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The Wreckage by Michael Robotham
Luca Terracini is a journalist living outside the safe-zone in Iraq during the year 2006. Luca is following a
story that scares other journalists. What happened to all the money hidden in Saddam’s Iraq and the money sent from the United States to rebuild the country? As he investigates, it seems that someone is does not want him to find the truth in this story. He is being constantly followed and it is obvious that someone is trying to kill him.
Vincent Ruiz discovers that he has been a victim of a scam. It begins with a young attractive couple who argue. The boy becomes physical and hits the girl. The victim, the target, witnesses this and sympathizes with the hurt girl. While talking with the girl, she discovers that her purse has also been stolen by the angered and now disappeared boyfriend. The girl is taken to the witnesses home where she can take advantage and steal the household valuables. However, someone kills the boyfriend and wants the girl dead. Why? Also Vincent needs one of the stolen items. His daughter is promised her mother’s comb on her wedding day which is quickly approaching.
Richard North, a vice-president of a bank, disappears. With a pregnant wife, a young son, and marrying into this banking family, he is the obvious scape-goat for money missing from the bank. Obviously, this missing man could be dead. The frantic wife hires a private investigator. What happens to him? Read the rest of this entry »

