No Other Option
Jonny Maxwell is a rapist, a murderer, and a thief who cuts a bloody  swath across the Midwest after a breakout from Leavenworth. But he's also an ex- operative for Dominance Rain, an ultra-secret special ops team spawned by the  CIA and the Defense Department. Pursuing him are Minnesota state and local cops,  the Fugitive Investigative Strike Team, a supercharged cadre of U.S. marshals,  and Dale Miller, his Rain teammate and formerly his best friend, who's been  assigned to bring him in. Jonny's smart, tough, and ruthless, and Marcus Wynne's  debut thriller, while short on narrative coherence, nuance, and character  development, is long on weaponry, explosives, and testosterone. It's your basic  chase movie dressed up as a thriller, and while the outcome is never in doubt,  there are enough eviscerated bodies and exploding booby traps to keep the action  moving until the last paragraph. Wynne throws in a little subplot involving a  romance between a trash-talking Minneapolis lady detective and the taciturn hero  trailing the man who taught him his tradecraft, but it hardly matters to the  lovers or the reader.--Jane Adams