The Takers and Keepers by Ivan Pope – Book Review

PUBLISHERS BLURB 

Where do the disappeared go?

The girls and women who vanish, seldom to resurface.

Allen Kimbo, a freelance reporter, believes there is a network of men who guard their “taken” and keep the silence that surrounds such deeds.

An email lures him to Eastern Europe, to a meeting of the Takers and Keepers.

His girlfriend, Emily, pleads with him not to go.

In Belgrade more is revealed than he had thought possible.

Back at home, Emily is missing.

MY REVIEW 

The Takers and the Keepers is about the dark underworld of human trafficking.

Here, journalist Allen Kimbo is investigating in Eastern Europe and what he finds is this horrific trade, which treats desperate people like nothing more than livestock.

This is not an easy read even for those of us who like our crime fiction on the darker side, this is as dark as it comes, all the more terrifying as this is really happening every day.

I found this to be a compelling thriller that is heart rending and thought provoking and it will stay with me for a long time. 

Thank you to Random Things Tours for the opportunity to be part of this blog tour, for the promotional material and an eARC of The Takers and Keepers.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ivan Pope is a writer, artist and long-distance cyclist who lives in Brighton.

He graduated from Goldsmiths College Fine Art BA with the YBA generation and was involved with a number of early internet developments in the UK and across the world.

He invented the cybercafe at London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts and founded the world’s first web magazine, The World Wide Web Newsletter.

He has taught at art colleges in London, Newport and Brighton.

He is now a writer of fiction and creative non-fiction.

He is currently undertaking a PhD in creative non-fiction at Plymouth University.

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