Review: A  gripping thriller!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 22, 2013
Blake Sanders and best friend Perry Langford were up to mischief once again. But Blake didn't want to join Perry when he went into the laboratory on the university campus to "borrow" some items he needed - Blake decided to keep a watch out. So it was that in the middle of that night, with the darkness complete, Blake and Perry's lives changed - the explosion made sure of that.Twenty years later and Blake didn't think about those days all that often. He didn't know that Perry had been released from prison until he was informed Langford was out to get revenge on everyone involved, including Blake. For Langford had claimed he was innocent right from the beginning; did Blake know what had 'really' happened?When policeman friend Charlie invited Blake to his parents' house for a barbeque one weekend, they hadn't even opened their first beer when all hell broke loose! Holding off the black-clad masked gunmen, both Charlie and Blake thought their days were numbered, but when it was all over, Charlie was the one with a bullet in his side, and his parents were both missing. When the police and ambulance arrived, Charlie was rushed to hospital while Blake was questioned relentlessly.When events began to escalate, the connection to the past and Langford seemed to be clear. But why? What was going on; why had Charlie's parents vanished; what had they to do with the explosion twenty years ago? When the FBI plus Naval Intelligence's Reyna Chase became involved, and the gunmen appeared once again, gunning specifically for Blake, he knew he had to vanish himself. He was over getting shot at; he needed to unravel the secrets from the past if he was going to stay alive.Keeping one step ahead of everyone was proving to be a problem - would he manage to stay alive as well as solve the mystery? Who was on his side? There was exhaustion, murder and treachery in the mix - the speed of events was threatening everything....This was a brilliant thriller, the second in the Blake Sanders series. I found it hard to get into at first, but once I did, the pace was fast! The twists and turns were gripping, the plot involved. My one complaint of the repeated error of e.g. "sixty"60, "ninety-seven"97 all the way through the book was a little off-putting, but that could be corrected with editing. A great thriller, one I have no hesitation in recommending.With thanks to NetGalley and the author for my copy to read and review.