Review: More thinking than thrilling.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 27, 2012
The tags for this book on Smashwords are "fiction, thriller, suspense, murder, action, kidnap". These are accurate, but what they don't include is "romance", "love", or "endless soul searching".I enjoyed the writing style, but thought that the story was illogical.Our hero, Nick Hunter, is an ex-Army, ex-gun for hire tortured by an incident from his army days. He meets the love of his life on a beach and he determines to leave the work he has been doing and devote himself to his new love.Everything goes according to plan until someone from his past decides that murdering his wife and kidnapping his son is the best way to make him help them with a "job". What follows is Nick being led around the country until the day of the job. This is well done and readable. What threw me out of the story was that I could not imagine why they needed him at all. The final straw to break this reviewers back was when a four-year old swims across a reservoir at night to feel safer than being on dry land. And a hero who spends most of his time thinking rather than doing.More Romance than Thriller, this was not my cup of tea.(I read the Kindle Edition which I downloaded for free during a promotion).