Blog Tour: Death Flight – Sarah Sultoon

Argentina. 1998. Human remains are found on a beach on the outskirts of
Buenos Aires – a gruesome echo of when the tide brought home dozens of mutilated bodies thrown from planes during Argentina’s Dirty War.
Flights of death, with passengers known as The Disappeared.
International Tribune reporter Jonny Murphy is in Buenos Aires interviewing families of the missing, desperate to keep their memory alive, when the body turns up. His investigations with his companion,
freelance photographer Paloma Glenn, have barely started when Argentina’s simmering financial crisis explodes around them.
As the fabric of society starts to disintegrate and Argentine cities burn
around them, Jonny and Paloma are suddenly thrust centre stage, fighting
to secure both their jobs and their livelihoods.
But Jonny is also fighting something else, an echo from his own past that he’ll never shake, and as it catches up with him and Paloma, he must make choices that will endanger everything he knows…

Sarah Sultoon is a journalist and writer, whose work as an international news executive at CNN has taken her all over the world, from the seats of power in both Westminster and Washington to the
frontlines of Iraq and Afghanistan. She has extensive experience in conflict zones, winning three Peabody awards for her work on the war in Syria, an Emmy for her contribution to the coverage of Europe’s migrant crisis in 2015, and a number of Royal Television Society gongs. When not reading or writing she can usually be found somewhere outside, either running, swimming or throwing a ball for her three children and dog …

Her debut thriller The Source is currently in production with Lime Pictures, and was a Capital Crime Book Club pick and a number one bestseller on Kindle. The Shot (2022) and Dirt (2023) followed, with multiple award longlistings, including the CWA Daggers.
Sarah currently works for Channel 4 News and lives in London.

My thoughts: I read an article about the Disappeared not that long ago, so I was really intrigued to read this book, Death Flight, which follows an investigation into the Argentinian government’s dark past and the Dirty War against its own people. 

Sarah Sultoon draws on her long experience as a journalist to create a suspenseful, intelligent and gripping thriller.

Johnny Murphy is the International Tribune’s man on the ground in South America, as long as he gets his stories in fast and before his opposition. However as he, and photographer Paloma, dig deeper into the Disappeared and the mothers and grandmothers who gather to protest the ongoing silence around their children, he stops reporting on the financial crisis and ends up in trouble. 

Reporting to Allen in DC, he goes off with Paloma to investigate further but both women have secrets and as Johnny continues on his search for the truth, he is drawn into dangerous waters by the mysterious Paloma and Allen’s own agenda.

This twists and turns, taking the reader into the dark heart of Argentina and the terrible things carried out by the military on the government’s orders.

*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour,but all opinions remain my own.