Primed For Vengeance by Gill D. Anderson

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


A psychological thriller of hidden torment and a plot for revenge.

Butch has been let down down multiple times throughout his short life, left feeling abandoned and heartbroken.

Sarah, leading a team of youth workers, is determined to help improve the lives of the young people under her care.

But, when Sarah leaves the care unit, it is one more loss that Butch cannot bear. As his obsessive thirst for revenge dominates his life, it threatens to explode into carnage and leave a series of victims in his wake.

'Primed for Vengence' is a standalone thriller by Gill D. Anderson that grips from the very beginning, opening with a chilling insight into Butch's psyche, before flashbacks begin to reveal the events that led to this point. The key characters are well-developed, their thoughts and emotions guiding the plot throughout and offering different perspectives as the story develops.

The novel also explores the inner workings of the residential care system. While procedurally it may no longer represent the system in its native Australia, it nonetheless demonstrates how the way in which institutions deal with troubled individuals, across the education, social care and justice systems, has a major impact and can lead to potentially damaging results when a system with such a high duty of care is under increasing pressure.

Building to an intense climax, we witness the profile in action of a disturbed, vulnerable and volatile young man whose mental health issues, history of neglect, abuse and trauma, and his past and current circumstances, have contributed to him becoming an unstable and dangerous criminal who seeks to harm others in response to his own suffering.

Emotionally-driven and fast-paced, 'Primed for Vengeance' is an engrossing story of tragedy, delusion and violence.



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