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Obsessed
A world-class thriller with non-stop, heart-pounding tension and action, “Obsessed” brings back Matt Curtis and Renee Drummond and their villainous nemesis, Lonnie Jackson. This second installment in Joseph Badal’s The Curtis Chronicles takes the reader from Rio de Janeiro to the mountains of New Mexico to the Mexico/United States border, following a crazed Jackson on his single-minded quest for revenge against the two people he blames for the deaths of his mother and brother and for the destruction of his criminal empire in Hawaii.
“Obsessed” is another master stroke of fiction from this Amazon #1 Best-Selling Author, two-time winner of the Tony Hillerman Award for Best Fiction Book of the Year, and three-time Military Writers Society of America Gold Medal Winner.
If you like fast-paced stories that put you on a breathless, adrenaline-filled journey, with realistic good guys and believable bad guys, “Obsessed” will have you begging for more.
“ ‘Obsessed’ is a flat-out fantastic, eighteen-wheeler of a thriller driven by a dynamic plot and barreling through anything in its way. Joseph Badal has crafted a tale as elegant in execution as it is novelistic in its three-dimensional characters, good guys and bad who are equally driven from the point the last entry in Badal’s Curtis Chronicles leaves off. It’s easy to obsess about ‘Obsessed,’ because it follows all the rules of great thriller writing, while making up a few of its own. A must read for all hardcore fans of the genre.”
—Jon Land, USA Today Bestselling Author of the Caitlin Strong Series
“Obsessed” is another master stroke of fiction from this Amazon #1 Best-Selling Author, two-time winner of the Tony Hillerman Award for Best Fiction Book of the Year, and three-time Military Writers Society of America Gold Medal Winner.
If you like fast-paced stories that put you on a breathless, adrenaline-filled journey, with realistic good guys and believable bad guys, “Obsessed” will have you begging for more.
“ ‘Obsessed’ is a flat-out fantastic, eighteen-wheeler of a thriller driven by a dynamic plot and barreling through anything in its way. Joseph Badal has crafted a tale as elegant in execution as it is novelistic in its three-dimensional characters, good guys and bad who are equally driven from the point the last entry in Badal’s Curtis Chronicles leaves off. It’s easy to obsess about ‘Obsessed,’ because it follows all the rules of great thriller writing, while making up a few of its own. A must read for all hardcore fans of the genre.”
—Jon Land, USA Today Bestselling Author of the Caitlin Strong Series
377 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 5, 2018
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About the author
Joseph Badal
31 books135 followers"Joe Badal has had a varied and successful career. After 6 years as a decorated commissioned Army officer, having served in Vietnam and Greece, he had a long banking and finance career. He has had 18 suspense novels published: 4 stand-alones (The Pythagorean Solution, Shell Game, Ultimate Betrayal, and Payback); 7 books in the Danforth Saga (Evil Deeds, Terror Cell, The Nostradamus Secret,The Lone Wolf Agenda, Death Ship, Sins of the Fathers, and The Carnevale Conspiracy); 4 books in the Lassiter/Martinez Case Files (Borderline, Dark Angel, Natural Causes, and Everything To Lose); and 3 books in the Curtis Chronicles (The Motive, Obsessed, and Justice).
He is an Amazon #1 Best-Selling Author and has received numerous awards, including being recognized as "One of The 50 Best Writers You Should Be Reading." He is a two-time winner of the Tony Hillerman Award for Best Fiction Book of the Year and has received multiple Gold Medals from the Military Writers Society of America. He was named Write of the year by the Military Writers Society of America in 2021. His books have received Finalist honors in the International Book Awards contest and in the Eric Hoffer Awards.
He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in International Finance and Business Administration, is a graduate of the Stanford University Law School's Director College, and of the Defense Language Institute, West Coast.
Joe has also written dozens of articles that have been published in a variety of business magazines and trade journals, and is a frequent speaker at business and writers’ events. His blog, Everyday Heroes, highlights individuals just like you who are confronted with a challenge and rise to the occasion."
