Iron River
A Charlie Hood Novel
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4.1 • 163 Ratings
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- $3.99
Publisher Description
For fans of Michael Connelly and CJ Box, the third thrilling novel in the Charlie Hood series from New York Times bestseller and Edgar-award winner T. Jefferson Parker, now including an excerpt from his upcoming novel The Room of White Fire.
Along the U.S./Mexico border, a man named Finnegan wakes up in the border-town of Buenavista after a hit and run-eerily aware of events he should know nothing about, $90,000 richer, and with Charlie Hood's name and address in his wallet.
Meanwhile when tracking the flow of illegal guns into Mexico, Hood's team accidentally kills the son of Benjamin Armenta, head of the Gulf Cartel and one of the most violent men in the world. Now, Hood must work to grasp the enigmatic forces fighting for control of Buenavista- forces that circle back to Finnegan, and to Armenta's unstoppable plan for brutal vengeance.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In bestseller Parker's disappointing third Charlie Hood novel (after The Renegades), Hood, a Los Angeles sheriff's deputy, joins Operation Blowdown, an attempt to staunch the near constant flow of money and guns across the U.S.-Mexican border. When a shootout during a botched weapons buy leaves the son of the head of a powerful Mexican cartel dead, the fight becomes personal as cartel soldiers cross the border to take revenge on Hood's team. Meanwhile, a faulty product has driven Pace Arms, a family-owned gun manufacturer, nearly to bankruptcy. Unbeknownst to Hood, the man brokering an illegal deal between Pace and another Mexican cartel chief for the production of a revolutionary handgun is Bradley Smith (aka Bradley Jones), the son of bank robber Allison Murrietta, the antiheroine of L.A. Outlaws, the first and best entry in the series. In this installment, the massive scale of the criminal activity overwhelms the characters.
Customer Reviews
Awesome read, right from the beginning!!
This book grabbed me from the beginning and didn't let go! Amazing storyline and unbelievable twists and turns.
You won't regret this book!
Too much supernatural
This the third Charlie Hood novel I’ve read. Some of it was ok , but it became pretty silly. Particularly with “ Mike” who after a devastating hit by a speeding car, survives and heals with remarkable speed. Then he starts “ knowing “ things he shouldn’t about an ATFE task force, apparently with some kind of psychic powers.
None of this is ever explained, nor was there any resolution to the untraceable guns that were shipped to Mexican cartel kingpin. The book just ends. Perhaps it’s a strategy to get readers to buy the next book to find out what happens. I’ll pass
Iron River
This is the 3rd book (out of 6) in the Charley Hood series, and so far they are getting progressively worse. Plots are repetitive in each book, Hood comes across as a doofus who is continually out-smarted by the son of his lover from book 1 in the series, and this book is plagued by a weird little character with seemingly supernatural powers and no explained purpose. Don’t waste your time on this one (and probably not the first two, either). T. Jefferson Parker is better than this.