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2000s: A high speed thriller which takes you deep into the heart of London’s underworld
The Distance
What you need to know before your trail
Karla used to have a very different life to the one she has now – free from danger and secrets and prisons. So when she is asked to delve back into her old life, you would think she would say no.
So why does she accept to dive headfirst back into a world she has tried to desperately avoid. Asked to break a hit man into a prison so he can then take out someone who isn’t officially there…
Just what kind of world did Karla live in and will she ever get out alive?
Travel Guide
Oh this is a fast paced and gritty side of London that you wont have seen before!
Set largely inside a prison (but not your usual kind) its a battle between good and evil which is blurred along every single edge as no one in the story can be described as clean or innocent.
Told in alternating chapters between Karla on the outside and Johanssen on the inside, the world of The Distance is a strange one and getting to know both sides makes the world wider, darker and a lot more fun.
On the outside we follow Klara and find out about her past and her mission and why the target on the inside is wanted dead.
“I’ve always known the past might hunt me down, despite all my precautions…”
At the same time, we follow Johanssen as he goes about finding his mark and setting up the hit. He gets to know his hit fairly well in the three weeks he is there and its in conversations between the two that the prison life is evoked in all its strangeness –
“You could call it a prison, but its like no other prison standing apart from the wall and the wire.
When Johannssen left two years ago it didn’t exist. It came only after the prison riots”
This is a world of hitmen and spies, blurred lines between good and evil and the grey parts in between. The scenes involving the prison – the nature of the prison how it works and operates on a day to day basis, how the target has no record of being there and how Karla is able to get a hitman inside its walls….
Graphic violence is part of this setting and so readers should be warned. The most horrific happen off the page but imagination is both a wonderful and hideous thing at times..
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