Review: Great thriller
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 18, 2012
At the Gates of Walhalla is a mystery thriller that centers around the life of Kurt Sorenson who is a border patrol officer.  Without giving away too much detail, the book starts off with Kurt and his family, his wife Lupe and twin sons Matt and Mark,  living in Texas. Certain circumstances find Kurt relocating to his home town of Walhalla in Canada. Drugs have infiltrated Walhalla and along with this comes crime. Kurt is on a mission to stop the drugs from entering and to restore Walhalla back to the beautiful, peaceful town it used to be. In order to do this he enlists the help of 2 other officers, John and Steve, and also 10 other residents from the town. I recently read another similar book about border patrol officers and drug trafficking called The Smell of Duty (Neglected War) by Elias Rodriguez.I found this book filled with a lot of suspense and mystery at the very beginning, however, I thought that some of the first quarter of the book lost my interest. Some of the background history of the main character could have been left out. But soon after that, the book became very suspenseful and I found it hard to put down. The way Kurt dealt with the drug dealers was a little gruesome but I thought it was an original, although shocking, idea. I loved the twist of who was involved with the drug dealers (I don't want to reveal a spoiler). I couldn't put the book down, I loved it! If you like mysteries or thrillers, you would be sure to love this also.