Moral principles behind an English thriller

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duszek
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Moral principles behind an English thriller

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Yesterday I finished reading "The Hollow Man" by Oliver Harris.

Nick Belsey, a streetwise policeman, finds out about a huge fraud project in London connected to several killings.
But.
The main fraudster is another policeman who takes the money (an investement from a company abroad) and leaves the country to enjoy it. Belsey allows this to happen. This another policeman also killed someone, yet another policeman who investigated as a private detective and disturbed him in the big fake mansion.
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The company abroad invested in casinos and similar dubious kinds of entertainment, something not morally correct, so it was sponging on human weaknesses.

Is this a good reason to steal a big sum of money from such a company ?

The problem was that this company hired a sniper to kill the responsible people. One of the targets and victims was an innocent call-girl though.

That´s why the sniper deserved to die, I suppose.
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