After failing to drink his life away in Mexico, Roger Devereux has been forced to return to Birmingham, Alabama. He finds the shattered life he left behind has been put back together from the pieces that were left over. Roger tries to make peace with his new situation, and sets about ignoring everyone and everything except for the next bottle of Knob Creek. And then the perfect opportunity to get the old Roger back appears in the form of a beautiful doctor.
Dr. Lana Fitzpatrick's sister Chloe is a known prostitute and drug addict, and now she's missing. After disappearing from a safe house operated by The Lighthouse, a Christian mission group dedicated to wiping out sex trafficking and helping prostitutes find a new life, Chloe is nowhere to be found. The police assume she's just returned to her old life, but Lana doesn't believe it, and she doesn't trust The Lighthouse when they tell her Chloe left of her own free will.
Roger really isn't interested, but he knows the easiest way to get his friends off his back and himself back to drinking is to track down Lana's sister in whatever flop house she's landed in. But nothing is as simple as it seems in the Tragic City, and Roger soon finds himself neck deep in a world of seedy motels, soul scarred hookers, and brutal pimps.
At first I wasn't sure if I was going to like this one. The Roger Devereux of the first couple of chapters is a bastard. But then as the story played out and he found his way back to himself I got my Roger back. The is a great story about how things are not always wat they seem, and how people who present themselves as heroes and champions off the weak are just as likely to be the very villains and a boots on the neck they claim to fight. Lots of action and plenty of steamy scenes!
An action packed, sexually charged sequel to the wonderful Tragic City! Roger Devereux is back and this time he is taking on modern day slavery. From the bottom of a bottle in Mexico to the streets of his home town Birmingham, Alabama, Roger takes no prisoners as he sets out to destroy a group of human traffickers who are doing their level best to see him dead first.
This author has a style of writing reminiscent of the old Tyne detectives with a little new age gadgetry and good old “up yours” attitude. Really good plots and action. I’m sure guys would go for it even more. Definitely recommend.