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In a region of Cameroon populated by people outsiders call pygmies, a Danish development project has gone off the rails. Then, shortly after a visitor from the Danish foreign ministry is glimpsed on a visit, the local liaison between the project and the Danes is brutally murdered. Back home in Denmark, one of the foreign ministry officials involved in the project goes missing. We've learned that a senior official in the ministry and top executives at a Copenhagen bank are involved in a massive fraud. Meanwhile, troubles mount for a 15-year-old boy who is enslaved as a thief and a beggar by a band who style themselves Gypsies. We know there are connections among all these circumstances. But Carl Mørck doesn't.

Detective Inspector Carl Mørck and his unlikely sidekicks, Asaad and Rose, take on the official's disappearance despite being warned off the case. All three have a long history of doing exactly what they want—and nothing more. Carl thinks of the two as unstoppable: "The two of them together were like a herd of stampeding gnu on the plains of Africa. Heads down and full steam ahead, and if he wasn't going to join in, he'd better get out of the way." Until now, they've been able to get away with acting only on their own because they close cases at an unusually high rate for the Copenhagen police force. But now their boss, the head of the homicide department, is retiring unexpectedly. And his boss, no friend of Carl's, is moving temporarily into the job. To keep an eye on the three misfits of Department Q he assigns an awkward third-year law student as a spy, thus complicating the team's efforts to uncover the truth behind the official's disappearance and presumed death.

As Mørck, Asaad, and Rose dig into the circumstances of the official's disappearance, more complications arise. That 15-year-old-boy, Marco, emerges as the central figure in the case. The boss' spy frustrates the investigation with inappropriate and unauthorized questions directed at suspects. All the while, Marco is on the run from the head of the "Gypsy" clan, who wants him dead for defying him.

It's all a fine mess—an investigation that's far more complicated than it has any right to be. But, as the three hapless investigators in Department Q stumble toward a resolution, it's a whole lot of fun.


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The Marco Effect A Department Q Novel Jussi AdlerOlsen 9780525954026 Books Reviews

The Marco Effect is the best of the Department Q novels available in English so far. Police detective Carl Morck, Assad and Rose have gotten to know each other and work well as a team, although their personalities and quirks cause them to clash as always. Marco, a fifteen-year-old illegal immigrant boy from Italy, is the title character. Through most of the story, he is on the lam in Copenhagen, fleeing from his criminal adopted family, the police, African boy soldiers turned hit men and embezzling bankers. Morck is, of course, in the middle of it all. Assad's mysterious and violent past almost emerges from the shadows. Rose shows surprising detective skills, but is caught by Morck "shagging" with her string bean boyfriend in her office down the hall. the boyfriend, Gordon, has been foisted upon Dept. Q as an intern, much to Morck's chagrin. The pace of this story is fast, with many twists and turns. Adler-Olson has cranked up the suspense level in this one. The odds against the resourceful Marco are so overwhelming that his plucky ability to outsmart his adversaries reminded me of Lee Child's hero, Jack Reacher--Marco's got the wiles without the superhero physical gifts. As always, Denmark is a supporting character. Copenhagen is explored thoroughly, from back alleys to Tivoli Gardens. If you are looking for a thought-provoking mystery that's also an action-packed thriller, read The Marco Effect.
I do not think I will be able to finish this silly book, though I've enjoyed prior Department Q efforts. Maybe you have to be a Dane to appreciate the endless, repetitive tales of woe and difficulties overcome of the Gypsy youth, Marco, and his nemesis, Zola. Maybe the utter lack of connection between this and the beginning tale of a giant African financial scam by minor Danish government apparatchiks and their follow-on murder sequence will be as boring even to Danes as it is to me. And then the endless, repetitive, overly detailed, book-filling search for something for some reason about the dead man we met early on and his daughter. I mean, who cares? Why would we care?
In a region of Cameroon populated by people outsiders call pygmies, a Danish development project has gone off the rails. Then, shortly after a visitor from the Danish foreign ministry is glimpsed on a visit, the local liaison between the project and the Danes is brutally murdered. Back home in Denmark, one of the foreign ministry officials involved in the project goes missing. We've learned that a senior official in the ministry and top executives at a Copenhagen bank are involved in a massive fraud. Meanwhile, troubles mount for a 15-year-old boy who is enslaved as a thief and a beggar by a band who style themselves Gypsies. We know there are connections among all these circumstances. But Carl Mørck doesn't.

Detective Inspector Carl Mørck and his unlikely sidekicks, Asaad and Rose, take on the official's disappearance despite being warned off the case. All three have a long history of doing exactly what they want—and nothing more. Carl thinks of the two as unstoppable "The two of them together were like a herd of stampeding gnu on the plains of Africa. Heads down and full steam ahead, and if he wasn't going to join in, he'd better get out of the way." Until now, they've been able to get away with acting only on their own because they close cases at an unusually high rate for the Copenhagen police force. But now their boss, the head of the homicide department, is retiring unexpectedly. And his boss, no friend of Carl's, is moving temporarily into the job. To keep an eye on the three misfits of Department Q he assigns an awkward third-year law student as a spy, thus complicating the team's efforts to uncover the truth behind the official's disappearance and presumed death.

As Mørck, Asaad, and Rose dig into the circumstances of the official's disappearance, more complications arise. That 15-year-old-boy, Marco, emerges as the central figure in the case. The boss' spy frustrates the investigation with inappropriate and unauthorized questions directed at suspects. All the while, Marco is on the run from the head of the "Gypsy" clan, who wants him dead for defying him.

It's all a fine mess—an investigation that's far more complicated than it has any right to be. But, as the three hapless investigators in Department Q stumble toward a resolution, it's a whole lot of fun.