Blurb:
All fifteen-year-old
Marco Jameson wants is to become a Danish citizen and go to school like a
normal teenager. But his uncle Zola rules his former gypsy clan with an iron
fist. Revered as a god and feared as a devil, Zola forces the children of the
clan to beg and steal for his personal gain. When Marco discovers a dead
body—proving the true extent of Zola’s criminal activities—he goes on the run.
But his family members aren’t the only ones who’ll go to any lengths to keep
Marco silent…forever.
Meanwhile, the last
thing Detective Carl Mørck needs is for his assistants, Assad and Rose, to pick
up a missing persons case on a whim: Carl’s nemesis is his new boss, and he’s
saddled Department Q with an unwelcome addition. But when they learn that a
mysterious teen named Marco may have as much insight into the case as he has
fear of the police, Carl is determined to solve the mystery and save the boy.
Carl’s actions propel the trio into a case that extends from Denmark to Africa,
from embezzlers to child soldiers, from seemingly petty crime rings to the very
darkest of cover-ups.
Review by Rochelle Weber:
I would have loved to
have given The Marco Effect five roses, but it was full of head-hops—abrupt
changes of point-of-view. Otherwise, it was a nail-biting chase through Africa,
Copenhagen, and even a glimpse of Venezuela, with well-drawn characters. At the
center, we have a cop and a thief—strange bedfellows, at best, but oddly with
the same goal.
It is said that "the
death of a single butterfly in the Amazon rainforest can cause a typhoon in
Japan." In this case, Marco Jameson overhears his Uncle Zola planning to possibly
maim him, because he’s beginning to look too healthy to beg effectively on the
street. He learns the hit-and-run that left his adopted sister’s leg destroyed
was not an accident, and decides he does not want to suffer the same fate. So
he runs away from home and burrows in a hole near the grave of an animal. Marco
stays there all night until he’s sure his family’s search for him has moved
away from the area. Only, he’s not near the grave of an animal—he’s in the
grave of a man. He eludes his family for a few years, and then comes upon a
missing persons poster for a man called William Stark, and recognizes Stark as
the corpse with whom he shared that night in the grave. He decides he needs to
let the man’s daughter know what happened to him.
Meanwhile, Detective
Carl Mørck’s assistants, Assad and Rose, pick up the missing persons case of William
Stark. As the case takes them to the top of the Department of of Assistance,
which would be something like the Foreign Affairs office of our State
Department, and the top of one of the most respected banks in Denmark, they
keep running across Marco—and wondering what this fifteen year-old homeless boy
had to do with Stark. As he crosses paths with the police at one turn, his
uncle’s henchmen at the next, and hit men he doesn’t even recognize, Marco
tries to go deeper underground. He wants to flee Copenhagen, but he needs to do
two things first. Tell Stark’s daughter where the man is buried, and get to his
stash of saved-up escape money. But how can he manage to do either with the noose
tightening around him?
Again, The Marco Effect
was a great read except for the head-hops, which most readers probably wouldn’t
notice. I highly recommend this book.
Length:
496 Pages
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$27.95
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