The gunshots sounded like fireworks, but the bodies in the Louisiana river mud were all too real.
When a festive bonfire on the St. James Parish levee turns into a massacre, the world sees a tragedy. Jonathan Hunt sees a signature.
Hunted by his own agency and accompanied by Grace Hadley, a brilliant but disgraced analyst who knows too much, Hunt must navigate a kaleidoscope of betrayal. From the swampy depths of the Atchafalaya Basin to the sterile kill-rooms of DC, they are the only things standing between a shadow government and its endgame.
But the enemy isn’t just a person; it’s a system that knows Hunt’s next move before he makes it. To stop the machine, Hunt will have to become the one variable it never calculated: a ghost who has nothing left to lose.
Having worked on projects with New York Times Bestsellers and USA Today bestsellers, Georgia Wagner recently hit #1 bestseller with her newest series. Location and character are two big factors for Georgia, and getting those right allows the story to flow seamlessly onto the page. And flow it does, because Georgia is so prolific a new term is required to describe the rate at which nerve-tingling stories find their way into print.
When not found attached to a laptop, Georgia likes spending time in local arboretums, among the trees and ponds. An avid cultivator of orchids, begonias, and all things floral, Georgia also has a strong penchant for art, paintings, and sculptures. A many-decades-long passion for mystery novels and years of chess tournament experience makes Georgia the perfect person to pen the Artemis Blythe series. That's where it all started, but the drive to craft thrilling mystery tales soon demanded new characters in new locations.
Georgia writes a great dialogue, like regular talking not boring words that don’t connect. And here’s the but… there are too many times where it seems the dialogue is hurried and doesn’t make sense. I highlighted many instances where the author seemed to conjure up a weapon or tool, screw driver, knife, whatever, and then wrote a scenarios that explained where he got it. Almost like, “Oh crap he needs a knife but I forgot to say that he took it from the glove box, so I’ll just explain it here”. Takes away from the story. And the latest has Jonathan, with a broken and useless arm, holding a gun at the base of the spine of the bad guy and then GRABBING HIM BY THE COLLAR AND DRAGGING HIM. I don’t remember him having three arms. Either she doesn’t realize how impossible this is or she has some really bad proof readers, or both.
But I’ll still read her books. Really hope she reads this or someone reads it to her. Would make the stories so much better, I’m tired of highlighting stuff.
I'm amazed that these authors can write so many fantastic novels, I hope that they never stops writing. Their books are some of the best Entertainment I have read and worth the time to read them. Thank you for a very fun entertaining read.
It’s been a while since a book had me this riveted. Books 1 and 2 were good reads, very entertaining, book 3 was very good. Great job authors, I’m hoping the series only gets better.
Deep state conspiracy, fast pace, and a main character made of skill, determination, intelligence and dogged determination, no matter the odds. Great head candy!