Orphan X #5.
I can’t praise this series highly enough, and INTO THE FIRE is as good as any of the previous.
As usual, the message – and phone number – of someone who is dedicated to give 100%, including his life if necessary, is given to a desperate soul by the previous recipient of help from this highly trained ex-assassin, known as Evan Smoak. The Nowhere Man.
Acting as a fairly normal person with their insecurities and fallibilities is not something that Evan finds easy. Thus, people he’d like to open up to would run a mile if they knew the truth about him, especially District Attorney, Mia Hall, and her young son, Peter. Moreover, as a DA, she would have to have him arrested and put away forever…
Evan has at his call experts who trust him totally and who will supply him with their specialist expertise. Arms like anything from sniper rifles to the rarest of explosives. Computer and net-hacking skills that can even suck pearls from the muck of the Dark Web. And, to survive and accomplish his latest task, the protection of Max Merriweather, he is going to test those connections to the limit.
Gregg Hurwitz – author
Max has been entrusted with a deadly secret by his late cousin. A loser the rest of his family shuns, nobody would suspect he would be the carrier of a secret which leaves a trail of dead behind it. Evan must not only protect him from killers, he must try to stop the depressed Max from giving up and to plant a seed of confidence in him.
Five star stuff, this. This series stands tall even in the ranks of those such as Lee Child and Harlan Coben…
Thank you to Penguin Random House, SA for this ARC. ISBN 9780718185510.
As usual, Kurt Austin spends his holidays searching for lost or hidden treasure, and when this activity coincides with work, it is a bonus.
An excellent read. Although a follow on from the gripper where the serial killer Jacob Ness dies, Flora Dane cannot let his evil legacy go. There are still too many bodies out there; families who still search in hope that their daughters may still turn up. When the bones of a young woman’s body are found outside a small southern town deep in the wooded mountains of Georgia, connections are eventually made to Jacob Ness that may lead to many more of his victims.
A tip top yarn to prove that Marc Cameron has really filled the boots of Tom Clancy and his President Jack Ryan cast of characters.
There’s something Dick Belsky delivers in all of his mysteries — spine-bending plot twists that leave you feeling like you’re riding a nuclear-powered rollercoaster instead of reading a book.
For world-wide readers, indeed also for a lot of South Africans in whose country this novel is set, the backstory will be an eye-opening look into the culture and traditions of Xhosa people on the one hand and urban black folk on the other.
Reviewing Irma van Zyl’s first in the Storm van der Merwe Series, I felt that with her feisty South African Police detective, the series would have huge potential. The stories continue to be gripping page-turners and the twists go on surprising.
When you open one of Peter J. Earle’s novels, get ready to be swept up in a panoramic tour of South Africa after apartheid and Mandela.
JIM NESBITT is the author of the series of hardboiled thrillers featuring P.I. Ed Earl Burch.
Author James O. Born is going from strength to strength as I detect less James Patterson oversight in this exciting thriller.
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