Capital Punishment

Late one night, a very drunk young woman named Alyshia D'Cruz leaves a going-away party for a co-worker. A friend puts her into a London taxi. But instead of taking her home, the cabbie turns her over to a gang of kidnappers. Alyshia's father, Frank, was once a very famous Bollywood movie star. Now h......more

I do like Robert Wilson. His writing is always elegant and intelligent. Capital Punishment is no exception ; a kidnap thriller that explores the dark territory between big business, the underworld and terrorism. Charles Boxer is a great new character : ex-military , a former murder squad detective an......more

This is an interesting novel, if not always for the reasons Wilson hoped. It had me thinking back to my experience reading the new Richard Price novel, The Whites. Price admitted that he wrote that novel under the pen name Harry Brandt because, strapped for cash, he needed to write a pot-boiler that......more

Robert Wilson is a gifted writer and if you have not yet read any of his books your are missing some really good ones! Starting with The Company of Strangers which is set in 1944 war torn Lisbon with a female spy as the lead character, to A Small Death in Lisbon whose main character is a police dete......more

Já eram muitas as saudades de ler um bom policial. Pena Capital foi-me muito recomendado e esperava na estante há demasiado tempo. Correspondeu exactamente às minhas expectativas, encontrei o esperado estilo sofisticado de Robert Wilson, a sua escrita cheia de classe que eleva o policial para outro p......more