All The Way Under

by David Kearns

Delorean Harper has a gym bag full of cash, a new identity, a cabin on the Oregon coast, and a beautiful girlfriend. He also has a small army of assassins on his trail. What his hunters don’t know is that Delorean had his first encounter with a killer when he was twelve years old, and he hasn't forgotten how to take care of himself in a fight to the death.

The second in the Delorean Harper series. Delorean Harper has a gym bag full of cash, a new identity, a cabin on the Oregon coast, and a beautiful girlfriend. He also has a small army of assassins on his trail. What his hunters don’t know is that Delorean had his first encounter with a killer when he was twelve years old, and he hasn't forgotten how to take care of himself in a fight to the death.

Rejected by the government witness security program for being dangerous and unstable, Delorean is on his own against an El Paso drug cartel who wants to punish him for testifying against one of their top lieutenants. Delorean gets assistance from a sympathetic federal marshal, Eric Fullmeyer, who offers Delorean a new identity and place to live if he'll agree to leave town without starting a shooting war with the cartel. After a heated confrontation in an El Paso bar with a pair of cartel killers, Delorean agrees to Eric Fullmeyer's offer, and Delorean escapes to a remote Oregon beach town to shake the cartel from his trail.

He isn't there long before he's asked by Eric Fullmeyer to protect Bonnie, a beautiful woman who has her own problems with the cartel. Keeping her safe isn't easy - the cartel's relentless hunters know Delorean's moves so well that he suspects that the federal marshals are leaking information about his location. As professional killers track Delorean and Bonnie through snowy forests, in small towns, and on isolated beaches, Delorean is forced to become as ruthless as the cartel assassins just to stay alive. This isn't the first time he's had to defend himself against hired killers, though, and he knows how to fight dirty to keep himself and his girlfriend alive.

Eventually Delorean's luck runs out when he's ambushed on a secluded beach and Bonnie is kidnapped by the cartel. She's taken back to El Paso and held for ransom. The price of her Delorean's life. If he wants her back, Delorean's going to have to go to war with the cartel on their home turf of El Paso. Delorean likes his odds. He knows that the most dangerous creation of society is the man who has nothing left to lose.

202 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 17, 2016

About the author

David Kearns is the author of the popular Delorean Harper novels. Born in North Carolina and raised in Oklahoma, he grew up in a household of avid readers. He read a copy of Robert B. Parker's The Godwulf Manuscript when he was fourteen, which inspired his lifelong love of writing and of crime fiction. Other literary influences include Robert Crais, James Lee Burke, Dick Francis, Andrew Vachss, and Lee Child. He moved to Portland, Oregon in 1989, where he began writing short fiction and submitting it for publication. Then he began writing his first novel, All The Way Down, using his own experiences in White Sands, New Mexico as elements of the story. This story begins the series of novels about a tough, principled, gregarious loner named Delorean Harper. Other novels in the series are based in the picturesque beach town of Oceanside, Oregon or in other locales of the Pacific Northwest. Although each of the Delorean Harper novels can be read stand-alone, the character arc of Delorean Harper is best understood by reading the books in sequence: All The Way Down, All The Way Under, All The Way Back, Pretenders, All The Way Gone, and Lethal Favor.

Reviews

[MGB · Rating 4 out of 5]

A well written action adventure story. Del is the vigilante you want on your side, but watch out as there is always collateral damage. The author does a great job portraying the beautiful scenery and then injecting a lot of action into the story. A good continuation of the previous book.