Review: THE KING hits a homerun!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 5, 2013
Troubled FBI agent Jon Stevens is on a short fuse (in more ways than one). One of the world's richest men, Internet wunderkind Billy Stone, aka the King, has been kidnapped. Stevens has a really bad feeling about this one, and for good reason.Cutting back and forth from present to past scenes, Soper does a masterful job of revealing the buildup to the kidnapping, and your sense of dread grows with each little bit. Heartfelt characters are skillfully drawn in grays, and you really feel for them.This is the second in Rick Soper's FBI Agent Stevens series I've read, the first being THE BAINBRIDGE KILLINGS. I liked that one, a classic whodunit. This one is better. Taking a different approach, it rockets along and quickly becomes an out-and-out thriller. Pick it up and get drawn in. I sure did.