Review: GREAT PLOT
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 19, 2013
There were quite a few balls in the air with this story--a hunt for a killer, a hunt for a mountain lion, with racial tension thrown in from the get go.  I enjoyed this story immensely, and the author's seamless construction of a many part tale was flawless.  I liked the fact that Corrie Knox was not depicted as a hot chick who just happened to become a forest service employee.  Instead, she was a plain, sensible, somewhat attractive woman.  In fact, most of the characters were understated types, with the exception of the haters and the criminals.The racial strife I believed was depicted very well, although it did overwhelm the rest of the plot later in the book, and I found myself skimming, instead of reading thoroughly.  I also felt the mountain lion's last hurrah was overwrought and not as easy to believe as if he had been taken down outside, or in his own habitat.  Additionally, I don't believe a glib remark like telling the mountain lion that it may need an antacid to help digest the body of the person it had just killed is something that one would say after having witnessed the mauling death and having come so close to her own death, as was the case with the script writer.In all, this is a smooth, well written piece that I would recommend to others, and I will look for more of Flynn's books.