A Piece of Blue Sky by Mark HaydenMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Having read all of the King's Watch books currently published I decided to go back to the start, where we first meet Conrad Clarke, before he got involved in magic.
Squadron Leader Conrad Clarke is running some kind of illegal operations in Afghanistan, when one of the men wants out another member of the team injures him badly setting off a train of events that result in two men dead in a helicopter crash, a murder dressed up like a suicide, and Conrad airlifted to hospital in the UK with severe injuries to his leg.
When Conrad is well enough his former bosses in the illegal transactions want him to help ferret out someone who is double-crossing the Essex side of Operation Blue Sky.
Meanwhile, Detective Tom Morton, working for the Money Laundering Intelligence Unit in the City of London receives a tip-off from a young banking trainee that her immediate supervisor has signed off on documentation which she knows contains false information, leading him to suspicions of monely laundering. His cousin Kate Morton was in Afghanistan and dating one of the men who died as part of Clarke's cover-up, she wants to fnd out the truth about his death and is pursuing Clarke for answers.
Together Tom and Kate have two separate pieces of intelligence about Operation Blue Sky and their digging could lead to it all unravelling.
As many other reviewers have said, this is nothing like the King's Watch series. Conrad is definitely one of the bad guys here, but we do get to see him meet Mina for the first time with her husband Miles.
If you like a good detective story where sometimes the criminals are also the heroes (we mean you Conrad) then I think you'll like this, although it might be difficult to follow as it bounces around between Conrad, Tom and Kate's POV.
On to the next one.
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