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ReKill
Mike asks his friend Jack to help him stop a private prison being built next door to his mountain paradise. Two more likely prison sites didn’t make the grade because of the endangered species act. Mike proves the studies eliminating the other sites were wrong, and probably fixed, but the government won’t listen.
Jack talks Mike into using the same tactics to stop the prison. The Friends of the Trinity Vole is formed and soon the little critter is on the endangered species list and the prison is stopped dead. Soon, hard men show up in town and accidents happen.
Mike supposedly discovers he has cancer and takes a dive off a cliff. Only Jack knows he wouldn’t. Mike lived for his daughter and wouldn’t abandon her, no matter what he was facing. Jack calls in an outside expert for the autopsy and it shows Mike was thrown off that cliff to fall over four seconds to a crushing death. Jack will make sure it takes Mike’s killer a whole lot longer than four seconds to die. But, what if the killer he stalks officially died years before in prison?
Jack talks Mike into using the same tactics to stop the prison. The Friends of the Trinity Vole is formed and soon the little critter is on the endangered species list and the prison is stopped dead. Soon, hard men show up in town and accidents happen.
Mike supposedly discovers he has cancer and takes a dive off a cliff. Only Jack knows he wouldn’t. Mike lived for his daughter and wouldn’t abandon her, no matter what he was facing. Jack calls in an outside expert for the autopsy and it shows Mike was thrown off that cliff to fall over four seconds to a crushing death. Jack will make sure it takes Mike’s killer a whole lot longer than four seconds to die. But, what if the killer he stalks officially died years before in prison?
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First published August 29, 2014
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September 7, 2017
The bottom line: if you liked ReWire, you'll also like ReKill (as much, or probably more).
ReKill brings back most of the characters from ReWire, though some fade significantly into the background significantly to make room for the new additions of Mike, Jack's friend and business partner; Heather, Mike's daughter; and Brigit, a lawyer who comes in 1/3 of the way into the story as an appointed guardian ad litem.
All of the same positives from book 1 apply here: Jack is superhuman, yet imperfect. As before, the protagonists have "gifts" that give them an edge in conflict, but are never used as a crutch. It always takes planning, effort, intelligence, and luck to succeed.
If you haven't read ReWire, some of the things taken for granted (especially the aforementioned gifts) and a few briefly mentioned characters and previous events will lack much explanation.
ReKill betrays author John Cameron's libertarian streak a bit more than ReWire did, while remaining nuanced. There's evil and incompetence by both public and private actors in this book, but valor by both as well. There is also abuse of the system for personal gain on both sides. John Cameron may have cornered the market on the public choice thriller genre... The same leanings were evident to me in ReWire, but they bubble up to the surface a bit more in Book 2.
ReKill is a strong continuation of Cameron's series, and I'm looking forward to Book 3!
ReKill brings back most of the characters from ReWire, though some fade significantly into the background significantly to make room for the new additions of Mike, Jack's friend and business partner; Heather, Mike's daughter; and Brigit, a lawyer who comes in 1/3 of the way into the story as an appointed guardian ad litem.
All of the same positives from book 1 apply here: Jack is superhuman, yet imperfect. As before, the protagonists have "gifts" that give them an edge in conflict, but are never used as a crutch. It always takes planning, effort, intelligence, and luck to succeed.
If you haven't read ReWire, some of the things taken for granted (especially the aforementioned gifts) and a few briefly mentioned characters and previous events will lack much explanation.
ReKill betrays author John Cameron's libertarian streak a bit more than ReWire did, while remaining nuanced. There's evil and incompetence by both public and private actors in this book, but valor by both as well. There is also abuse of the system for personal gain on both sides. John Cameron may have cornered the market on the public choice thriller genre... The same leanings were evident to me in ReWire, but they bubble up to the surface a bit more in Book 2.
ReKill is a strong continuation of Cameron's series, and I'm looking forward to Book 3!
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