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The Final Reckoning - Sam Bourne

Description: ISBN 0007266499 / Genre: Crime / Thriller / Author: Sam Bourne / Paperback / 576 Pages / Book is published 2008-08-04 by Harper

Newest Review: ... and earn himself big bucks. However when a seemingly innocent old man is killed walking into the UN in a case of mistaken ... more

... identity (the gunmen had been told the old man could be a terrorist threat) Tom is immediately contacted to help pull the UN out of a scandalous mess that could ruin their own impartial role in world events. However as Tom investigates the case, flying out to visit the daughter of the deceased he discovers that this man was not who he seemed. In fact he was a Holocaust survivor something which if brought into the open would make the situation even worse for the UN. Tom desperately tries to coerce the mans daughte...more

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The Final Reckoning - Sam Bourne: A thriller based around real events (392 words)
by - written on 08/10/09 (Very useful, 4 readings)
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Having just completed a course on Holocaust literature I thought I would get away from it and enjoy a more casual, fictional novel - How wrong I was with this book! I had no idea from the back cover that this would involve a detailed insight into the Holocaust, the Jewish ghettos and some of the repurcussions of it. To start off with I will round up the synopsis of the novel. Tom Byrne is a former UN lawyer currently working for the mafia to tidy up lawsuits and earn himself big bucks. However when a seemingly innocent old man is killed walking into the UN in a case of mistaken identity (the gunmen had been told the old man could be a terrorist threat) Tom is ... Read the complete review

I reckon you'll like this (632 words)
by - written on 04/09/09 (Very useful, 28 readings)
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The Final Reckoning has to be one of the best books I have ever read, if not the best book I've ever read. Synopsis ******* The book begins outside the United Nations building in New York where a suspected suicide bomber is shot by one of the UN's security staff. However when the bomber is turned over its revealed to be a harmless old man who seems to have been in the wrong place at the wrong time. Tom Byrne was once a lawyer for the UN, his ex boss asks him if he will represent the UN in attempting to placate the old man's family. Tom travels to London in order to talk with the old man's daughter, while in London he finds that the ... Read the complete review

The Final Reckoning - Sam Bourne: It's Time For The Final Reckoning (594 words)
by - written on 08/02/09 (Very useful, 130 readings)
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When an NYPD terror suspect steps foot on to UN property in New York the UN security take the warning seriously and shoot the suspect. Instead of a terror suspect however, they have shot 77 year old British tourist Gerald Merton. The UN turn to one of their former employees, lawyer Tom Byrne to go to England and make peace with Merton's daughter Rebecca. Once in England with Rebecca things start to unfold that hint that Gerald Merton wasn't quite as innocent as he made out, some shocking revelations are about to spill forward. I actually bought this book thinking it was a totally different author and lead character. Having read Sam Bourne's debut novel The ... Read the complete review