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Traffyck: Book Two in the Lazlo Horvath Thriller Series

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Michael Beres writes beautifully, with just enough detail to "see" Ukraine's urban and rural areas. If you've read Beres' previous book Chernobyl Murders, this book punches you in the gut in its first pages, and then speeds you through post-Soviet Ukraine and its seemingly profound corruption.

In Chicago, adult video store owner Ukrainian expatriate Viktor Patolichev dies in an arson fire at his shop. His wife of one month, retired stripper Mariya Nemeth cannot truly grieve until she knows whether her spouse set the fire to collect insurance money or if his human trafficking activity back in the Ukraine led to him being murdered.

Mariya hires private investigator Lazlo Horvath to obtain the stateside truths while he also employs Kiev-based PI Janos Nagy to learn more about her spouse's former Ukrainian partners. Two thugs beat up Mariya, making it clear they want the inquiries ended. However, the Ukrainian-American and her two detectives keep investigating which leads them inside the exclusion dead zone surrounding Chernobyl.

This dark investigative tale is a well written, very heated (literally that is) but depressing thriller that takes readers on a tour inside the dead zone that will shock readers to the core. The lead trio is a fabulous teaming as they investigate the death of a person with one hell of a history. Fans will enjoy Lazlo's return home to the place where his brother died when the plant exploded (see CHERNOBYL MURDERS).

Harriet Klausner