Jules Carlisle of Pauls Jenkins Solicitors takes on the case of Mirko Dragunovic against her better judgement. Mirko is an illegal immigrant, and claims that his brother is one of the eight asylum seekers found dead in a shallow grave on the beach near Kings Lynn. Jules does not deal with asylum seekers knowing very little about the subject, but there is no one else available, and Mirko is clearly in great distress., and she is concerned fro his welfare.
Reluctant to take any personal details due to his illegal status , Jules is however intrigued by the fact that this man who has a Masters Degree in biochemistry is working on a farm in Norfolk picking lettuces. And by his knowledge of the human traffic operation that was bringing his brother to the UK. Through Mirko Jules meets Richard Allenton of MI5 and the owner of the farm Andrew Flowerdew.
Although Jenni Patel, her firm’s expert in the kind of matter, offers to take over the case, Jules feels that she should see the matter through, but where there are asylum seekers, there is politics, and sadly where there are politics it seems there is inevitably corruption. Jules has things in both her past and her present that could hurt not only herself but people she loves, and soon she finds her loyalties tested.
A moving book, providing an insight into the tangled web that is the problem
of needy people seeking asylum in this country.
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Lizzie Hayes
Detective Chief Inspector John McLeish and Francesca Wilson, civil servant have
appeared in 7 books so far - the most recent was O Gentle Death in 2000.
Under the name Janet Cohen there is one book - The Highest Bidder (1992)
.