Too Far

by Jason Starr

Jack Harper isn't a bad man, but he's stuck in a loveless marriage with a mediocre job just trying to keep sober. The only good thing in his life is his son. When an old college friend introduces him to a new extramarital dating website, he tentatively reaches out to find a distraction from his misery. But when he goes to meet up with his steamy online date, he quickly realises it was a dire choice. Soon, Jack finds himself desperately trying to prove his innocence for crimes he did not commit, and the life he once had - unhappy as it was - is nothing but a dream. Now, he's living his worst nightmare.

Genres: Crime

320 pages, Paperback

Published February 21, 2019

About the author

Jason Starr is the international bestselling author of many crime novels and thrillers, including Cold Caller, The Follower, The Pack and The Next Time I Die. He also writes comics for Marvel (Wolverine, The Punisher) and DC (Batman, The Avenger) and original graphic novels such as Red Border and Casual Fling. In addition, he writes film and TV tie-in novels including an official Ant-Man novel and the Gotham novels based on the hit TV show. His books have been published in sixteen languages and several of his novels are in development for film and TV. He has won the Anthony Award for mystery fiction twice, as well as a Barry Award. Starr lives in New York City.

Reviews

[Steffs.Chapter · Rating 3 out of 5]

Once getting past the whiney chapters and highly annoying unrealistic detective, it turned into a pretty compelling and easy read. There's many strange moments and a sudden twist of events. A story of self-destruction and desperation and an ending I quite enjoyed. To avoid any confusion, Too Far is also known as Fugitive Red, and is the same book.

[Teresa · Rating 1 out of 5]

A whiney, dull main character, a predictable plot and some very dull writing. My first Jason Starr book and my last.

[Maddy · Rating 1 out of 5]

The first couple of chapters were good and the shock I felt was real when Jack realised this wasn’t just a meeting with an ‘online friend’ anymore.


However as the chapters went on, the repetitive use of words and phrases really started to bore me and the dialogue between characters (especially the cops) seemed a bit unrealistic.

Some of the details didn’t make sense to me either, like how on earth had the detectives not been able to locate where the messages from the Discreet Hookups website were actually sent from.

Seems a bit silly and not like how it would’ve really been dealt with in real life.

For me, this is mainly why I gave it 2 stars… it’s a bit hard to immerse yourself into a world in a book when it’s just not believable.

The extreme changes in behaviour and mood didn’t really seem to build any personalities for the characters either, again, making this book hard to completely immerse myself into and create a vivid picture in my head.

[Beth · Rating 3 out of 5]

Before reading this I made the mistake of reading some reviews on here that didn't like it very much and the overall rating is very low.
I however found this to be an enjoyable read despite the main character Jack being a complete idiot, so much so that I wanted to reach through the pages and give him a slap.
The pacing was good and the story raced on throughout.
Whilst it was nothing amazing it wasn't terrible

[Hayley · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed this book, I had my suspicions from the start and for the most part I was right!!

[Ranjana · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great thriller!

[Gemma · Rating 1 out of 5]

What utter poop. I made it 100 pages in before I went stuff it and skipped to the final few chapters to find out who did it.

[willie giere · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great

The twist just keeps coming think you have it all worked out then the author throws another angle . Fast reading excellent story