An adventurous young backpacker, captured and sold. A black market merchant who will stop at nothing to amass the power he craves. The one woman who can stop him before he destroys everything… discovers the man responsible for the girl’s disappearance is connected to a violent Hong Kong triad and is the linchpin of an extensive trafficking network—both animal and human.
Making enemies isn’t new for Leine, but making one in the triad is—she soon finds herself a prisoner on board a cargo ship headed for sub-Saharan Africa. To ensure her survival and to continue her hunt for the missing girl, she must join forces with Derek, an ivory poacher who promises to help her.
For a price.
Other books in the award-winning Leine Basso Crime Thriller series:
A Killing Truth
Serial Date
Bad Traffick
The Body Market
The Last Deception
Dark Return
Absolution
Dakota Burnmore
Former professional hit-woman Leine Basso can get into more trouble than most folks, and can usually find a way out. This time she’s trying to help a friend find a defiant daughter missing in a foreign country, a task that turns ugly when she discovers a ship with dozens of humans as cargo, including the one she’s trying to find. And her own daughter back home has flown off to prove herself as an undercover operative worthy of Leine’s praise–you can feel the tension and angst tearing at Leine from all directions. Three continents, a dozen or more subplots, illegal big-game hunts in Africa, and battles with several disgusting bad people will keep you reading this fast-paced thriller late into the night. Oh yeah! I rarely give five stars to thrillers, because it’s not my favorite genre. But Dv Berkom is one of the best authors in this crowded field. Disclosure — I received a pre-publication reviewer print copy in exchange for an honest review. Go Leine!
Leine Basso travels to Thailand and Tanzania in her anti-trafficking work, under circumstances that require her to forge an alliance with an Afrikaner poacher, a complex and fascinating rogue. A tightly structured page-turner with vivid settings and compelling characters, Cargo deals with some of the worst in human behavior: cruelty to fellow humans and to wildlife, motivated by greed. The harm to animals takes place offstage—the reader isn’t forced to watch—but the aftermath is tragic and appalling, and the scenes detailing a trafficking victim’s ordeal haunted me. This is an intense read, but I still recommend it. The last line troubled me, though. It’s closure, full-circle justice of a sort, but it’s disturbing, too—not healing.
Cargo – a review by Rosemary Kenny
Leine Basso’s daughter April is a new agent, like her, at SHEN, an organisation dedicated to helping rescue young foreigners from being drugged, kidnapped and forced into sex slavery.
One such is American Kylie Nelson, whose worried parents hire Leine to investigate, starting in Bangkok and then ending up in Tanzania, on evil mastermind Victor Wang’s trail.
What does Leine find out – at first hand?
Who’s Derek and where does Leine meet him?
Having made their way to Wang’s jungle camp and
escaped from an ambush by armed guards, Leine and Derek must hasten to save not only Kylie but other prisoners at the camp, before it’s too late.
Can they succeed and bring an end to the megalomaniac’s inhuman machinations?
To find out, get your hands on a copy of D.V. Berkom’s sensational fourth Leine Basso Thriller, Cargo, today – you’ll take a walk on the wild side and realise how alert you need to be – wherever you go on holiday!
The entire series is well worth reading if you are into action packed crime drama. Well written.
Cargo is a thrilling adventure that I could not wait to see what happened next.
Thanks to netgalley.com, D.V. Berkom and Duct Tape Press for the advance ARC for my honest review.
I must confess, that I have all the prior books in this awesome series buried on my Kindle/TBR list and will have to read them now. This one is my favorite of all the 2015 published books I’ve read.
This one is brilliant written, beautifully done on it’s subject content, perfect written to keep the reader reading verse getting upset and not wanting to finish ‘Cargo’.
D.V. Berkom takes three hot topics right out of the news, then intertwines them, puts her super action hero Leine Basso right in the mix, you get a heart pounding edge of your seat book, full of twist and turns, fast paced and one that takes you from California to Bangkok and to Tanzania.
I really like the Leine Basso character, she’s super human, tough as nails, has no fear, can handle any situation, lethal with any gun and protector of the weak, those that can’t defend themselves.
With her daughter Alice wanting to be like Mom, Leine shows that deep inside that tough exterior, she’s just like anyone else. With Santiago, even a tough cookie needs a little loving.
Cargo’s about sex trafficking, poaching, the illegal ivory and black rhino black market trafficking. Berkom shows just how easy it’s to do sex trafficking, with the two scenario’s she uses in ‘Cargo’.
Can’t forget Alma, Zara and Hattie that work for a nonprofit organization that takes care of Lion cubs, then injured or sick adults and with the goal to release them back into the wild.
You also have poaching, the black market for Ivory and Black Rhino which I was familiar with it and found her writing made it more of an educational experience for me.
Berkom’s characters are amazing, they are life like, stand out and either good or bad just add to make the story so good.
Even as bad as Derek van der Haar is, being a poacher, trafficking in Ivory and Black Rhino, with his interacting with Leine. You can tell he’s really a decent guy and deep down knows he has to make some changes in his life.
I liked the Kylie, to be abducted and sold the way she was, man what a toughie. Knew that when Nassir popped into the story, that in somehow was connected to Leine’s past and a host Ranger.
The only thing I would change would have had Leine taking out Kaui but I do like the way Berkom did it and the necklace thing was a brilliant way to end the book.
Better stop since I try not to just rewrite some of the storyline or give too much away and have a bunch of Berkom’s books too catch up.
I highly recommend ‘Cargo’, D.V. Berkom’s books and she’ll end up being your new favorite.
Entertaining and fast paced with plenty of action. Mostly occurring in Africa, it highlights the beauty and wonders and the danger of poachers to the species located there. Good, of course, prevails in the end even to the former friend who betrayed Leine
A very interesting read.
A great read from beginning to end.
Quick easy read. Very entertaining.
It had plenty of action and interesting characters.
Very interesting! A good adventure!
Loved it
Liked the feisty heroine and the subplots going on. Great action and great series!!
I was on the edge of my seat hoping the turn out would be good. I enjoyed it. Good easy reading. Thanks.
I like the suspense and the strong female character
Edge of the seat reading
Good book.
Entertaining and joyful reading.
This was very entertaining a quick read and frighteningly realistic in the human trafficking department. Yikes!