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2000s: Meet Janusz Kiszka, unofficial ‘fixer’ for East London’s Polish community
Where the Devil Can’t Go (Kiszka & Kershaw 1)
What you need to know before your trail
A naked girl has washed up on the banks of the River Thames. No one knows who she is but the only clue is a heart-shaped tattoo encircling two foreign names.
Janusz Kiszka, unofficial ‘fixer’ for East London’s Polish community already leads a complicated life but now things look set to get even more complicated still. His priest has asked him to track down a young waitress who has gone missing; a builder on the Olympics site owes him a pile of money; and he’s falling for married Kasia, Soho’s most strait-laced stripper.
And then, Janusz finds himself accused of murder by an ambitious young detective, Natalie Kershaw, and pursued by drug dealing gang members.
Forced to flee back to Gdansk, he is determined to find the real killer.
Travel Guide
London
Being one of the city’s Polish population, one of the top men in the community, brings with it a lot of responsibility and fame. The Stratford side of London is where many of the Poles live, and is Kiszka’s stomping ground. The Olympics is coming up and the region has a certain ‘charm’:
“After the Luftwaffe had flattened it, along with most of the EastEnd, the two planners had decided to recreate the town centre asa a poured concrete shopping mall on a giant three-lane roundabout. It reminded him of the stuff the Communists had crapped out all over Poland in the fifties and sixties.”
Poland
The author states in her acknowledgements that many of the historical events featured in the book are accurately described but that it is nevertheless a work of fiction. Downtown Gdansk is awash with history and buildings which illustrate that. Westerplatte in particular stands out for being the former military area and site of first World War II invasion now marked by a grand stone monument.
Follow more of the Solidarnosc story here
Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: Where the Devil Can’t Go (Kiszka & Kershaw 1)
Author/ Guide: Anya Lipska Destination: London, Gdańsk Departure Time : Early 2000s, 1990s
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