From internationally-acclaimed thriller writer Grant McKenzie comes a novel that hits perilously close to home, and will keep you guessing until the last page.What if everything you believed about the worst event in your life was a lie?Ian Quinn’s day begins with an anonymous death threat, but that’s not entirely unusual in his line of work as a court-ordered child protection officer. The … officer. The frustrated parents of his clients often need someone to lash out at and Ian makes sure that he is the easiest target.
But the threat is nothing compared to the envelope stuffed into his hand by a foul-smelling vagrant who mutters the cryptic message, He says he’s sorry” before scurrying away.
The envelope with his name scrawled across the front contains a lone visitor’s pass to the Oregon State Penitentiary, and the accompanying message fills Ian’s heart with both terror and revulsion.
The author of the note destroyed Ian’s life. In the blink of an eye, this drunk-driving scum took the most precious thing in Ian’s life.
Worst of all, Ian had watched it happen.
And now the bastard wants to see him.
The message is short. Only seven words.
I was paid to kill your daughter.
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Did not care for it, not the usually book I read
A suspenseful story.
Meh! This was an ok story. I liked the plot line, which was suspenseful until the end. However, I didn’t like most of the character, especially Ian. Just based on that, I’m not interested in reading the sequel.
Main character is a complete jerk and uses the excuse of his child’s death for all his actions. Book should be called a fantasy instead of a thriller because most of the things that happen, just can’t.
Ian uses everyone and bullies everyone, except for the ones he kills. But, he has a reason, Emily died. Yeah.
And, the good news, this is book one in a series.
I will definitely pass on the rest.
Most of the time if the plot is good, you can tolerate main characters with no redeeming qualities. But with an unbelievable plot and really loathsome main characters, why bother to read this.
It is a very good story that had great potential but the characters lacked depth and background. The guilty party comes in at the end with little history and a motive that stretches the imagination. The story is good enough to keep you reading but it lacks a realistic ending.
A young daughter is killed by a hit-and-run driver and the perpetrator is brought to justice. However, things are not as clear-cut as they seem, and therein lies the story. I found the premise itself to be interesting and the writing style to be okay (except for a few over the top metaphors and descriptions in odd places), but after a few chapters it all dissolved into just a vengeance driven father breaking down too many doors and beating too many people to a pulp to get the answers he so desperately sought. The father was depicted as an intelligent and responsible children’s advocate involved in supervising court ordered visitations, yet he seemed to be out of control, running at warp speed into dangerous situations and wreaking havoc with no prior planning or forethought in most of the book. His best friend was a police detective, yet the detective only seemed to be around to clean up the messes created by the main character. I was particularly disappointed by the ending. Instead of redeeming qualities rising to surface in the father and a show of restraint, he sinks even lower to wreak final vengeance that was just plain over the top. I didn’t buy the super-human burst of energy at the end that allowed him to overcome massive physical injuries and hunt down his quarry. It just made the ending even less appealing.