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Canadian Woman: Compromises Efforts and Justin Trudeau

canadian woman: The invisible line along the Aegean Sea that separates Turkey from Greece, and lures Syrian refugees into smugglers' boats by night, is also what sets the plot of A Dangerous Crossing in motion Audrey Clare, a Canadian woman operating an NGO on Lesvos, has gone missing, leaving behind two bodies killed with her gun A French Interpol agent and a young Syrian man named Sami, according to Rabble. Khattak and his partner, Sergeant Rachel Getty, are dispatched by the prime minister unnamed in this book, but unmistakeably modelled after Justin Trudeau to solve the mystery and find Audrey before word of her disappearance gets out and compromises efforts to resettle Syrians in Canada. Inspector Esa Khattak, Khan's protagonist and detective, sees the suspect identified on slogans spray painted on a concrete barrier outside a refugee camp in Chios, Greece no borders, no borders, no borders, the prayer of the stateless. Thus begins the fifth book in Khan's Community Policing series, a novel with a compelling premise and several intriguing moments but which nevertheless falters in its execution. At bottom, mystery novels tend to combine the pleasures of plotting and suspense with social critique, in that through solving a crime, the hero-detective also often exposes corruption the killer is the scion of a wealthy family; the murder is part of an extensive cover-up; the helpful bystander is in on the crime. With A Dangerous Crossing, Khan follows a similar formula to her other Khattak-Getty novels by wedding the conventions of a mystery novel to a social justice-oriented critique of globalization and power. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.