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Hunter Kincaid #1
Quick
A sadistic killer roams the shadow world of undocumented aliens, and the first glimpse law enforcement has of him is when tough, dedicated female Border Patrol Agent Hunter Kincaid watches through binoculars as the killer shoots his own partner for being too slow, then crosses the Rio Grande into Mexico. Two thousand miles away, South Florida Homicide Detectives John Quick and Randall Ishtee investigate the machete murder of an undocumented female, and a slender thread of evidence stretches all the way to West Texas. John and Randall join forces with Hunter to track down the monster. What they don't know is that the killer is aware, and his focus is now on them, like a Great White as it speeds toward three unsuspecting swimmers.
265 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 13, 2013
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October 26, 2015
Let me start by saying this book is not for everyone. Graphic tortures and murders by barbed wired, by machete abound. Human trafficking, rape in all it's ugliness fill this story. So those people who are squeamish; or are sickened and disturbed by these things should find something else to read.
John Quick and his partner Randall Ishtee are detectives in Florida. When they find a trailer filled with dead illegals, they start tracing where they came from ... landing in Texas where they meet Hunter Kincaid, the only female Border Agent.
Drug trafficking, human trafficking is running rampant ... Border Agents cannot be everywhere all at once, but Hunter has a good idea who is behind all the crime. This book is all about the chase.
John Quick is a dangerous man. He's lost his wife and infant son in the most gruesome way possible. It eats at him day and night. He's sleeping too little and drinking too much. His partner worries about him, but John is a man possessed. When he metes out his brand of justice, he is not proud and it doesn't bring his loved ones back, but it is what it is.
Randall Ishtee is of American Indian heritage. He and Quick grew up together .. he on the reservation, Quick on the outskirts. He has a terrific sense of humor and a great sense of loyalty to his friend and partner.
Hunter Kincaid is a woman who absolutely loves her job ... but feels the frustration of not being able to stop a particular drug cartel who places no value on human life.
This book is so chillingly realistic .. gritty and downright dirty ... some of the atrocities are so gut-wrenching that I had to take short breaks to convince myself I was reading fiction.
If you have a strong stomach, I highly recommend this book. This is the first in a series .... if you get through the first one, then I think you will enjoy the other adventures of Hunter Kincaid.
October 2, 2013
Really gripping and engaging.
June 10, 2018
Review of Hunter Kincaid-Book 1
Hunter Kincaid is a strong, intelligent woman with many useful skills for her job as border patrol agent. She has good instincts about people and their hidden agendas. Randall and John are also well-fitted to their jobs and able to work well with Hunter. The quick-thinking of all three agents saved them time and again. There were some instances involving gory details which, I think, added to the authenticity of the story. The novel was well-written and engaging. I highly recommend it.
Hunter Kincaid is a strong, intelligent woman with many useful skills for her job as border patrol agent. She has good instincts about people and their hidden agendas. Randall and John are also well-fitted to their jobs and able to work well with Hunter. The quick-thinking of all three agents saved them time and again. There were some instances involving gory details which, I think, added to the authenticity of the story. The novel was well-written and engaging. I highly recommend it.
March 26, 2023
Quick was a good first book for a series as the author introduced the main characters. The book seemed more like it might be a first book of a John Quick series than a Hunter Kincaid series. The action was a strong suit but there were some weaker parts along the way that just weren’t possible. Nonetheless, the book is strong enough especially as a Kindle Unlimited series to spur adding the next one to the Want to Read designation. 3.0 stars.
August 9, 2019
Phenomenal!!!!!!
My goodness gracious! This book was a real blood pressure boomer! Quick is a great and very colorful character and add Randall as his lifelong buddy in life and profession.....that in itself was super. Then along comes Hunter to make this trio unstoppable! It's a definite binger book📖 enjoy reading this series!!!!
My goodness gracious! This book was a real blood pressure boomer! Quick is a great and very colorful character and add Randall as his lifelong buddy in life and profession.....that in itself was super. Then along comes Hunter to make this trio unstoppable! It's a definite binger book📖 enjoy reading this series!!!!
December 16, 2016
Do not read this book! It is absolute rubbish. If this had been paper, I would have burned it. 16% in and I come upon an extremely graphic scene of torture involving an infant. Disgusting!
November 25, 2018
Good in a horrible way! Well worth a read!
June 7, 2016
Seems like I'm so busy writing my reading pace has slowed to a crawl. I mention that to explain that's why it took me so long to finish this book. It's a very entertaining read and I really liked the protagonist characters. I'd file it with crime fiction/detective books as it involves a serial murderer, human trafficking and other assorted evils. Speaking of which, the main antagonist was a bit over the top evil, but that was okay. I only gave it four stars instead of five because when one of the main characters deals with the man who tortured and killed his wife he agonizes for far too long over doing something that, put bluntly, needed doing. Still, the author is good enough that I'll read other books in this series.
