The Wreckage (Joseph O'Loughlin #5) by Michael Robotham

Baghdad

Journalist Luca Terracini is living outside the wire and investigating a series of deadly million-dollar back robberies. But he's about to make some powerful enemies who seek to bury secrets and manipulate the truth, regardless of the cost.

London

A thousand miles away, ex-cop Vincent Ruiz rescues a young woman, Holly Knight, from a violent boyfriend - but wakes next morning to find that she's robbed him. It was an elaborate scam. Furious at himself, and at her, he sets off to find Holly.

Two seemingly unrelated stories collide in unexpected ways in this ambitious, compelling thriller that demonstrates why Linwood Barclay says 'Michael Robotham doesn't just make me scared for his characters . . .he makes my heart ache for them'.