Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Thorn, who "may remind you of John D. MacDonald's immortal Travis McGee...or perhaps Lee Child's Jack Reacher" (The Washington Post Book World) returns for his fifteenth adventure.When a man who saved Thorn's life years earlier, comes to ask a favor, how can Thorn refuse? Even if the favor involves recovering dozens of landmines filled with VX nerve gas that were stolen from a military base on a Pacific Island decades ago. At least that's the story that sets Thorn in motion, sending him on a journey to Arizona where he goes up against a murderous band of white supremacists who prey on undocumented immigrants. Targeted by this ruthless gang is a young Honduran girl, Dulce, the sole survivor of a truck bombing caused by one of the very landmines Thorn was seeking. As Dulce's bond with Thorn grows, Thorn is thrust deeper into a plot that not only threatens Dulce's life, but thousands of innocent American citizens. To unravel the scheme before these deadly devices can be unleashed, Thorn and Sugarman must infiltrate the terrorist cell and to do that, they are forced to travel north, far from their Key Largo home, to the tiny Michigan town of Bad Axe.
Synopsis
A simple favor: Recover 23 stolen landmines filled with VX nerve gas and rescue a young Honduran girl, Dulce, from a band of murderous white supremacists. Most people would say no. Most people aren't THORN.From a Pacific Island base in the past, to the rough back roads of the Arizona-Mexico border, to a tiny town in Michigan called Bad Axe, Thorn follows a dangerous trail that leads to breathtaking suspense.To save the girl and thousands of innocent American lives, Thorn and Sugarman must infiltrate a terrorist cell far from Key Largo. They're way out of their element, but the big question is are they out of their league? If they fall short, the axe could finally fall in BAD AXE. Thorn, who "may remind you of John D. MacDonald's immortal Travis McGee...or perhaps Lee Child's Jack Reacher" (The Washington Post Book World) returns for his fifteenth adventure. "I believe no one has written more lyrically of the Gulfstream since Ernest Hemingway..." - JAMES LEE BURKE"No writer working today uses language as elegantly as Hall, or more clearly evokes the shadows and loss that hide within the human heart." - ROBERT CRAIS"James Hall is a writer I have learned from over the years. His people and places have more brush strokes than a van Gogh. He delivers taut and muscular stories about a place where evil always lurks below the surface." - MICHAEL CONNELLY"James Hall's prose runs clean and fast as Gulf Stream waters." - Marilyn Stasio, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW"An expert creator of grotesque villains and fast action, former poet Hall raises the crossbar with his sensitive insights into the human condition." - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY"James Hall's writing is astringent, penetrating, and unfailingly gripping long after you read the last page...The story and the characters crackle like lingering currents of electricity in your mind." - DEAN KOONTZ