The Torment of Others (Tony Hill and Carol Jordan): Book 4

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Even when the president was finally compelled, as the damage to America's reputation everywhere in the world widened and deepened, to use the ''sorry'' word, the focus of regret still seemed the damage to America's claim to moral superiority. Yes, President Bush said in Washington on May 6, standing alongside King Abdullah II of Jordan, he was ''sorry for the humiliation suffered by the Iraqi prisoners and the humiliation suffered by their families.'' But, he went on, he was ''equally sorry that people seeing these pictures didn't understand the true nature and heart of America.''

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Carl rapes Paula, Carol and her team hunt for Paula, and Tony suspects that a police officer is controlling Derek and Carl as only someone involved with this sting could have sabotaged it. Tony confronts Sergeant Jan Shields, who has been using mind manipulation to make others kill because she's a control freak.Tony Hill and Carol Jordan – what an odd pair, but they complement each other as they work criminal investigations. Hill, a criminal psychologist and profiler, has recently quit his job in academia and has returned to treating patients serving sentences for violent crimes. After much soul searching, DCI Carol Jordan has taken a position leading a team in one of her old districts. This involves looking at cold cases, and in THE TORMENT OF OTHERS, Carol and Tony team up to work on two dead-end cases of boys who went missing without a trace. Just as Carol’s crew of investigators begin to dig into the files, a prostitute is found brutally murdered. To have the American effort in Iraq summed up by these images must seem, to those who saw some justification in a war that did overthrow one of the monster tyrants of modern times, ''unfair.'' A war, an occupation, is inevitably a huge tapestry of actions. What makes some actions representative and others not? The issue is not whether the torture was done by individuals (i.e., ''not by everybody'') -- but whether it was systematic. Authorized. Condoned. All acts are done by individuals. The issue is not whether a majority or a minority of Americans performs such acts but whether the nature of the policies prosecuted by this administration and the hierarchies deployed to carry them out makes such acts likely. What about “the odd couple”? It is quite obvious that Carol and Tony work well together when they are teamed up to catch criminals. It is also pretty clear that they love each other. They question is, what, if anything, will they do about it?

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The second case involving the discovery of a paedophile and their apprehension was also bundled and again wasn't quite believable. A dead woman discovered in a sexual position on a bloody mattress, appears to be the victim of a killer the team knows all about: the monstrous Derek Tyler, who had carried out similarly bloody work two years before. However, forensics have landed Tyler in a mental institution--does this mean that Hill and Jordan are searching for a murderer who is copying the techniques of the psychotic Tyler? The latest outing for Hill, The Torment of Others, also features McDermid's other richly realised creation, DCI Carol Jordan, and the author carries her familiar protagonists into truly unsettling new areas. This time, Hill is coping with a return to practical clinical profiling after a frustrating spell as an academic. And there's another major complication for him: his ex-partner Carol Jordan is no longer sure she wishes to be in charge of a team after the brutal sexual assault she suffered during undercover work. But she is persuaded to do so--and realises that one of her main tasks will be to create a cohesive unit.Forget about solving all these crimes; the signal triumph here is (spoiler) the heroine’s survival. Serial killers are thankfully rare. It is a tribute to the power of Val McDermid's imagination that she made this one seem so believable' Daily Telegraph But the real push to limit the accessibility of the photographs will come from the continuing effort to protect the administration and cover up our misrule in Iraq -- to identify ''outrage'' over the photographs with a campaign to undermine American military might and the purposes it currently serves. Just as it was regarded by many as an implicit criticism of the war to show on television photographs of American soldiers who have been killed in the course of the invasion and occupation of Iraq, it will increasingly be thought unpatriotic to disseminate the new photographs and further tarnish the image of America. I feel that the italicized sections from the murderer's point of view added nothing much to the narrative. They didn’t give any clues to the identity, nor did they give me much insight into behavior. They actually disrupted the story for me. Much of THE TORMENT OF OTHERS is centred around DCI Jordan’s activities to catch the person responsible for murdering two prostitutes. We know from the beginning who the actual killer is and that he is a low-intelligent “puppet” controlled by The Voice — a person controlling the puppet’s actions. Tony begins to suspect that there is someone manipulating the killer but he has no proof and when he finally pulls together a profile on the type of manipulation that he suspects is occurring, Carol, for once, rejects his reasoning.

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McDermid’s capacity to enter the warped mind of a deviant criminal is shiveringly convincing’ The Times The main characters are compelling and believable. They are complex and McDermid makes them and the environment of the story come to life with careful attention to details. This is a disturbing, high-tension book, unstinting in its portrayals of psychological distress. One of McDermid’s finest, which is saying a lot. Condition: Gut. Reprint. 395 S. in gutem Zustand 26894 ISBN 9780312936099 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 204 mass_market, Maße: 10.72 cm x 2.87 cm x 17.09 cm. Forgotten the title or the author of a book? Our BookSleuth is specially designed for you. Visit BookSleuthThe inner workings and more than camaraderie of the police dept. are the focus in this story. This holds especially true when one of their own is abducted. the author held my attention during the first third of this book and the last third. The middle made the story a bit too drawn out. Although the end result was stunning.

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Book Genre: British Literature, Crime, Detective, European Literature, Fiction, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Psychology, Suspense, ThrillerDespite the lousy characterization, a thriller can definitely redeem itself by having a rolling and twisting plot. To my surprise, it's not the case in this book. The dual plot lines strangely not intertwine in the end and the case about the missing child is just nothing more than a boring filler lasted for nearly half of the book. Another half concerning the serial hooker killer is comparatively more compelling considering there are more actions and development, but its pace oddly slows down in the middle of the book and given the distraction of the excruciating other half, its satisfactory ending just comes too little too late.