Outcasts: Case three - Anja Mijović

Andrej Popović and Uroš Stanić from the Department for High-Tech Crime are determined to expose the worst crimes not only in the sphere of their department, but also more widely, reacting to every injustice that stands in their way. With that attitude, they made enemies among the powerful, thugs and local tabloids. During a routine monitoring, they unexpectedly come across a den of human trafficking. The reaction is lightning fast and the department quickly disperses the criminal's lair. However, by doing so, it's as if they touched the beehive and only angered the rest of the swarm...

In the exciting third part of Ooutcasts, a series that leaves you breathless, Anja Mijović continues to mercilessly reveal all the malignant points of Serbian society.

I bought it, I read it, I was blown away!!! No, no... I literally fell off my feet. You know what they say when they tell you "A book that you can read in one breath", "A book that keeps you awake", "A book that you can't let go of your hands"... Well, Outcasts are all that and much more. They are a novel that will not leave anyone indifferent. It will melt even the coldest heart, and make those who think they have no soul cry like little babies. I am one of those. I have read, watched, listened to everything in my life... However, nothing could have prepared me for what lies between the covers of this wonderful but brutal book. As I said to the best husband in the world, it is very difficult to say anything about the plot of Outcasts, and not to reveal details, because Anja is a master of making the story so complicated that even the tiniest word is a spoiler.

As in the previous two novels, Anja puts the protagonists in incredible situations, often leading them to various perils, and even to the very edge of death. She says that the VTK inspectors are her children, but... At certain moments, she mistreated them so much that she looked more like the evil stepmother from Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs than a caring mother who loves her children. Nevertheless, she gave them a helping hand in the most unbelievable moments and thus prevented me from becoming one of the characters that Vera, Peđa, Uroš and Andrej are investigating.

I'm sitting in an armchair, in a car, on a beach on a lake (everyone looks at me strangely), I'm reading and I get the urge to slam the book against the wall and start screaming, because I've just recognized a corrupt politician, an unscrupulous tabloid journalist or a paparazzi. Nevertheless, I continue to read, and at certain moments I really want to slap Uroš, Vera, Andrej and Peđa and scream something like "Mother of God, don't go down to the basement, the killer is always there!"

Anja, you incredible woman, congratulations! Hats off and a bow to the floor for the courage, imagination and ideology that you carry inside of you!!!

(Hella loves Outcasts too. She's not Becca, but she can guard :D)

As in the previous two novels, Anja deals with the most sensitive topics in today's society, the bullying and pimping of children and the system that turns a blind eye to it all. No, not the blind eye, they all are wearing a thick, black blindfold through which not even a smallest ray of light can penetrate.

Outcasts are published in Serbia at the same time as in the world the movie Sound for Freedom, around which there was a big fuss because of the topic it deals with, and which not a single big Hollywood studio stood behind. The film is breaking all box office and ratings records, which drives Hollywood and some of the powerfuls there into a frenzy.

Both Outcasts and Sound of Freedom deal with the same subject, real life, and the rare people who are willing to sacrifice everything to help those who cannot fend for themselves. Neither the book nor the movie is for those with a weak stomach who, like the powerful, turn a blind eye while the most vulnerable suffer. I sincerely hope that more Ballards or some Uroš, Vera, Andrije, Peđa or Katarina will appear in the world and lead the Crusade against one of the worst evils of today.

Outcasts: Care three can be ordered on the website of the publisher Čarobna Knjiga or wait for it to appear in bookstores in your city. Honestly, I couldn't wait ;)