He is an Amazon #1 Best-Selling Author and has received numerous awards, including being recognized as "One of The 50 Best Writers You Should Be Reading." He is a two-time winner of the Tony Hillerman Award for Best Fiction Book of the Year and has received multiple Gold Medals from the Military Writers Society of America. He was named Write of the year by the Military Writers Society of America in 2021. His books have received Finalist honors in the International Book Awards contest and in the Eric Hoffer Awards.
He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in International Finance and Business Administration, is a graduate of the Stanford University Law School's Director College, and of the Defense Language Institute, West Coast.
Joe has also written dozens of articles that have been published in a variety of business magazines and trade journals, and is a frequent speaker at business and writers’ events. His blog, Everyday Heroes, highlights individuals just like you who are confronted with a challenge and rise to the occasion."
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May 29, 2020MWSA Review
Obsessed by Joe Badal is an apt title for this rip-roaring second book in the Curtis Chronicles series. It is a perfect one-word adjective for the main “bad guy” who was introduced in book one of the Curtis Chronicles. But the adjective might also apply to more than one of the other fascinating characters you’ll meet in this book.
Taking up where we left off in The Motive, we are reacquainted with Lonnie Jackson, a truly evil person, who will stop at nothing to get his revenge. However, in Obsessed, there is more than one person obsessed to some degree about killing one or more of the other characters. In fact, more than once, killers find themselves waiting in line for their turn to rid themselves of their adversaries.
Badal carefully crafts an ever-increasing level of suspense leading up to an abrupt surprise ending. There are plenty of bodies strewn across the pages of Badal’s latest thriller, but they probably won’t end up being the bodies the reader or the book’s players might have expected. To find out what it all means, you’ll have to pick up your own copy of Obsessed and see how obsessively you’ll flip the pages and then anxiously wait for the next installment.
Review by John Cathcart (May 2020)
Obsessed by Joe Badal is an apt title for this rip-roaring second book in the Curtis Chronicles series. It is a perfect one-word adjective for the main “bad guy” who was introduced in book one of the Curtis Chronicles. But the adjective might also apply to more than one of the other fascinating characters you’ll meet in this book.
Taking up where we left off in The Motive, we are reacquainted with Lonnie Jackson, a truly evil person, who will stop at nothing to get his revenge. However, in Obsessed, there is more than one person obsessed to some degree about killing one or more of the other characters. In fact, more than once, killers find themselves waiting in line for their turn to rid themselves of their adversaries.
Badal carefully crafts an ever-increasing level of suspense leading up to an abrupt surprise ending. There are plenty of bodies strewn across the pages of Badal’s latest thriller, but they probably won’t end up being the bodies the reader or the book’s players might have expected. To find out what it all means, you’ll have to pick up your own copy of Obsessed and see how obsessively you’ll flip the pages and then anxiously wait for the next installment.
Review by John Cathcart (May 2020)
September 8, 2019
Pretty good story!
Pretty good story. Good character profile, fast paced and good writing. Did not particularly like the cliffhanger ending. I guess I’ll just have to wait for book 3
Pretty good story. Good character profile, fast paced and good writing. Did not particularly like the cliffhanger ending. I guess I’ll just have to wait for book 3
December 22, 2021
I liked the changing of focus/view point of the different characters it kept the pacing of the book up. I liked that this was a fast paced action book but that happened at the expense of building and developing the characters.
June 14, 2019
Review Obsessed
Could not put book down!! This series has renewed my interest in reading on my Kindle. Looking forward to more.
Could not put book down!! This series has renewed my interest in reading on my Kindle. Looking forward to more.
October 24, 2019
Great read!
Just read it and you will know! Read these in order. Excellent reading if to like intrigue, love, excitement and scary happiness.
Just read it and you will know! Read these in order. Excellent reading if to like intrigue, love, excitement and scary happiness.
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