A Lifetime of Vengeance

by P.J. Grondin

Young, impressionable. The McKinney Brothers are in deep before they know it. It's hard to turn away from easy money in the Florida drug trade. Recreational use quickly became a six figure income. But what seems too good to be true usually is, especially when business relations turn deadly. The plan to retaliate goes haywire. All they want is to get their lives back in A Lifetime of Vengeance.

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First published February 19, 2010

Reviews

[Pete Grondin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Full disclosure, this is one of my eight novels.

[Debra · Rating 4 out of 5]

Brothers Pat, Joe, and Mike McKinney are making big bucks through their marijuana grow-op business. Greed gets the better of them, though, and because of this the brothers are eventually betrayed by friends. When Mike’s young wife is brutally raped and murdered by these same friends, Mike is all but destroyed. Obsessed with the need for vengeance, Pat and Joe concoct a long range plan. When payback time finally arrives, a twist in events triggers an increasingly dangerous cat and mouse game.

A Lifetime of Vengeance is an intense story that kicks the concept of revenge up to a disturbing level. When it comes to mystery and suspense, I love to know why people do the things they do and author P.J. Grondin does an excellent job of answering this question. In fact, motives are brought out in painstaking detail that vividly shows the brothers’ anguish.

At times, the back story is a little long and hindered by unnecessary details. Also, introductions to new characters always start with physical descriptions that are tough to remember. Still, kudos to Grondin for telling an interesting tale of brothers who are neither good or bad, but submerged in murky, ethically questionable shades of gray. In this book, making the right decision doesn’t come easily and the suspense ramps up to a satisfying ending.

[Vanetra Malone · Rating 4 out of 5]

For this book to be, this was a good read.

[M.T. Bass · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting twist on good guys who went bad trying to do right again. Should be a good set up for the series -- looking forward to #2.