Published by Constable, 29 June 2023.
ISBN: 978-0-349-13560-1 HB
Six years ago, Ben Keonig
was in the Special Ops Group, their task was to hunt down the really, really
bad criminals. A raid they went on resulted in Koenig killing the son of a very
important man. Ben had to disappear.
Then suddenly out of the blue he is unexpectedly
detained and held in a police cell. As there seems to be no real reason to keep
him there he is about to be released when he is visited by an old friend of his,
Mitchell Burridge who belongs to the United States Marshals Service. He tells
him his daughter, Martha, has been missing for two months and he is at his wits
end. He wants Ben to look into her disappearance, which he agrees to do.
They both seem convinced that she is dead, but
Mitchell still wants him to find her one way or another and kill whoever is
responsible.
Keonig suffers from a brain genetic disorder which
ensures he feels no fear. He is therefore the ideal person to send on such a
mission.
Meanwhile we learn of a man in a “yellow suit” who
is keeping tags on them, he is really puzzled, what are they up to? Keonig visits the campus where Martha was
studying and finds all her papers have disappeared. What was in them? He
assumes it led to her disappearance. He digs deeper and so begins a rough ride
to find the truth behind a supposed climbing accident that she was
investigating.
Not only now is he being hunted by the father of
whoever’s son it was he killed six years ago, but also by the people behind the
climbing cover up.
A further mystery involves the building of a solar
energy plant in a very unlikely place by the survivor of the climbing accident.
Then a Mexican cartel becomes involved. Can it all
be connected, and if so, how?
In his task to find solutions to the many questions
Keonig leaves a trail of death and destruction in his wake a bit like a human
tsunami. He cannot possibly come out unscathed, can he?
What an enthralling book, the real ultimate in
fictional thriller entertainment. Intriguing to the final page. I couldn’t put
it down. Really highly recommended. ------ Reviewer: Tricia Chappell
M. W. Craven was born in Cumbria in 1968 but grew up in the North East. He trained
for two years as an armourer before spending the next ten being paid to travel
the world and drink ridiculous amounts of alcohol. In 1995, sick of writing
postcards and having fun, he decided it might be time to do something a bit
more sensible. And it doesn't get more sensible than doing a law degree. So, he
did Social Work instead. Two years later he started working in Cumbria as a
probation officer. Sixteen years later he took the plunge and became a full-time
writer. Mike's first Washington Poe novel The Pupped Show , won the Gold
Dagger for best novel in 2019. The
Botanist , published in 2022, the fifth book in the series won the Gold Dagger
in 2022. He lives in Carlisle. Mike is a member of the
Crime Writers' Association, the International Thriller Writers' Association,
and the Mystery People Group.
http://www.mwcraven.com/
Tricia
Chappell . I have a
great love of books and reading, especially crime and thrillers. I play the
occasional game of golf (when I am not reading). My great love is cruising
especially to far flung places, when there are long days at sea for plenty more
reading! I am really enjoying reviewing books and have found lots of great new
authors.
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