February 22, 2016
Kring writes at such a pace that I thought that is how I should interrupt the title until I discovered it is the surname of one of South Florida Homicide Detectives, John Quick and Randall Ishtee, intent on breaking up a smuggling ring. Splitting time between the Florida coast and West Texas, where they meet Border Patrol Agent Hunter Kincaid, they team up to bring the brutal killer to justice. This is an introduction to the forth-coming Hunter Kincaid novels and hints at a forth coming romance between her and Detective Quick, if he can ever get past the revelations caused by his murdered wife.
January 18, 2016
Although the title "Quick" refers to the name of one of the main characters, it also describes the pace of the plot. Billy Kring created both an interesting plot and interesting characters. If you enjoy crime novels in which the good guys don't follow the rules, you'll probably enjoy this book. As other reviewers have mentioned, the Kindle version does have quite a few formatting errors. If it weren't for those, I'd have given the book a five star rating.
November 28, 2014
Action Packed, Real Characters, a Page Turner
Billy Kring is a fantastic writer. In every book of his I've read he paints a real picture of his characters and makes you care about them. His locations and details let you know he knows what he's talking about. It's easy to get lost in the world Kring builds because he knows how to tell a story. Can't wait for the next one!
Billy Kring is a fantastic writer. In every book of his I've read he paints a real picture of his characters and makes you care about them. His locations and details let you know he knows what he's talking about. It's easy to get lost in the world Kring builds because he knows how to tell a story. Can't wait for the next one!
February 11, 2016
What a great read
Never has a book kept my mind on every word.
Billy Kring is a great writer... I will be reading more of this authors work. There was never a dull moment and it was filled with excitment.I received this book for free in exchange for a true review. I don't want to spoil it so just know you will be excited,disgusted,saddened and thrilled by this book.
Never has a book kept my mind on every word.
Billy Kring is a great writer... I will be reading more of this authors work. There was never a dull moment and it was filled with excitment.I received this book for free in exchange for a true review. I don't want to spoil it so just know you will be excited,disgusted,saddened and thrilled by this book.
April 22, 2016
I can't believe this is a debut novel. Kring does a good job of capturing the atmosphere of the land and the people along the border. All the characters have depth and interesting personalities. The bad guys are REALLY bad and smart. So Hunter, Quick, and Randall have their work cut out for them in their fight for survival. This book is literally a page turner!
July 20, 2015
Quick read. Two detective friends working together to solve mysterious murder and smuggling cases in their quiet Floridian town. Going head to head with major psychotic masterminds. I would try reading another Hunter Kincaid mystery.
April 15, 2016
Entertaining story.
Hunter is a good cop in a bad situation. With help from two Native American detectives she kicks ass and comes out of it alive. A bit worse for wear but alive. Quick read, couldn't put it down.
Hunter is a good cop in a bad situation. With help from two Native American detectives she kicks ass and comes out of it alive. A bit worse for wear but alive. Quick read, couldn't put it down.
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September 7, 2015
Well written and with graphic, descriptive passages, there's nothing left to the imagination. Blood, Guts & Gore - this one has it all. Not for the faint-hearted.
February 7, 2016
After such a long buildup I was slightly disappointed with the relatively quick resolution
August 26, 2016
Discovered this author thanks to Ben Rehder's character John Marlin. Good read and I will definitely look for more in this series
June 8, 2016
Loved it!
April 17, 2017
Border Patrol Agent Hunter Kincaid saw the murder happen, but was powerless to prevent it. From a half mile away from where she stood on the side of Devil’s Ridge watching through binoculars, she saw the big man shoot the Mexican in the head. She had no idea who the guy was, but he was clearly huge. She and three other agents had chased the pair all day until “the giant” had solved the problem by killing his companion.
After the shooting in Presidio County of the Big Bend region of deep Southwest Texas, the man easily escaped back across the border. Dressed in his military camo outfit he had stared back at her as he stood over the man he had just killed and then left at an easy jog secure in the knowledge she and her people could not stop him. Not only did they lose the guides as he left and his fellow guide was dead, they never found the forty illegals that came across the river with the guides.
Hundreds of miles away in Pembroke Pines, Florida, Homicide Detective John Quick and his partner, Randall Ishtee have their own very difficult case. The body of a woman was dumped in a drainage canal. She was stabbed with something like a machete or a large knife somewhere else and then transported to this location to be dumped. With the way the body is in the drainage canal, it would take somebody big and strong to do it. Possibly the person who left size fourteen, if not bigger, shoeprints at the scene.
Gradually the two storylines merge as Quck: A Hunter Kincaid Mystery shifts back and forth between various members of law enforcement and the criminals involved in the cases. Despite the fact this is billed as A Hunter Kincaid Mystery, the majority of the read is with Detective John Quick and numerous other characters. Much of the story slows down dramatically to fill in the backstory of John Quick who, like Hunter, has been deeply traumatized by the past and his previous actions.
That trauma involves the brutal and graphic torture murders of his family. Both his wife and baby son were killed. Unfortunately, that is not the only brutality vividly described in the read. The adult language as well as detailed and graphic descriptions of violence, including the removal of a baby’s genitals, will be an issue for more than some readers. Much of these very graphic descriptions do little, if anything, to advance the story line and are present for the sole reason of shocking the reader.
