The night was supposed to be a celebration. The culmination of another successful season for the guide service Hawk Tate and his business partner, Kaylan Quick, run together. A joyous occasion that saw them eat, drink, and toast the passing of another year.And ultimately ended with one of them in the hospital, both only narrowly escaping with their lives.At the same time, five hundred miles to … their lives.
At the same time, five hundred miles to the west, Hawk’s former DEA teammate Shawn Martin and his wife are feeling equally festive. Back from a weeklong business trip, they put the children to bed and slip outside, hoping to enjoy some champagne and time together in the hot tub.
A plan that ends in ways neither of them could have ever imagined.
After years of working throughout Central and South America, targeting some of the largest drug runners in the world, the coordination of the events is too much to be coincidence. Someone is coming after their team, looking to right some perceived wrong.
Shocked and confused, Hawk is forced to plunge back into the life he left six years before. Relying on friends new and old, he begins to unravel what is happening, his hunt taking him across the western half of the United States in search of an answer that is much, much closer to home that he would have ever thought possible…
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this book is part of a series but can also be read as a standalone. Stevens can wonderfully fill in bits you don’t know as a 1st time reader, this story has lots of twists and turns and its certainly hard to put it down and get on with life! looking forward to the next installment.
This was my first Hawk Tate book and it was riveting to say the least. Definitely able to read as a stand-alone but I’m one of those readers that has to have the whole story so I will be looking for the rest of this series for sure!
Junior Ruiz is released from prison after serving only 8 years of a 40 year sentence. Hawk Tate and his partner Kaylon come back to his office. The door explodes and puts her in the hospital. Many miles away Hawk’s former DEA partner, Shawn Martin is shot dead. Hawk and Shawn helped put Ruiz away.
Is this related or revenge from some other drug lord? This is another page turner thriller in this series. Action packed and hard to put down.
I received this book as an ARC, with the only condition being a fair review.
This book opens with bang & keeps right on going!
Hawk Tate, is off on another wild adventure, not of his own choosing.
After a brief celebratory dinner with his office partner, the evening is rudely interrupted, when a loud explosion rips through the night!
It seems, that an old enemy of Hawk’s & his team, is back!
Aftar inexplicably being released from prison, decades earlier than his sentence should permit, Junior Ruiz is back in the drug business. Now, he’s trying to get revenge on the people who put him in prison to begin with.
The story races from West Yellowstone, to Washington State, and down into the Baja.
Though this is the sixth book in the series, it reads fine as a stand-alone novel. The author has a wonderful way at explaining old characters so that even if you haven’t read the previous books, you can still enjoy this one.
With many twists and turns, Hawk finally gets to put an end to this chapter of his life. Old enemies, will finally be definitively vanquished!
I read this book in only 2 days, and suggest that if you’d like an exciting well-written novel with characters both good and evil, you should do the same.
This book has so many plot twists and turns that you are constantly on the edge of your seat wondering what will happen next. I loved the way the book was written and feel that its unique to this author! From the start you are caught up in the story and can’t put down the book. The main characters interactions with the “good guys” and the “bad guys” has you rooting for him and hoping he will come out the “winner”. If you like action, suspense, mystery and a book with lots of twists and turns that take you on a crazy roller-coaster ride you will absolutely love this book.
I was given this book in return for an honest review.
Well that was an awesome action packed fast-paced adventure which is really nothing new for Hawk Tate but when people close to him are getting seriously hurt or dead then Hawk will stop at NOTHING to get justice for them and let’s just say justice Hawk style is something bad guys should steer clear of at all cost because when this mountain man has you in his sights he turns into a rabid grizzly bear and there is not stopping him.
There was nothing I didn’t love about this book the character’s are awesome, the plot was gripping and thrilling the research and information throughout the story really brought it to life for me.
I have loved every book in this series and Wild Fire was no exception.
