Mercy River
A Van Shaw Novel
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- 9,99 €
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- 9,99 €
Publisher Description
'Jack Reacher may just have a fresh rival.' Daily Mail
'Put Mercy River in the So Damn Good column ... I couldn't put it down.' MEG GARDINER
When Van Shaw receives a distress call from his fellow Afghan War veteran, Leo Pak, he has to leave the urban hazards of Seattle to head far south to a town called Broken Ridge, deep in the wild heart of rural Oregon.
Leo faces charges of murdering a local gun dealer, and while Van doesn't doubt his friend's innocence, he knows he faces conviction. As Van starts his own covert investigations, the small town is suddenly awash with Army Ranger veterans, converging for a raucous annual Rally. Was it only this reunion that brought Leo to town? Or is someone at the Rally setting Leo up to cover for their own dark designs?
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At the start of Edgar finalist Hamilton's excellent fourth Van Shaw novel (after 2017's Every Day Above Ground), Shaw, a former U.S. Army Ranger, gets a call from a member of his platoon, Leo Pak, whom the police are about to arrest for murder. Shaw races from his home in Seattle to Mercy River, Ore., to help, but the evidence is compelling. Pak was seen entering Erle Sharples's gun store minutes before Sharples was shot to death. Pak tested positive for gunshot residue, blood was on his shoes, and Pak's fingerprints were on shells found at the crime scene. Shaw realizes that Pak is withholding information, but his efforts to exonerate his friend are complicated when Pak pleads guilty. The inquiry takes a different turn when Shaw discovers that Sharples had a hidden stash of a powerful painkiller that was pulled from the market for being too dangerous. Evocative prose (Mercy River's buildings and houses look as if they've "been scattered across the land like big handfuls of dice") makes comparisons with Lee Child's work apt. Hamilton successfully integrates a whodunit plot into an action-packed thriller peopled with fully realized characters.
