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Peter James
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ISBN | 978-023070686 | ||
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Vicky
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Synopsis
Lynn gripped the sides of the armchair, trying to put aside her own inner terror. 'I can't believe I'm thinking this, Ross. I'm not a violent person, even before Caitlin's influence, I never even liked killing flies in my kitchen. Now I'm sitting here actually willing some stranger to die'. The body of a teenager dredged from the seabed off the coast of Sussex is found to be missing its vital organs. Soon two more young bodies are found. Caitlin Beckett, a fifteen-year-old in Brighton, will die if she does not receive an urgent liver transplant. When the health system threatens to let her down, Lynn, her mother, turns in panic to the internet and discovers a broker who can provide her with a black-market organ - but at a price. As Superintendent Roy Grace investigates the recovered bodies, he unearths the trail of a gang of child traffickers operating from Eastern Europe. Soon Grace and his team will find themselves in a race against time to save the life of a young street kid, while a desperate mother will stop at nothing to save her daughter's life.
Peter James
Review
Dead Tomorrow is a book with a difference - it's based on a reality and that is, we need more transplant organs in this country to supply the need. But who do we turn to when there are none to behad to save our loved ones from certain death?
What would I have done, as a mother of five grown up children if one of them had been seriously ill and needed a liver transplant? Lynn's daughter Caitlin has a serious liver problem and as a 14 year old need's a transplant. Would I have gone the route of Lynn if the NHS didn't have a suitable transplant liver for my daughter quick enough? But would I be desperate enough to save my child and in the process kill another? It is a difficult question to answer, and morally I would say no, but faced with the situation would I be willing to believe an international transplant broker that the organ came from a dead person - or for that matter a live person donating for money to feed his/her family?
These were the thoughts that that milled around my mind as I read Peter James' brilliant 5th Roy Grace book 'Dead Tomorrow'. Just what would I do!
I was gripped from the 1st page and very moved by it and deeply felt for Lynn, her daughter Caitlin and for the Romanian child Saloma and her friends. I wanted to know who would live and die and how Roy Grace would solve this mystery of the dead teenagers and their missing organs.
I personally believe that this is perhaps the best book that Peter James has written to date and I have read many of his books in the past as well. I highly recommend this book and I now feel we should have the opt out scenario for people of this country and not be left in the Lynn and Caitlin situation of chance or luck waiting for an organ donor on the NHS.
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