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3.0 out of 5 starsMain Character Brings The Story Down
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 2, 2013
This is the second book that I read by Gregg Hurowitz. I really enjoyed They're Watching and felt the tensson and suspense from start to finish in that book.
There were a lot of good things about TroubleShooter. First, the plot where Tim Rackley was going after a motorcycyle gang called the Laughing Sinners. They seemed just as scarey if not more scarey than the Sons of Anarchy.
What started as Den Laurey escaping police custody on the LA Freeway where several US Marshalls were killed drove Rackley to go after the gang with two of his sidekicks, Bear and Guerrera. Much of the tension from there is Rackley's efforts to bring Den Laurey to justice but something seems to block him all the time and Laurey manages to slip from his grasp.
I didn't expect this to also involve a plot that reached into Afganistan with the Tears of Allah but I thought that moved the story along well as well. There were great action scenes such as the escape and a shootout between a member of the Sinners and Rackley.
The story kept moving further when Rackley's pregant wife, Dray, was attacked during a prison shootout. Rackley was down and out having to be there for his wife and at the same time trying to avenge the attack by Den Laurey.
Dialogue with Guerrera and Bear was sharp and they were characters that came off the page. It was hard for me to get a good reading on Rackley. Maybe it was me but I didn't feel the tension of the plot with him and Laurey like the tension and edge of my seat suspense from They're Watching.
Gregg Hurwitz is a great writer and I will be reading more of his books. As for this one, I'll go 3-1/2 stars.
