Review: First in the Logan Harper series.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 5, 2012
Little Girl Gone is the first in the Logan Harper series from Brett Battles - (his Cleaner series is not to be missed).  In the opening installment Harper breaks up an attempt on the life of his father's best friend - Tooney.  Harper's immediate reaction is to call the police, but Tooney, his father and friends of both want no part of the police.  It seems Tooney's daughter is a political dissident and the attempt is tied to silencing her.  Part of that plan is to abduct her daughter, Tooney's granddaughter.Harper does some preliminary investigation into the granddaughter's apparent kidnapping and is convinced to find her and bring her back to Tooney.  All of this lays over Harper's own backstory as a former employee of a private defense contractor.  His best friend and brother of his wife was killed in an ambush and Harper was left holding the bag.  He lost his friend, his wife and his life as he knew it.  He is just getting back to a routine he can live with - being a mechanic in his dad's garage.The search for the missing girl takes him halfway across the world and into the political intrigue of a dangerous region.  Harper is helped along the way but must rely on his own wits and abilities.Battles writes a concise, taut thriller - look forward to more in this series.