Review: Very Engrossing
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 26, 2014
Boone Childress is a college student who has returned from serving in the military overseas.  He's also just completed training for volunteer fire fighting, and, as this book opens, is headed to his first call.  It seems like a straightforward fire at an abandoned farm, but for the fact that the drunk living in an old Airstream on the property says he heard two explosions, which threw him off his sofa.  Of course, no one else believes him, and no one is interested in seeing the finger he collected from his front porch after the second explosion.  Upon further research, Boone learns that a similar fire occurred at a different abandoned farm a few days earlier.  "Mexicans" are being attacked and beaten in town (including Boone's Japanese friend Luigi), and then a third old farmhouse explodes, killing an old Hispanic woman.  It's a well written, fast moving story.