Andia kills bad guys. But not just any bad guys. She kills the scum who traffic in female sex slaves.When she botches the assassination of a Russian mobster because of a personal vendetta, the Family sends her to St. Marys, a small town in southeast Georgia, to take out a hard target on a navy base. Most disturbing to Andia, this small town was her hometown and the memories stirred up by her return aren't pleasant.But now the Russians are hunting her and the target seems impossible to find, much less kill. And the terrible truths she uncovers about her past may pale in comparison to what the Family will do to her if she fails.
Seventh is a fast paced dark thriller with really "BAD" bad guys in the business of human trafficking. Once you know what they do, there is just no way for them not to get what they deserve. That is not to say the book is predictable since there is a plot twist at the end that you won't see coming. The story is about Jake, a PI who finds missing people, and Andia who has been lost and thought to be dead for a long time. Jake learns about himself and his desire not just to find but, to save lost people on his quest to find Andia. The problem is that it is the bad guys who hired Jake to find Andia so they can dispose of her. You'll just have to read the book to see if Jake is able to save Andia and get away from the bad guys. I'm giving this book five stars since I enjoyed it as much as a couple of John Corwin's more recent novels. Check out No Darker Fate and The Next Thing I Knew, if you're a Sci-Fi fan.
This was a genuinely gripping read with the author ending each short chapter with a hook which kept you reading. Very exciting and action-packed. It was only towards the end that some elements of science fiction came in, but they were plausible and didn't detract from the story as by that stage you were completely caught up in it. I generally hate science fiction, but this was more of a dark thriller liberally laced with action. I have to say I enjoyed it immensely.
As always, a well written offering by Mr. Corwin, but I found it a hard story to get into and to finish. I can only surmise that, for me, the characters, action, and conflicts offered were too numerous to allow me to actually be sucked in and drawn, with passion, to any of the main characters, or conflicts, or to take a personal stake in the resolution of the story. I found this book a struggle in all ways.