Justifiable: Oregon

by Pamela Wright

Justifiable Oregon is a gripping novel inspired by the global sex trafficking trade and the world’s obsession with anti-aging formulas.When the cartels discover a way to combine the two into a multi-billion dollar empire, they will destroy anyone who dares to interfere in their newest enhancement drug trade.Have you ever wished something bad would happen to someone evil because God and the law took too long? There are those who risk it all for the rest of us, as they take it upon themselves to right the wrongs of this world.Duplicity is the exquisite yacht manned by such men. Men intent on luring the world’s wealthiest human traffickers out of their millions and into their final moments on, Terrible Tilly, Oregon’s most infamous lighthouse rising out of the sea on a rock fortress. And with their most dangerous interrogator, John.Sarah returns to her hometown of Seaside, where she reunites with her high school love, Dan Morrison. When Morrison Investigations is hired to find out who or what is killing pro-athletes, Dan finds he’s on a collision course with cartel retribution and with, Sarah, as collateral damage.As, Dan tries to stay one step ahead of cartel thugs, Sarah finds herself trapped by a terrible storm and as, John’s newest obsession—on Tilly.

308 pages, Paperback

First published June 21, 2011

Reviews

[Viviane Crystal · Rating 4 out of 5]

Tilamook Rock Lighthouse in Seaside, Oregon is a scary place all by itself, but what goes on inside this fortress is even more frightening than anyone could contemplate. For whoever is brought here in a drugged state is first subjected to tortured interrogation followed by death and cremation, with no traces left that anyone ever existed here. The cause is “justifiable” as the title of the series suggests, get the details of the crime and eliminate the criminals who would normally never be caught. The plot thickens as we learn that a current investigation has to do with a drug cartel who are pumping already superstar athletes with performance-enhancing chemical drugs that guarantee success. But there’s a huge problem when athletes start dropping dead and it’s discovered that what killed them is far from what was suspected by those testing for addicted champions.

The Doctor who is handing out these drugs has no idea of their real content and so is so stunned upon discovering what could not expose his guilt but prove to be his total undoing as an athlete physician caring for men and women expected to be “winners.” The threat of unexpected death looms in many quarters beyond what the reader can imagine at the beginning of this tautly plotted, nerve-wracking novel.

Dan Morrison knows this is way over his specialized skills and seeks help from others known as the Special Forces team, at the same time knowing that his progression deeper into this mystery could put his friend Sarah into a serious position of jeopardy. But even Dan realizes he doesn’t know Sarah or her past so well, especially what she has sacrificed in the name of past missions as well as the present case. Traffickers and pedophiles are the subject at hand and the cartel doesn’t stop there. One team will search the world if necessary to find the lost and taken, eliminating the scum that preys on the weak and helpless.

Pamela Wright has penned a deftly plotted, well-written action novel in which all characters rivet the reader’s attention, up to the last shocking scene in a devastating war of in which the members of a righteous team forge through tense conflicts and scenarios and have no problem justifying their final solution! Gripping, plausible read! The scales of justice are balanced with a unique method of saving the innocent.

[Kathleen Kelly · Rating 4 out of 5]

Justifiable Oregon is a story about the evil that one person can do to another. The action is set around the Tillamook Rock Lighthouse, Terrible Tilly as it is called by the locals, Seaside Oregon. This particular lighthouse is used as a legal crematorium, but is also used for illegal activities founded in greed in which the caretaker of the crematorium carries out. It is a love story also between Sarah, who came to Seaside to grieve for her deceased husband, and Dan, who was her high school classmates. Sarah is a photographer and Dan is a private investigator who come together to renew their relationships. The two of them find themselves embroiled in the illegal activities that are carried out in the lighthouse. The illegal activities include human trafficking and murder. Human trafficking is an atrocity to men, women and children alike in that they are sold as sex slaves or work slaves wherever there are buyers. The authors goal, in writing this book and other activities she is involved in, is to bring awareness to this horrible thing done to people all around the world. It certainly opened up my eyes. I really enjoyed this book and look forward to reading the series.

[Sandra Stiles · Rating 5 out of 5]

After reading the first few chapters the “Dexter” series came to mind. In case you don’t remember it, or you’ve never seen it, Dexter was a cop who worked in the police lab. His specialty was blood. At night he hunted down and killed those who managed to get off for some technicality, and justice was served.
Often we hear cases of criminals getting off scott free. What if there was a force that took care of those criminals that were put back on the street? In Justifiable Oregon that is just what happens. There is a group of people who take those very criminals out to the Tilamook Rock Lighthouse in Seaside Oregon. There the criminal arrives drugged up. As they come to they are tortured and then their bodies are cremated. Who are these criminals? They are members of a drug cartel, and those who traffic in humans. Want to know more? Read the book. Be forewarned that this is not a book you can start and stop at will. This is a book that demands to be read from beginning to end.

[Julie Smith · Rating 1 out of 5]

Far too many misspellings, punctuation/grammatical errors and misuse of words, i.e. "mute" rather than "moot" for me to complete. I can deal with some of these, but definitely not every page with at least one example. I kept reading because the underlying STORY seemed great, but the writing itself was too much to deal with for me.