![]() Face to face, he felt a strange kinship with the emaciated, shaven-headed psychiatric patient, because he recognized the same craving for order in himself. “Strike, who had met countless rootless and neglected children during his rackety, unstable childhood, recognized in Billy’s imploring expression a last plea to the adult world, to do what grown-ups were meant to do, and impose order on chaos, substitute sanity for brutality. As in the past, Strike’s willingness to address Billy’s concerns places into relief his character as a champion of the downtrodden, as well as his disgust and impatience with his usual client pool of “the mistrustful, endlessly betrayed rich”: Strike is also unable to resist taking on the case of a mentally unbalanced and impoverished man, Billy Knight, who claims he has witnessed a murder. He does know who is behind it though, and hires Strike to find out “dirt” on his would-be blackmailers so he can turn the tables on them. They are hired by Jasper Chiswell, a minister in the House of Commons, who says he is being blackmailed, although he doesn’t feel the need to disclose the reason for it. ![]() ![]() In this installment, the personal problems of Strike and Robin are deftly woven into the development of their newest cases. Robin is the assistant to, and business partner of, Cormoran Strike in a private detective firm. It begins immediately after the previous book, Career of Evil, ended, i.e., at the wedding of Robin Ellacott. ![]() Rowling using the pen-name of Robert Galbraith. ![]() This is the fourth book in the very entertaining detective series by J.K. ![]()
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