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Gabe McKenna #4
Midnight Blues
“It’s amazing what you can achieve with enough imagination, desperation, and recklessness.”
—Gabriel J. McKenna
What kind of person would harm a child? Neophyte P.I. Gabe McKenna and his buddy The Onion find out the hard way, when their plan to ransom a kidnapped boy goes terribly wrong. Finding themselves in a battle against international human traffickers, they rely on the help of unlikely friends in a race against time to rescue dozens of enslaved young victims. In a final, deadly showdown at a New Mexico ghost town, Gabe faces his ultimate challenge. How high a price is he willing to pay? Can he risk death and his own conscience to save the innocent without turning into his enemy?
“ ‘Midnight Blues’ takes its readers on a remarkable journey filled with chilling evil, fiery valor, and heart-racing suspense. Author Robert Kidera writes with energy, passion and a beautiful appreciation for the power of language. At the end—which came too soon—I felt as though I had been holding my breath on a rollercoaster. Well done and highly recommended.”
—Anne Hillerman, Author of the Leaphorn, Chee, Manuelito Mysteries
“Kidera’s characters and plot are constantly on the move. Talk about real suspense...just when you think you can take a minute to catch your breath, this book steals your breath away once more!”
—Amy Lignor, Author of the Tallent & Lowery Series
“ ‘Cut.Print.Kill.,’ Robert Kidera’s third Gabe McKenna novel is tight, smart, lightning fast-paced and filled with surprises. Hard to believe that Kidera could top the first two books in the series, including the Tony Hillerman award-winning ‘Red Gold,’ but he has!”
—Paul D. Marks, Shamus Award-winning Author of “White Heat”
“Robert Kidera mixes in a dash of Elmore Leonard with a pinch of Tony Hillerman and cooks up ‘Get Lost,’ an indulging, classy whodunit featuring an engaging cast of characters you’ll look forward to visiting with again in future Gabe McKenna novels.”
—Alan Jacobson, National Best-Selling Author of the FBI Profiler Karen Vail Series
“Robert Kidera is an absolute master of mystery! He grabs you with irresistible intrigue and fresh, seductive writing and refuses to let go while he pummels you with twist after delicious twist. I highly recommend this book and this writer!”
—Darynda Jones, New York Times Best-Selling Author
—Gabriel J. McKenna
What kind of person would harm a child? Neophyte P.I. Gabe McKenna and his buddy The Onion find out the hard way, when their plan to ransom a kidnapped boy goes terribly wrong. Finding themselves in a battle against international human traffickers, they rely on the help of unlikely friends in a race against time to rescue dozens of enslaved young victims. In a final, deadly showdown at a New Mexico ghost town, Gabe faces his ultimate challenge. How high a price is he willing to pay? Can he risk death and his own conscience to save the innocent without turning into his enemy?
“ ‘Midnight Blues’ takes its readers on a remarkable journey filled with chilling evil, fiery valor, and heart-racing suspense. Author Robert Kidera writes with energy, passion and a beautiful appreciation for the power of language. At the end—which came too soon—I felt as though I had been holding my breath on a rollercoaster. Well done and highly recommended.”
—Anne Hillerman, Author of the Leaphorn, Chee, Manuelito Mysteries
“Kidera’s characters and plot are constantly on the move. Talk about real suspense...just when you think you can take a minute to catch your breath, this book steals your breath away once more!”
—Amy Lignor, Author of the Tallent & Lowery Series
“ ‘Cut.Print.Kill.,’ Robert Kidera’s third Gabe McKenna novel is tight, smart, lightning fast-paced and filled with surprises. Hard to believe that Kidera could top the first two books in the series, including the Tony Hillerman award-winning ‘Red Gold,’ but he has!”
—Paul D. Marks, Shamus Award-winning Author of “White Heat”
“Robert Kidera mixes in a dash of Elmore Leonard with a pinch of Tony Hillerman and cooks up ‘Get Lost,’ an indulging, classy whodunit featuring an engaging cast of characters you’ll look forward to visiting with again in future Gabe McKenna novels.”
—Alan Jacobson, National Best-Selling Author of the FBI Profiler Karen Vail Series
“Robert Kidera is an absolute master of mystery! He grabs you with irresistible intrigue and fresh, seductive writing and refuses to let go while he pummels you with twist after delicious twist. I highly recommend this book and this writer!”
—Darynda Jones, New York Times Best-Selling Author
254 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 9, 2018
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January 29, 2019
What more can I say about this author? A page-turner. I finished this book within four hours. Packed with thrills, sadness, joy, romance, murder, and a cartel. I don't like to write more because I don't like spoilers as I see in several reviews. No offense intended. If you like intrigue and the aforementioned, then you will love this series.
