The Eyewitness by Stephen Leather (Epub)

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Working in the fractured remains of Yugoslavia, his task is to identify the victims of ethnic cleansing and to tell families that their loved ones are never coming home.

Years of toiling in the killing fields have desensitised the former London policeman to the horrors of war, but when a truck containing twenty-six bodies is pulled from a lake, Solomon is unable to walk away from the case.

He sets out to track down the only survivor of the massacre, a young girl on the run from the killers. Solomon’s hunt for the last witness takes him from the brothels of Sarajevo to the high-stakes world of London’s internet prostitution – where he will discover that the killers are closer to home than he thinks . . .

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Stephen Leather is one of the UK’s most successful thriller writers, an ebook and Sunday Times bestseller and author of the critically acclaimed Dan ‘Spider’ Shepherd series and the Jack Nightingale supernatural detective novels. Before becoming a novelist he was a journalist for more than ten years on newspapers such as The Times, the Daily Mirror, the Glasgow Herald, the Daily Mail and the South China MorningPost in Hong Kong. He is one of the country’s most successful ebook authors and his titles have topped the Amazon Kindle charts in the UK and the US. His bestsellers have been translated into fifteen languages and he has also written for television.You can learn more from Stephen’s website, www.stephenleather.com, find him on Facebook, and follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/stephenleather.Stephen also has a website for his Spider Shepherd series, www.danspidershepherd.com, and for his Jack Nightingale series, www.jacknightingale.com.

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⭐ “… (Solomon) reckoned that sitting in a car with an Albanian pimp, his bodyguard and two heavily armed Croatian thugs on he way to a shoot-out in a Bosnian brothel would make anyone nervous.”Such is the approaching moment of truth for Jack Solomon, an investigator employed with the International War-dead Commission in the Balkans. Jack’s job is to coordinate the identification by DNA of the bodies of civilians killed in the ethnic cleansing atrocities in Kosovo and Bosnia, and then notify surviving family members. Jack’s latest case involves twenty-six Bosnian Muslims – men, women and children from the same extended family – found locked in the back of a refrigerator truck at the bottom of a lake. Death had been by suffocation some three years previous. But the chill of the lake had preserved the bodies perfectly, and Solomon takes the presence among the dead of an eighteen-month old girl, still clutching her teddy bear, hard. Further investigation indicates that one member of the clan survived, sixteen-year old Nicoletta. Jack’s self-imposed mission is to track her down so she can testify before the War Crimes Tribunal. But the girl has run, apparently disappearing into the dark world of indentured prostitution. After Jack runs afoul of one of the region’s most vicious and powerful criminal bosses, his boss sends him back to the safety of London, where, as chance would have it, Nicoletta is now an escort agency hooker.THE EYEWITNESS is a fascinating look at the callous, and sometimes appallingly vicious, business of international trafficking in prostitutes. Author Stephen Leather’s description of the London sex-for-money scene, from the girls working out of the traditional Soho walk-ups to the burgeoning Web-based outcall/incall enterprises, is comprehensive. Research in depth, I’d say.While Solomon is undeniably the Good Guy in this thriller, and there are also Bad Guys depraved enough to make your skin crawl, perhaps some of the most interesting characters are those falling somewhere in between in the most unexpected ways. Indeed, there’s a plot twist at the end that was completely unexpected.In the Acknowledgements, Leather thanks working girls “Angela, Francesca, Jessica, Kim and Sophie” for their insights into the flesh trade. Perhaps it’s from them that one of the author’s characters, Inga, leaves us the message:”I chose this life. I wasn’t forced into it … We do what we must to survive … and we make the best of it.” I think that those words could come from any of us, especially from myself as I drive into the 9 to 5 that I sometimes abhor.

⭐ perhaps the situation resolved itself but I stopped reading. I’m not into self hate books. Seems as if the group responsible for the problem was given a pass. Maybe the book didn’t end up that way but I was not willing to invest any more time with this story. My money lost was enough.

