A Line in the Sand – Kevin Powers

Set some time after the Iraqi invasion and occupation, it features a Kurdish former military translator given a fast-track visa to the US as protection for a video he made of a massacre carried out by military contractors. His discovery of a body on the beach gets the attention of a Norfolk detective and leads to a young reporter who is following a story on the chief of an organization about to  get a $2 billion government contract. Bodies begin to pile up and Powers keeps the tension high, alternating action between several recurring groups of characters with no obvious connection who seem to be converging. Despite our best instincts, Powers nearly makes us party to the moral ambiguity of rough justice administered to highly placed, powerful, “untouchables.”

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