#BlogTour – #BookReview of #DeathFlight by Sarah Sultoon @SultoonSarah @OrendaBooks @RandomTTours #RandomThingsTours #JonnyMurphyFiles #Argentina

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February 27

I'm thrilled to welcome you today to my stop on the blog tour for powerful political thriller Death Flight (Jonny Murphy Book 2) by Sarah Sultoon. Thank you to Anne Cater and Orenda Books for giving me the opportunity to read and review this outstanding book.

About the book:

Argentina. 1998. Human remains are found on a beach on the outskirts of Buenos Aires - a gruesome echo of when the tide brought home dozens of mutilated bodies thrown from planes during Argentina's Dirty War. Flights of death, with passengers known as The Disappeared.

International Tribune reporter Jonny Murphy is in Buenos Aires interviewing families of the missing, desperate to keep their memory alive, when the body turns up. His investigations with his companion, freelance photographer Paloma Glenn, have barely started when Argentina's simmering financial crisis explodes around them.

As the fabric of society starts to disintegrate and Argentine cities burn around them, Jonny and Paloma are suddenly thrust centre stage, fighting to secure both their jobs and their livelihoods.

But Jonny is also fighting something else, an echo from his own past that he'll never shake, and as it catches up with him and Paloma, he must make choices that will endanger everything he knows…

About the author:

Sarah Sultoon is a journalist and writer, whose work as an international news executive at CNN has taken her all over the world, from the seats of power in both Westminster and Washington to the frontlines of Iraq and Afghanistan. She has extensive experience in conflict zones, winning three Peabody awards for her work on the war in Syria, an Emmy for her contribution to the coverage of Europe's migrant crisis in 2015, and a number of Royal Television Society gongs. When not reading or writing she can usually be found somewhere outside, either running, swimming or throwing a ball for her three children and dog …

Her debut thriller The Source is currently in production with Lime Pictures, and was a Capital Crime Book Club pick and a number one bestseller on Kindle. The Shot (2022) and Dirt (2023) followed, with multiple award longlistings, including the CWA Daggers. Sarah currently works for Channel 4 News and lives in London.

My Review:

Death Flight is the stunning new political thriller by former CNN international news executive Sarah Sultoon. Second in the Jonny Murphy Files series of books, it is an intelligent and thought provoking page turner of a read that really does move along at a cracking pace.

Beginning in Argentina in 1998, when mutilated human remains are washed up on a beach on the outskirts of Buenos Aries, it brings to mind Argentina's Dirty War and the Flights of death, where dozens of mutilated bodies were thrown from planes into the ocean below.

International Tribune reporter Jonny Murphy is in Buenos Aries to cover the looming financial crisis, but soon gets drawn into interviewing families of 'The Disappeared' who, twenty years after losing them, are trying to keep the memory of their missing children alive.

As the simmering financial crisis reaches boiling point, Jonny and freelance photographer Paloma Glenn try to uncover the truth of what happened to the missing babies. But as riots take hold and the city begins to burn around them, Jonny and Paloma find themselves in ever increasing danger, fighting for something that goes far deeper and is much more personal than either of them at first realised. Not sure who, if anyone, he can trust, will Jonny be able to get the truth out there before he is caught and his voice is silenced for good?

Sarah Sultoon's writing is as sharp as ever as this taut, chilling political thriller is brought vividly to life. Like Dirt before it, Death Flight is a dark and complex thriller that reveals its secrets slowly. A historically accurate and authentic tale of political unrest that is as thought provoking as it is exciting, I found myself once again completely invested in the character of Jonny as his life started to become even more intertwined with that of Paloma, the freelance photographer who he is beginning to see as more than just a work colleague…

Death Flight is an adrenaline fuelled and exciting thriller with Sarah Sultoon, as always, drawing from her considerable experience as a CNN executive to deliver a powerful and intense political thriller that drew me in from the very first page and refused to let go until the final, exhilarating page had been turned.

A powerfully written and hard hitting read, Death Flight is a political thriller I honestly can't recommend highly enough. Sarah Sultoon's writing just keeps on getting better and better and I can't wait to read whatever she comes up with next.

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