Has nothing really new to offer to the thriller genre: the standard guilt-ridden hero, the vile psychopath out for revenge, and an explosive finale. Having said that, it is a book which would keep you engaged at the airport. Could have been better, had the author not tried too hard for the dramatic touch with extended descriptions of his characters' feelings over and over again. Also, flashbacks interjected at the wrong moments sometimes take away from the momentum of the story. A couple of promising characters ended up doing nothing. A tighter editing should have kept the book at least a hundred pages shorter and would have made it a more taut thriller. This would make a good movie, though.
I started reading this and remembered I read it already.
What do You think about The Last Family (1997)?
ex DEA head badly wounded in a failed drug bust is called back from years of living tucked away by himself in the mountains. estranged from his wife and chidren and his face badly disfigured, he had no desire to get back into society. Only when he learns that the mastermind of the filed bust and a renegade ex agent has been systematically killing the families of the agents who were involved in that failed bust and his family is the only one left. What follows is a war of nerves and plot, counter plot as the two side circle in for the final confrontation. Action and suspense keep the reader glued to the pages to discover how it all turns out.
—Bob
