Review: Gripping short story!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 28, 2014
While Detective Will Trent was hovering beside the "Icee" machine, waiting impatiently for the decrepit old machine to spit out his favourite drink, his reverie was interrupted by the arrival of a local cop. The gas station where he had stopped was run-down, as was a lot of the surrounding county. But Will was undercover as ex-con, Bill Black – when the cop asked was that “his” machine outside, Will grunted; it didn’t do to talk to a cop when you were a criminal.But suddenly all hell broke loose – a brazen day-light robbery, a shooting, and an old pick-up truck with a wounded man fleeing the scene – Will took off after the truck on his bike after dialling 911. The results of the next few hours were chaotic; with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation on the scene, the bodies were mounting. So much for being undercover! What would happen? And who were the latest criminals to enter Will’s life?Another brilliant novella by Karin Slaughter. The usual gripping tension, with a plot tidied up nicely in a short space of time. I found this to be a really entertaining read and in no way lacking because of it being a novella. Highly recommended.