Ultimately one is left with an examination of the power of emotions and a confrontation with darkness. Good fiction does that and Walking Wounded is just that. If I had edited Shards for author Piccirilli, I would have told him to rewrite the first three chapters and make them six. The story moves so quickly the reader is swept along at a dizzying pace. The thing is. .
Shards is no roller coaster.
It's a hijacked bullet train speeding through the dark. Once you start reading be prepared to buckle your seat belt and stay with the ride. If Shards did nothing more than follow him and his confrontation with the dark lives surrounding the suicide of the very young, very rich, very attractive Susan Hartford, it would be a good read. On yet another level it is a novel of self-knowledge. The action-packed plot twists and turns and amazes right up to its riveting end.