Swift Vengeance by T. Jefferson Parker – Review & Giveaway

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Description:
Returning hero and private investigator Roland Ford is on the trail of a mysterious killer who is beheading CIA drone operators and leaving puzzling clues at each crime scene. His troubled friend, Lindsay Rakes, is afraid for her own life and the life of her son after a fellow flight crew member is killed in brutal fashion. Even more terrifying is the odd note the killer left behind: “Welcome to Caliphornia. This is not the last.” Ford strikes an uneasy alliance with San Diego-based FBI agent Joan Taucher, who is tough as nails but haunted by what sees as the Bureau’s failure to catch the 9/11 terrorists, many of whom spent their last days in her city. As the killer strikes again, Ford and Taucher dash into the fray, each desperate for their own reasons–each ready to risk it all to stop the killer from doing far more damage.

Review:

Swift Vengeance by T. Jefferson Parker is an exciting pulse-pounding  thriller.  This is my first time reading Parker, who is a three times Edgar award winning author.

Roland Ford, our hero, is a private investigator and former marine.  Roland finds himself in the middle of helping a friend in danger.  His friend Lindsay, a former CIA drone operator, has received a note threatening to behead her.  When two former members of the drone team were brutally murdered and beheaded, Roland must try to discover who the culprit (Caliphornia) is, in order to save Lindsay from a sure death.

Roland will team up with FBI agent, Joan Taucher, a tough, no nonsense, high ranking agent based in San Diego, and together they will look for all the clues that will narrow down the search for a terrorist who is avenging the death of someone killed in one of those drone attacks that Lindsay’s team was involved in years before. 

This was a very exciting, fast paced, non-stop action packed adventure to find the person behind these terrorist attacks before he kills again.  As they get closer to finding the murderer, there a few surprise violent encounters that were brutal and escalated the search.

I will not say too much more, as I do not want to spoil it for those reading this book.  Swift Vengeance was a very well done edge of your seat suspenseful thriller, and Parker had us on the edge of our seat, especially in the last ¼ of the book.  As we raced to this exciting explosive climax, we had no idea who would survive.  I suggest you read Swift Vengeance, which was excellently written by T. Jefferson Parker.

Reviewed by Barb

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