Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Swift Vengeance by T. Jefferson Parker


Roland Ford is a P.I. living on a small ranch just outside San Diego.  He is still mourning the death of his wife when a friend, Lindsay Rakes hires him to protect her from a death threat.  Lindsay is a former Air Force drone operator who was stationed near Las Vegas.  Even though her attacks on ISIS took place thousands of miles from the battlefield, her PTSD symptoms are just as real as the soldiers who fought hand-to-hand combat on foreign soil.  

Roland puts her up in one of his guest cottages at the ranch and enlists the aid of FBI agent Joan Taucher.  Joan specializes in domestic terrorism and respects Roland enough to allow him to participate in the hunt.  While searching for the perpetrator, two of Lindsay’s former crew members are brutally beheaded.  Roland thinks he has identified the suspect but now is facing the challenge of his life.  How can he bring the bad guy out in the open, keep the FBI on his team and protect Lindsay, all at the same time?

T. Jefferson Parker has developed a great new protagonist in Roland Ford.  A tough guy with as many vulnerabilities as investigative skills, Roland maintains his high moral code in hunting down the bad guys… great entertainment.  T. Jefferson Parker may be working his way back onto my list of top ten authors.

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