The Devil's Feather
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4.0 • 11 Ratings
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
A blistering new thriller about the horrors of war and the struggle to survive in the face of pure evil. Foreign correspondent Connie Burns is hunting a British mercenary that she believes is responsible for the rape and murder of five women in Sierra Leone in 2002. Two years later she finds him training Iraqi police in Baghdad. Connie is determined to expose his crimes, but then she is kidnapped and released after three days of unspeakable torture. Silently, she returns to England and attempts to isolate herself, but it soon becomes apparent that the horrors of the world and her own nightmarish past aren’t so easy to escape from.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
British author Walters's harrowing 12th psychological chiller spotlights violent suffering and hard-won triumph for Connie Burns, a 36-year-old Reuters war correspondent who crosses a sadistic mercenary alternately identified as John Harwood, Kenneth McConnell and Keith MacKenzie. When she finds MacKenzie training Iraqi policemen in Baghdad in 2004, she links him to serial killings in Sierra Leone two years earlier. An enraged MacKenzie kidnaps, tortures, rapes and releases Connie, who is then too traumatized to coherently divulge details of her abduction. She retreats to a country house in Dorset, where she puzzles over the troubled past of the house ("a place of anguish") and hesitantly befriends her neighbors, the handsome Dr. Peter Coleman and Jess Derbyshire, a reclusive young woman who helps Connie heal from her ordeal. While she gradually recovers, she also lives with the surety that MacKenzie will come after her again. Walters (Disordered Minds) delivers an intense, engrossingly structured tour de force about survival and "the secret of freedom, courage."
Customer Reviews
Not worth your time.
So when I first saw this book I was instantly intrigued because I love thriller and mystery stuff. And the book is about a woman and a killer. Throughout my read there was no moment that would grip me to the edge or make me shocked. It’s just too boring. And the killer only made appearances in like two chapters I think. Instead of being a chilling thriller story, literally 2/3 of the book is filled with some mysterious family history and their dramas which have no connections and aren’t related to the original supposed-to-be story. I’m giving it two stars because I like one particular character. But still I regret that I wasted my time on this book.