⭐ A captivating read

⭐ Typical Stephen Leather, always interesting with a good story line. Also provides an insight into worlds we are not acquainted with..

⭐ Stephen Leather continues to please and create great characters and story lines in various settings. The eye witness was not my immediate choice when I was previewing my nest read but then went for it based on it being set in Eastern Europe and with an unusual lead character.

⭐ If you want good reliable yarns then Mr leather is the man. he keeps the momentum right to the end.

⭐ Stephen leather is one of those authors where I read one book and I immediately beginning tracking down all others by the same author. I’ve read about a dozen of Stephen Leather’s books now, and I’ve got a couple more ready to go.I’m lucky. He hasn’t written a dud yet so I know I’ve got some good reading ahead of me.His books are all reasonably similar. Crime, undercover work, elite force veterans, prisons, drug or weapons trading, exotic locations. You can be reasonably sure that three or four of these themes will pop up in one of his novels, along with a good, tension-filled, twisty plot, full of the sort of details that you and I aren’t likely to encounter in our daily rounds.The Eyewitness doesn’t disappoint. One of his best yarns, I thought. You’ve got to like the protagonist, a man with a mission, a man with a desire for justice, a man with a heart.He stands out in a world where very few share his views.The plot involves a search for the sole eyewitness to a horrific crime of mass murder, and the search takes him from the Balkans to London and back again. He doesn’t give up, despite awesome obstacles and threats to life and limb, sometimes realised. Along the way we learn more about the seedy side of sex trafficking than we really want to.Five stars for this book. A book I loved, rather than just liked.Now excuse me, I’ve got a date with another Stephen leather thriller!

⭐ Jack Solomon works for an aid organization in Sarajevo. His job is to identify the remains of the many dead bodies- the casualties of the war. The work is quite grisly, yet, with the use of DNA, the work gets done. One day Jack is asked to look into the remains of twenty six bodies found in a truck at the bottom of a lake. The bodies have been in place for years, yet, the frigid waters have preserved them remarkably well. A young child clutching a teddy bear is among the victims. The horrific nature of the crimes gets to Jack above all others. He insists on trying to solve the crime and does so by searching for the one surviving relative. His search takes him to the criminal underworld of Sarajevo, as well as, the red light district of London and encounters with the Russian Mafia. For a thriller, Stephen Leather’s books have a languid pacing. They are character rich works that delve into whatever locale they are set. There is much local color interjected in the work. Once the topic is discussed and the plot is truly underway, the pacing begins to pick up quite rapidly. The climactic scene is literally quite explosive. The red herring at the end of the book is a bit farfetched and the conclusion a bit less than satisfying. Consider Stephen Leather’s books to be thinking man’s thriller more along the lines of LeCarre than Ludlum or Higgins.

⭐ This is a dark journey which explores war, ethnic cleansing, atrocities, people trafficing and prostitution. In fact it quickly becomes clear through this novel that they are often linked. Atrocities create orphans, orphans need jobs, pimps prey on orphans to turn them into prostitutes and they are trafficed around europe illegally as “language students” to get the best price.It is a gruesome and viceral journey, graphic in many cases, which I wasnt expecting. I did not give it 5 only because I wasn’t sure that I wanted to go where the journey led but there was plenty of food for thought along the way.It dovetails nicely with the evidence of the UK’s disasterous “no border control at all” of successive governments which has allowed foreign criminals to set up huge vice empires in our country.A strong stomach is needed.

⭐ Jack Solomon is working in the Balkans, helping forensically identify the victims of the many brutal massacres from the civil war in Yugoslavia. With the chance finding of a possible eyewitness, he hopes to be able to bring at least one or maybe some of the perpetrators to justice. The trail leads to London and the murky worlds of prostitution and people trafficking. Leather writes gritty, violent and visceral thrillers. He seems to have a great deal of interest in `Ladies of the Night’ but maybe it’s just local colour? I’ve read a few of his and this is mid-range – a little bit predictable. Good quick read for fans but not great. Three or four stars? Upper three, heading for four.

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