The Cracker

by David Hallman

Luther Spurlock, a crusty career criminal from South Georgia, is known in the criminal community as “the Cracker,” a nickname he acquired as a safe cracker and tunneling expert. Recently paroled, he is approached to tunnel into a bank in Savannah, Georgia. As preparations get underway, Special Agent Hank Monroe with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation soon stumbles onto their plan. Thus begins a cat-and-mouse game between the GBI and Spurlock’s gang that grows personal when Monroe learns that one of the men is a deranged former Army Ranger with whom he served years back. At the same time, Spurlock’s life is further complicated by the arrival of a grown daughter he unknowingly fathered three decades before with the only woman he ever loved. While she causes him to ponder his decisions in his aging, stoic life she also introduces him to a new experience – the love between a father and daughter.

318 pages, Paperback

Published October 5, 2015

Reviews

[April · Rating 4 out of 5]

Luther Spurlock, a hardened criminal called The Cracker for his safe cracking abilities, is released from jail only to quickly jump into the next big job. Then a surprise arrives in the form of a grown daughter from his one true love. Claudia has died, and Carrie has found her missing father. Luther's life is turned upside down...or has it?
Lots of excitement and riveting law enforcement procedures! As in Mr. Hallman's other works, there is a twist at the end...

[Shon Rand · Rating 3 out of 5]

I’ve got to admit that I know the author—and I think he’s great. I liked this book a lot less than his first, however. As with his first novel, there is quite a twist at the end, and that really does add something to the novel. My main criticism is simply that there are too many characters that are developed too little. I couldn’t really get invested in most any of them.