If you haven't met Luther on TV, you should. This book will appeal to Luther fans, but Warning the content may be too disturbing for some readers. This is a powerful, propulsive, high-octane thriller with an exciting, heart-pounding chase near the end and a desperate hunt to save a dying, captive child. He could be considered obsessive and somewhat unhinged. Colleagues are often appalled by his methods, but they usually like and forgive him. He loves his wife, but his obsessive work ethic and the quest for revenge make it seem that his marriage is doomed. He is compelled to keep working without rest until the cases are solved. Knowing that Luther wouldn't stop until he caught the perpetrators, I was unable to put the book aside. The book is fast-paced and well-constructed. I found some graphic scenes hard to read as they lingered in my imagination more than the TV shows and were nightmare-inducing. It addresses deviant sexual thoughts and actions (especially pedophilia), infertility, child abduction and trafficking, abortion, blackmail, cruelty, torture and murder. There are many gut-wrenching and cringe-worthy issues in The Calling. I missed Luther when the series ended in 2019, but now a recent movie, 'The Fallen Sun' on Netflix continues Luther's life and his criminal cases after the series' final episode and news that more movies will follow. The killers are so deranged, and their crimes revolting, I admit to cheering him on.
He is an angry man who is compelled to bring some of the evilest, demented killers to his type of justice (or vengeance), often going outside the law. He is my favourite TV homicide detective, so I am probably biased. The calling is a book that was written as a prequel to the five brilliant BBC TV series that ran from 2010 to 2019.
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