The Betrayal
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4.5 • 12 Ratings
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
Detective Boone Drake has just masterminded the most massive sting in Chicago history, bringing down the heads of not only the biggest street gangs in the city but also the old crime syndicate. The story is the biggest in decades, and the Chicago Police Department must protect the key witness at all costs. Despite top-secret plans to transfer the witness ahead of his testimony before the grand jury, an attempt is made on his life. And the person suspected of leaking this information may be one of the CPD's own.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Jenkins has moved from end times (the megaselling Left Behind series) to crime times, and it's a smart move. Boone Drake is a Chicago police detective who was almost fatally shot at the end of the earlier novel (The Brotherhood) in the police thriller series Precinct 11. As he recovers, Drake faces a profound conundrum: someone in the Chicago PD appears to have leaked information to the shooter, violating the strict code of police solidarity. Worse, evidence suggests it could be his new girlfriend Haeley. Jenkins is a consummate novelist: his plotting is nicely sneaky, his dialogue crackling. Evangelical Christian fiction plot elements logically fit in a life-and-death crime thriller; a lot of people talk to God in high stakes situations. The motivation of the villain might be better developed, but that's relatively minor. This is good popcorn, with more to come.
Customer Reviews
Cat and Mouse...
This novel hinges more from a stand point of " A who dunnit" seating itself as a different animal from the first. Initially, my reaction to its original novel was a compulsive "must have, must buy" after I read the sample. I still hold it as a favorite yet caution potential readers to avoid all, every review about series and book. Read after.
Impression: Not as nail bitting as the first, but readable nonetheless.