Review: Outta the park baby
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 15, 2013
This was one great read. Holy cow.Lucas Walker is an FBI agent.Walkers  made a name for himself in solving serial killings. He's very very good at what he does.In fact he's becoming the go to guy for anything that looks like a serial killer case.His old partner Nielson is now his SAC. He knows exactly how Walker works and what makes him tick. He's also there for anything Walker may need. Any case Walker solves looks good on Nielson's record as SAC.Walker is also a guy who doesn't take himself to seriously and has a sense of humor. He's also able to read expressions. This comes in handy when it applies to his job. Catching killers.Walker is half native American through his Father. His Father was killed during the first gulf war and his mother died of cancer when he was young.Walker was raised by his maternal grandparents and had never been contacted by his Fathers relatives.That all changed when Walker is assigned to a case in the Sonoran Desert on the reservation of his Fathers people.The case involves a giant drawing on the side of a red rock escapment. The drawing is done in blood. Loads and loads of blood but no body has been found. No tracks either.Once walker sees the drawing he heads for the reservation police station where he meets Chief Antone and learns that this isn't the first such drawing found. In fact the Chief lets him know its the third one they have found. No bodies. No tracks. He says he had faxed the info to the FBI and was expecting Walker.So begins one helluva good story.Walker meets his Uncle and Cousin. His Uncle seems glad to see him and share some of his growing up years with his brother, Walkers Father. But his cousin appears to hate him.Walker feels extremely uncomfortable. Kinda hard to meet relatives you have never spent minute one thinking about. Relatives who have never made a move to contact you at all.This story is loaded with multiple  murders, loads of gore,  intrigue, machinations, a mastermind who does in fact accomplish his mission and Walker doing his very best, which is very very good indeed, to end the killing and catch the killer.Just one great read and worth way more than those five stars.Would sure love to see Lucas Walker in more novels. Hope your reading Mr. McBride.