The Migrant

The Migrant

By Paul Alkazraji

Genre:-Thriller, Contemporary Fiction

Pages:-175

Blurb:-Fascist populists, callous sex-traffickers and murderous mafia gangs-these were not what Pastor Jude Kilburn had expected to face when he moved to Albania. But when vulnerable 19-year-old Alban disappears from his poverty-stricken village to seek work in Greece, Jude has to undertake the perilous journey across the mountains to try and rescue him from the ruthless Athenian underworld. Accompanied by a volatile secret-service agent and reformed gangster, Jude soon finds himself struggling to keep everyone together as personal tensions rise and violent anti-austerity riots threaten to tear them apart and undermine the mission. Caught between cynical secret police and a brutal crime syndicate the fate of them all will be determined by a trafficked girl-but not everyone will make it home. The Migrant is a tense and vocative thriller with a powerful redemptive twist.

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My Review:-My first thought when I saw the cover was old western movies with John Wayne, Clint Eastwood. Paster Jude an Englishman Christian, a quite and peaceful man and a husband to his pregnant wife Alex, has been working in the Albanian church. He decide to illegally enter Greece with two other men to rescue Alban, Alban once belong to the church. Luan a secret service agent, as well as being Alban's uncle and Mehmed a once gangster and trafficker are the men that will help Paster Jude.  Alban had went to Greece to try and make some money but it wasn't what he expected and that easy. The way the author has wrote this story it made it feel real, especially the car journey from Albania to Greece, I felt like I was sitting in the car with them talking to Mehmed, along with the sounds, smells, it seem so real.  It might of been hard crossing the boarder on the way to find Alban, but finding him was even harder. Who can trust and who not to trust. Are you speaking to the right people or are you going to need rescued as well. With the author having lived and worked in the countries we get a picture view of how life is from day to day, both good and bad. You can just imagine what the big cities must of been like with the riots, the politics and the religious side as well