A Dangerous Crossing, Ausma Zehanat Khan
A Dangerous Crossing, Ausma Zehanat Khan
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A Dangerous Crossing
A Novel

Author: Ausma Zehanat Khan

Narrator: Peter Ganim

Unabridged: 11 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/13/2018


Synopsis

"Engaging from the first chapter, Khan's novel provides a startling introduction to the Syrian refugee crisis, with characters, dialogue, and tragedies that come alive in audio. Using nuanced intonations and a slow and steady style of narration, narrator Peter Ganim's presentation is impeccable." — AudioFile Magazine

From the critically acclaimed author of The Unquiet Dead comes a devastatingly powerful new thriller audiobook that will stay with listeners long after the final track. A Dangerous Crossing by Ausma Zehanat Khan is haunting, disturbing, and thoroughly captivating.

For Inspector Esa Khattak and Sergeant Rachel Getty, the Syrian refugee crisis is about to become personal. Esa’s childhood friend, Nathan Clare, calls him in distress: his sister, Audrey, has vanished from a Greek island where the siblings run an NGO. Audrey had been working to fast-track refugees to Canada, but now, she is implicated in the double-murder of a French Interpol agent and a young man who had fled the devastation in Syria.

Esa and Rachel arrive in Greece to a shocking scene, witnessing for themselves the massive fallout of the Syrian war in the wretched refugee camps. Tracing Audrey’s last movements, they meet some of the volunteers and refugees—one of whom, Ali, is involved in a search of his own, for a girl whose disappearance may be connected to their investigation. The arrival of Sehr Ghilzai—a former prosecutor who now handles refugee claims for Audrey’s NGO—further complicates the matter for Esa, as his feelings towards her remain unresolved.

Working against time, with Interpol at their heels, Esa and Rachel follow a trail that takes them from the beaches of Greece, to the Turkish–Syrian border, and across Europe, reaching even the corridors of power in the Netherlands. Had Audrey been on the edge of a dangerous discovery, hidden at the heart of this darkest of crises—one which ultimately put a target on her own back?

About Ausma Zehanat Khan

AUSMA ZEHANAT KHAN holds a Ph.D. in international human rights law with a specialization in military intervention and war crimes in the Balkans. She is the author of the award-winning Esa Khattak and Rachel Getty mystery series, which begins with The Unquiet Dead, as well as the critically acclaimed Khorasan Archives fantasy quartet. Her new crime series, featuring Detective Inaya Rahman, debuted with Blackwater Falls. Blood Betrayal, her follow-up novel, won the Colorado Book Award and was a Finalist for the WILLA Literary Award for Multiform Fiction. Ausma is also a contributor to the anthologies Private Investigations, Sword Stone Table, The Perfect Crime and A Thousand Nights. She is the founder of the Muslim Writers Index, and the author of the middle grade book, Ramadan. A British-born Canadian and former law professor, Ausma now lives in the Washington, D.C. area with her husband.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Esil on January 16, 2018

3.75 stars. I have read three of the four books in Ausma Zehanat Khan’s Getty and Khattak series, and I think A Dangerous Crossing was my favourite. Khan’s series is based in Toronto and always focuses on crimes that have a contemporary international facet. In this case, Getty and Khattak are called u......more

Goodreads review by Sue on February 17, 2018

In her latest novel, Khan's Canadian police duo are tasked by their Prime Minister with discovering what has happened to Audrey Clare, a Canadian citizen working with an NGO in Greece, helping Syrian refugees who have washed up on Greek islands. While she has been trying to help these people no one......more


Quotes

"Engaging from the first chapter, Khan's novel provides a startling introduction to the Syrian refugee crisis, with characters, dialogue, and tragedies that come alive in audio. Using nuanced intonations and a slow and steady style of narration, narrator Peter Ganim's presentation is impeccable. Whether reading a scene in an inhuman refugee camp or presenting conversations among officials searching for a lost emigré, Ganim never falters." -AudioFile

"Peter Ganim does a lovely job." -BookRiot