The ninth novel from author and screenwriter Neil Cross, The Calling is an unusual book in that it’s the prequel to the TV show Luther, which was itself written by Cross. Sensibly avoiding anything in the way of an origin story, here we see the earlier but still fully-formed character of John Luther taking on the case of an appalling double murder and the theft of a baby, a crime which drives the troubled detective to spread himself dangerously thin. Driven to applying sometimes questionable methods, he not only attracts the attention of an internal investigation, but sees his marriage slipping further away from him with every day, while the man responsible spreads terror throughout the city.
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