Review: BROTHERS AND BONES
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 7, 2014
This was one of the best reads I've had in a while.  Totally compelling with no dull moments or side rabbit trails to bore the reader.  Hankins wrote about a ton of characters all from different walks and shades of life.  Usually that spells boredom or at least confusion for the reader as it pounds the drums to massive overload.  That was so not the case here, each of the characters were needed for cognizant players in the storyline and each were fleshed out to make them believable and necessary.Assistant Attorney, Charlie Beckham of the United States Attorney General's Office for the State of Massachusetts had a sterling legal carrier.  His quick rise to fame included being a member of the States Organized Crime Task Force, that dealt with putting away mafia criminals.  He was very good at what he did, and was happy in his private life as well as he was engaged to the bosses daughter.The only thing that held Charlie back from everything life had to offer was the loss of his beloved brother Jake who had raised Charlie after their parents had been killed in a car accident.  Jake had been missing for thirteen years and Charlie devoted his life to finding Jake, hopefully alive.  The book evolves around Charlie's search for Jake and leads him deep into the world of organized crime and the dangers if being a man on the run.Truly worth the read.  Mr. Hankins is now in that list of authors that I immediately check to see if they've anything new on the shelf.