October 12, 2018
Gabe does it again
Reckless to say the least. That’s Gabe. He picks up a rag tag mob to help along the way. These are some characters who are capable and determined, being on the right side of right. Would have been 6 stars, but it ended too soon. More Bob Kidera, more!
Reckless to say the least. That’s Gabe. He picks up a rag tag mob to help along the way. These are some characters who are capable and determined, being on the right side of right. Would have been 6 stars, but it ended too soon. More Bob Kidera, more!
March 16, 2019
Really enjoy this series. Like the character Gabe McKenna. He’s a former professor who finds himself in predicaments sort of his own making but trying to be a nice guy. Book 4 probably wasn’t my favorite but I would recommend the series. Good read.
April 28, 2019
"A Chilling, High Action Story Of Searching for Victims of Human Trafficking"
This is the next book after "Cut.Print.Kill." and it has Gabe and Onion taking on the jobs of private detectives. This story is spell-binding and captivating. Another well written thriller by a great author.
This is the next book after "Cut.Print.Kill." and it has Gabe and Onion taking on the jobs of private detectives. This story is spell-binding and captivating. Another well written thriller by a great author.
November 14, 2018
Can't wait for the next one!!
February 16, 2019
Good
Somehow I missed book 3 and went to book 4 . However it was not a loss. This is a great book. Good storyline, good characters, and excellent storytelling
Somehow I missed book 3 and went to book 4 . However it was not a loss. This is a great book. Good storyline, good characters, and excellent storytelling
May 20, 2019
Always interesting to see what Gabe is up to! Can’t wait to find out what happens next.
December 1, 2022
Action packed
Gabe's story keeps getting better. This book had me on the edges of my seat as I read. Action packed from the beginning to the end.
Gabe's story keeps getting better. This book had me on the edges of my seat as I read. Action packed from the beginning to the end.
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June 19, 2019MWSA Review
Robert Kidera weaves a fast-moving story around Gabe McKenna on his first assignment as a private investigator. Midnight Blues is a suspenseful yarn—twisted in horrifying circumstance and sprinkled with humor—that starts with the kidnapping of the young son of an Indian friend.
Gabe and his partner Onion misread the kidnappers, losing the ransom money and the boy. Gabe gets shot, and his client is murdered. This leads them on a chase through New Mexico’s backcountry that reads like a travel log on out-of-the-way places not on the top of any places you want to visit. As they pursue the bad guys, they pick up a strange posse of a 90-year-old hermit driving a 70-year-old motorcycle, a dwarf toting a Tommy Gun, a female archaeologist, and a Native American big truck driver.
What started as two suspects grows to a human trafficking cartel that had abducted young girls, most of them Indian, from small towns. As Gabe and his crew play tag with the bad guys in running gun battles, they learn the cartel is headquartered in an old village that time forgot: Midnight. They find a back road to the ghost town. That task becomes more urgent with the news that the gang is leaving Midnight and taking their captives to another location.
The FBI is called, but don’t arrive until after Gabe and friends engage the heavily armed cartel in a fierce battle that leaves most of the bad guys dead or wounded and their leader, improbably called Angel, trying to flee in an airplane. Gabe has to stop him as the others free the young prisoners.
This is the fourth in a series of Gabe McKenna action-packed novels that grabs your attention and doesn’t turn you loose until the last sentence of the last page.
Review by Joe Epley (June 2019)
Robert Kidera weaves a fast-moving story around Gabe McKenna on his first assignment as a private investigator. Midnight Blues is a suspenseful yarn—twisted in horrifying circumstance and sprinkled with humor—that starts with the kidnapping of the young son of an Indian friend.
Gabe and his partner Onion misread the kidnappers, losing the ransom money and the boy. Gabe gets shot, and his client is murdered. This leads them on a chase through New Mexico’s backcountry that reads like a travel log on out-of-the-way places not on the top of any places you want to visit. As they pursue the bad guys, they pick up a strange posse of a 90-year-old hermit driving a 70-year-old motorcycle, a dwarf toting a Tommy Gun, a female archaeologist, and a Native American big truck driver.
What started as two suspects grows to a human trafficking cartel that had abducted young girls, most of them Indian, from small towns. As Gabe and his crew play tag with the bad guys in running gun battles, they learn the cartel is headquartered in an old village that time forgot: Midnight. They find a back road to the ghost town. That task becomes more urgent with the news that the gang is leaving Midnight and taking their captives to another location.
The FBI is called, but don’t arrive until after Gabe and friends engage the heavily armed cartel in a fierce battle that leaves most of the bad guys dead or wounded and their leader, improbably called Angel, trying to flee in an airplane. Gabe has to stop him as the others free the young prisoners.
This is the fourth in a series of Gabe McKenna action-packed novels that grabs your attention and doesn’t turn you loose until the last sentence of the last page.
Review by Joe Epley (June 2019)
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