While not as severe a problem in the read, Quick: A Hunter Kincaid Mystery contains a number of typos, incorrect word choice usage, missing quotation marks, and other grammar and formatting issues. While they did not affect the understanding of the storylines, they were distracting from the read.
Though there is a good core story to Quick: A Hunter Kincaid Mystery by Bill Kring, the typos and other grammar issues, as well as the descriptive torture scenes definitely negatively impact the book. So too does the fact that, despite its title, the vast majority of the read is not with the signature character Hunter Kincaid. In fact, it appears to this reader that Hunter is present in approximately a third, if not less, of the book.
While the basic storylines had significant potential, in the end, the read was significantly harmed by too much filler, a number of graphic torture descriptions that serve no point to advance the story, and the need for editing in terms of typos, incorrect word choice, missing quotation marks, etc. The book would benefit from proofreading to correct the grammar issues as author understanding that not everything somebody does to somebody else has to be described. It is also not at all necessary to describe every single item in every single room of a home though that is far preferable to detailing everything with regards to torture and mutilation scenes.
Having previously read The Devil’s Footprints: A Hunter Kincaid Short Story I am well aware that the author can do much better than this effort. While I do recommend that very entertaining short story, I do not recommend Quick: A Hunter Kincaid Mystery for the reasons noted in this review.
Quick: A Hunter Kincaid Mystery
Bill Kring
http://www.billykring.com
Self-Published
January 2014
ASIN: B00DD5YWS0
eBook (paperback available)
265 Pages
$0.99
According to Amazon, I picked this up back in June of 2015. I have no idea now if this was by way of a free read promotion, funds in my Amazon Associate account, or some other means.
Kevin R. Tipple ©2017
After the shooting in Presidio County of the Big Bend region of deep Southwest Texas, the man easily escaped back across the border. Dressed in his military camo outfit he had stared back at her as he stood over the man he had just killed and then left at an easy jog secure in the knowledge she and her people could not stop him. Not only did they lose the guides as he left and his fellow guide was dead, they never found the forty illegals that came across the river with the guides.
Hundreds of miles away in Pembroke Pines, Florida, Homicide Detective John Quick and his partner, Randall Ishtee have their own very difficult case. The body of a woman was dumped in a drainage canal. She was stabbed with something like a machete or a large knife somewhere else and then transported to this location to be dumped. With the way the body is in the drainage canal, it would take somebody big and strong to do it. Possibly the person who left size fourteen, if not bigger, shoeprints at the scene.
Gradually the two storylines merge as Quck: A Hunter Kincaid Mystery shifts back and forth between various members of law enforcement and the criminals involved in the cases. Despite the fact this is billed as A Hunter Kincaid Mystery, the majority of the read is with Detective John Quick and numerous other characters. Much of the story slows down dramatically to fill in the backstory of John Quick who, like Hunter, has been deeply traumatized by the past and his previous actions.
That trauma involves the brutal and graphic torture murders of his family. Both his wife and baby son were killed. Unfortunately, that is not the only brutality vividly described in the read. The adult language as well as detailed and graphic descriptions of violence, including the removal of a baby’s genitals, will be an issue for more than some readers. Much of these very graphic descriptions do little, if anything, to advance the story line and are present for the sole reason of shocking the reader.
While not as severe a problem in the read, Quick: A Hunter Kincaid Mystery contains a number of typos, incorrect word choice usage, missing quotation marks, and other grammar and formatting issues. While they did not affect the understanding of the storylines, they were distracting from the read.
Though there is a good core story to Quick: A Hunter Kincaid Mystery by Bill Kring, the typos and other grammar issues, as well as the descriptive torture scenes definitely negatively impact the book. So too does the fact that, despite its title, the vast majority of the read is not with the signature character Hunter Kincaid. In fact, it appears to this reader that Hunter is present in approximately a third, if not less, of the book.
While the basic storylines had significant potential, in the end, the read was significantly harmed by too much filler, a number of graphic torture descriptions that serve no point to advance the story, and the need for editing in terms of typos, incorrect word choice, missing quotation marks, etc. The book would benefit from proofreading to correct the grammar issues as author understanding that not everything somebody does to somebody else has to be described. It is also not at all necessary to describe every single item in every single room of a home though that is far preferable to detailing everything with regards to torture and mutilation scenes.
Having previously read The Devil’s Footprints: A Hunter Kincaid Short Story I am well aware that the author can do much better than this effort. While I do recommend that very entertaining short story, I do not recommend Quick: A Hunter Kincaid Mystery for the reasons noted in this review.
Quick: A Hunter Kincaid Mystery
Bill Kring
http://www.billykring.com
Self-Published
January 2014
ASIN: B00DD5YWS0
eBook (paperback available)
265 Pages
$0.99
According to Amazon, I picked this up back in June of 2015. I have no idea now if this was by way of a free read promotion, funds in my Amazon Associate account, or some other means.
Kevin R. Tipple ©2017
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