Slash and Burn
Joe Hunter: Book Three
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Publisher Description
Joe Hunter is enjoying some much needed r&r when a young woman approaches him to help find her missing sister Imogen. Kate Piers knows about Joe from her dead brother Jake, Hunter's former comrade in arms, and for that reason alone he feels obliged to help. The fact that Kate is very attractive doesn't hurt.
Together they go to Imogen's Kentucky home where they are immediately attacked by a bunch of thugs, acting on behalf of local businessman Robert Huffman. Huffman outwardly respectable but the psychotic twins he uses as his enforcers give the game away: he has links to organised crime and a deadly reputation with a blade. Huffman is also looking for Imogen, and kidnaps Kate to act as bait. Looks like Joe is in trouble again . . .
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Near the outset of Hilton's action-packed third thriller featuring former counterterrorist operative Joe Hunter (after 2010's Judgment and Wrath), Kate Piers, the sister of a late colleague of Hunter's, persuades him to accompany her to Kentucky to track down her missing sister, Imogen. On their arrival at Imogen's burglarized house in a remote part of Appalachia, the pair encounter some gunmen, kicking off a body count that reaches Die Hard proportions. The roster of bad guys would do a James Bond film proud, including murderous twins and their psychotic boss, who's known as Quicksilver for his fast knife work. Early on, Hunter lets a violent sociopath escape, reasoning that he could always kill the guy "another time," a nonsensical decision that unsurprisingly comes back to haunt him. Those who don't mind repeated contrivances that sacrifice logic to prolong the plot will be most rewarded.
