Genre: Suspense/Mystery
Description:
“After rival gangs kill his sister during a gun battle, an Army sniper
returns home for revenge.
Travel with him as he makes his way across the nation to visit a wife
of a fallen comrade before settling into his hometown of Modesto, CA. Along the
way, his journey forces him to examine his own life and the past he thought
he’d left behind.
Before he can get settled in, he meets Henry Clay Jackson, a retired
lawman with ideas of his own. Then there’s the young lady and her son, who have
an influence on his life. The only thing standing between him and happiness is
a husband with a violent personality.
From the beginning, Detectives Peterson and Dempsey become a concern
for our hero, a man determined to make someone pay for his sister’s death. As
the bodies pile up, additional problems arise to slow him down. And his old
partner from his army days arrives with issues of his own.
Will the man who is out for justice succeed in his quest? Can he
deliver retribution?
Does he ever quench the anger that pierces his soul? Can he stay a
step ahead of the detectives who are intent on putting him behind bars, all the
while carrying out the plan he has laid out for himself?
And how does he handle the situation with the woman who comes into his
life without getting her tangled up in his problems?
Dealing with his past and the obstacles determined to thwart his
plans, our army veteran attempts to establish a new life for himself, only to
face adversity at every turn.”
Author:
A writer all his life, J.R. Wheeless was writing a weekly column for
his local newspaper as a high school senior. His writing was more personal for
a lot of years, journals he kept for himself and such, but in 2015 he published
his first book and he has had several since then, some fiction, some
non-fiction, some novels, some short story collections.
Appraisal:
As I was pondering this book one thing that struck me is how in a
story like this it is possible for the reader to get behind and be pulling for
a protagonist who could accurately be described as a mass murderer. As law
enforcement is looking for him, trying to figure out who is doing this to
arrest them, he’s doing his best to prevent that from happening and figure out
who killed his sister, his ultimate target. As a reader, we’re pulling for him
to meet his goal. Sometimes a “bad guy” by most definitions can still be a good
guy. What the ultimate conclusion is, I’m not saying, other than to wonder if
he’s done now or if there is more to come.
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Format/Typo
Issues:
No significant issues
Rating: ****
Four Stars
Reviewed
by: BigAl
Approximate word count: 80-85,000 words
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