Owen Laukkanen: Criminal enterprise

Owen Laukkanen jatkaa jännärisarjaa, jossa poliisit jäljittävät väkivaltaisten pankkiryöstöjen tekijää: Criminal enterprise (Corvus, 2014; ISBN 978-1-78239-368-9).



Kirjassa vuorottelevat poliisin ja rikollisen näkökulmat, mikä toimii varsin hyvin. Teksti on yhtä sujuvaa ellei sujuvampaa kuin esikoisteoksessa, ja vaikka tarinassa on samankaltaisuutta teossarjan ensimmäisen osan kanssa, ei tämä kuitenkaan ole täysin aiemman kierrätystä.

FBI special agent Carla Windermere and Minnesota state investigator Kirk Stevens return in the second installment of this finger-burning series. From the outside, Carter Tomlin's life looks perfect: a big house, a pretty wife, two kids - a St. Paul success story. But Tomlin has a secret. He's lost his job, the bills are mounting, and that perfect life is hanging by a thread. Desperate, he robs a bank. Then he robs another.

As the red flags start to go up, FBI Special Agent Carla Windermere hones in on Tomlin from one direction, while Minnesota state investigator Kirk Stevens picks up the trail from another. The two cops haven't talked since their first case together, but that's all going to change very quickly. Because Carter Tomlin's decided he likes robbing banks. And it's not because of the money, not anymore. Tomlin has guns and a new taste for violence. And he's not quitting anytime soon.