Review: "The Perfect Spine-Tingling Thriller"
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 12, 2013
If you like thrillers, especially the macabre thrillers of Jeffery Deaver, you will definitely like this novel by Douglas Wickard. This is a story about professional married men arriving in San Francisco on business for a couple of days, and never making their meetings or even returning home.  Alex Kitas is taking a retreat from his perfect life:  job, wife, children, all of which he finds boring.  He arrives in San Francisco to also satisfy his sexual hungers.  He enjoys such forays while on business trips, it was his well-planned secret.  But this time, the results were anything but pleasurable and erotic as he lays on a massage table and is suddenly drugged, losing all muscle control, and then glimpses a sharp knife as it makes the first ... cut.  His wife, Rhonda receives no word from Alex and becomes very concerned.  She leaves her children with their grandparents and flies to San Francisco and eventually reports him as a missing person.  Inspector Vanessa Sanchez of SFPD is assigned to the case. Vanessa is a very professional law enforcer since her dad, Teddy Romano, had in his past assisted Harry Wright from Quantico on the "Trailside Killer" case.  She's a divorced mother of a young girl, and while at a local gym meets Lucas who works at the gym.  They eventually start dating and she's hopeful he'll be everything that he appears.  On their first date, as they depart, little do they know that someone is watching them from the shadows.  Alex is the fourth missing man, and the fifth is the son of a very rich man who pushes the SFPD to include the FBI in working this case.  Coming on scene is Harry Wright, expert profiler, and the mentor of newly graduated FBI Agent Dan Hammer.  Many characters in this exciting, pulsing thriller seem to have secrets.  Who will break this case?  This novel is uniquely written with much briefly descriptive detail to help you visualize the settings.  The story is potent and tense, one you will not want to put down.  Without a doubt, Douglas Wickard knows how to write a wicked thriller!  Read it!