Jeremiah “Hawk” Tate is a former DEA agent turned wilderness guide in Yellowstone. Someone from his past he arrested years ago decided to go after him and his teammates. Hawk is forced to put his skills to use one more time in order to remove the target on his back and his friends once and for all.
Dustin Stevens is one of my favorite authors. His stories are captivating, suspenseful and a real page-turner. His characters feel real and authentic. The flow and vividness of the action makes one feel part of it.
Looking forward to reading more of Hawk’s adventures.
Interweaving several characters backstories into a fast moving mystery, Dustin Stevens brings back Hawk Tate in a riveting tale of revenge.
Delving into several different crimes against people Hawk cares about, he finds multiple things that just don’t add up – until he follows the clues. This was a satisfying read.
Although this was my first of the Hawk Tate series, there was enough backstory given that it was easy to figure out the character connections.
It is my first book by Dustin Stevens and definitelly will not be the last one. I did not have any expectation actually but ended up finding my next favorite author. I truly enjoyed the book from start to finish. What action, drama and suspense, absolutely my kind of a read. It’s like watching a good old thriller movie, only better. Story itself and characters are definitelly believable. So now my plan is to actually catch up and read the first 5 Hawk Tate books 🙂 Recommend to adventure, thriller, suspense genre fans.
Dustin Stevens’ Wild Fire is the latest in a series, but riveting as a stand alone novel. For readers of the series there will be familiar characters and a few new faces. First time readers will not suffer from lack of background as Stevens’ tight character introduction is subtle yet effective. First time readers will likely want to explore some earlier adventures. Fans will just fasten their seatbelts.
Wild Fire unfolds over three days and the pace is hyper-drive. Hawk Tate, retired DEA agent and currently Yellowstone National Park adventure guide, treats his uber-efficient business manager, Kaylan Quick, to an employee appreciation dinner and they are launched from dessert into the crosshairs of assassins hired for revenge. Coordinated revenge.
Tate’s assassine underestimates him. Big mistake. Big beatdown – and now the would be triggerman is a captive and maybe a key to the puzzle. Just as the wounds are patched up at the local hospital Tate’s human information hub, Pally, advises him that his friend and former comrade-in-arms, Shawn Martin was killed almost simultaneously.
Two out of three former teammates attacked at the same time registers as a major threat. Carl Diggs, the odd man out, seems to have escaped due to a mercenary adventure out of the country. Tate heads to comfort the widow of his friend and Pally reaches out to Diggs in a call to battle stations.
Tate reaches out to a colleague, Mia Diaz, the local acting Regional DEA Director. Tate finds a subtle message at the murder scene that points him to the assassine – who should be in prison for another 30 years. It just got complicated.
Seems that a government agency has off books released a former drug lord as part of a murky operation. The agents pulling the strings on this didn’t twig to the revenge mission the drug lord has against Tate and friends. Tate and friends – being the arresting officers that put him away.
The pace heats up as three forces battle – for dominance and survival. Hawk Tate is described as much like the grizzly bears living alongside him in Yellowstone. The bad guys should not have poked him.
Along with tense plot and surprises along the way Stevens explores courage, loyalty, friendship, and character in ways that make the novel all the more gripping.
A most unusual story
Junior Ruiz has just served eight years of a forty year sentence. However, after a meeting with Smith and Jones, possible mysterious government agents, he leaves the prison as a free man.
Assassin Tres Salinas kill a former teammate of Hawk.
After a surprise dinner, Hawk takes his company partner Kaylan home. As soon as she reaches the front door, a blast knocks her down. Another assassin then tries to kill Hawk, who captures him and takes him to the local sheriff’s office. Afterwards, Hawk takes Kaylan to the nearest hospital, which is 50 miles away from his hometown.
Ramon Reyes is the head of a San Diego drug cartel. He had taken over after Ruiz went to prison. In the meantime, he has eyes on Ruiz.
Stevens weaves the story around these characters (and others) and their actions while keeping the reader in suspense as he or she is attempting to figure out what exactly is going on. Very few authors are able to pull this off the way that Stevens has done in this book.