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Breaking point [text (large print)] / Frank Smith.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Smith, Frank, DCI Neil Paget mystery ; | Smith, Frank, DCI Neil Paget ; | Smith, Frank, DCI Neil Paget ; 06.Publication details: Sutton : Severn House Large Print, 2009.Edition: Large print editionDescription: 367 pages (large print) ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780727877697 (hbk.)
  • 0727877690 (hbk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Subject: When DCI Neil Paget and DS Tregalles investigate an apparently standard missing person case, it soon emerges that Mark Newman, an aspiring journalist, was on the trail of a hot story, and now hes disappeared, along with every scrap of potential evidence... But as bodies start to pile up, Paget is struggling to keep his mind on the job, given the erratic behaviour and unexplained absences of his new live-in lover.
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The new DCI Neil Paget mystery - When DCI Neil Paget and DS Tregalles investigate an apparently standard missing person case, it soon emerges that Mark Newman, an aspiring journalist, was on the trail of a hot story, and now hes disappeared, along with every scrap of potential evidence . . . But as bodies start to pile up, Paget is struggling to keep his mind on the job, given the erratic behaviour and unexplained absences of his new live-in lover . . .

Originally published: Sutton: Severn House, 2008.

When DCI Neil Paget and DS Tregalles investigate an apparently standard missing person case, it soon emerges that Mark Newman, an aspiring journalist, was on the trail of a hot story, and now hes disappeared, along with every scrap of potential evidence... But as bodies start to pile up, Paget is struggling to keep his mind on the job, given the erratic behaviour and unexplained absences of his new live-in lover.

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Publishers Weekly Review

DCI Neil Paget investigates a missing-persons case in this workmanlike entry in Smith's police procedural series (Acts of Vengeance, etc.). Mark Newman, a jack-of-all-trades who aspires to be a journalist, vanishes after a covert meeting in a generic English pub about a potential story. When Paget learns that Newman's informant, Mickey Doyle, has also disappeared, he concludes that someone attempting to conceal the secret that Doyle stumbled onto has killed them both. Paget's team's efforts soon come closer to the truth than the National Criminal Intelligence Service would like, triggering a jurisdictional dispute that threatens to prevent justice for the missing men. A prologue detailing Newman's failed surveillance of a secluded farmhouse leaves little suspense about his fate. In addition, instead of Paget's uncovering the story Newman was pursuing, an NCIS official simply recounts it to him late in the book. (June) Copyright 2008 Reed Business Information.

Booklist Review

The latest entry in Smith's excellent Neil Paget series injects the British police procedural with a real jolt of energy. This time Paget and his team investigate the mysterious disappearance of local handyman and wannabe journalist Mark Newman. When his housemate reports Newman missing, Paget is inclined simply to file a perfunctory mis-per report, but when Newman's van is discovered at the bottom of a quarry, and another local man, apparently the last person Newman spoke to before he disappeared, is found dead, Paget knows he has a real case on his hands. After multiple dead ends have been steered around, and just as the case seems about to break wide open, Paget and his team are summarily told to drop their investigation, setting up some genuinely surprising plot twists. In Smith's talented hands, the procedural formula extends well beyond meticulous description of police work to embrace the kind of plotting pyrotechnics that distinguishes high-concept thrillers. Procedural buffs will find plenty of detail here to please them, but those who enjoy a little Ridley Pearson pizzazz will also be satisfied.--Melton, Emily Copyright 2008 Booklist

Kirkus Book Review

A budding journalist disappears while chasing a story about dark doings in the English countryside. After two weeks of running police training courses on race relations and sensitivity, DCI Neil Paget (Acts of Vengeance, 2003, etc.) wants nothing more than to get back to investigating crimes. But his boss has something different in mind. Sir Robert, the chief constable, has gotten a worried call from his niece, so Superintendent Alcott sends Paget to Whitcott Lacey to interview Emma Baker of Whitcott Agricultural College about the disappearance of her housemate Mark Newman, a journalism student who took her camera without permission and went off in his van two days ago. At first Paget thinks he has better things to do, like figuring out why his live-in girlfriend Grace Lovett is so reluctant to give up the apartment she never uses. But when Mickey Boyle, who had been talking animatedly to Newman in the local pub days before the student went missing, suddenly leaves for Ireland in the company of two thuggish-looking blokes, it seems that there may be a real crime after all. And indeed before it's over the National Criminal Intelligence Service will assure Paget that the crime is very real indeed. What begins as a routine police procedural somehow morphs into an tale of international intrigue without ever losing its taste for the mundane or the obvious. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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