For Brantley Colton,
his crusade was over. There was nothing in the abyss left for him.
Whatever he had once believed in had become a lie. There was no light at
the end of the tunnel, just a long highway ahead, a dark road without
signposts to direct him. Where would he go from here? The finality in
his soul belied some joy in the closing moments. It was over, he could
die now…but he couldn’t die happy. It had only been a few hours since he
had put the Winter Glade Motel in his rear-view, but it seemed longer.
Colton drove the desolate highway but felt tired and needed sleep. The
air conditioning was on high to fend off the humid Florida evening. The
air against his face was the only thing preventing him from drifting
into dangerous sleep; even so he contemplated the series of events that
had him traveling down 1-75 in the middle of the night…with the blood
stains of the murdered man still present on his shirt. He had used an
alias to register at the motel, paid in cash but feared something had
been left behind which could tie him to the murder. He needed time to
finish the job at hand and his sloppy second-guessing had placed him in
peril. Colton had never been one for prayer, but felt like it was a good
time to drop to his knees, to confess his crime and ask for
forgiveness. Not that it would have done any good for him.
Disclaimer – This book contains scenes of raw brutalities that are inflicted on the women who
are kidnapped, raped and then killed. We also have a lot of consensual sex
between MM and MF and well as non-consensual.
We have three voices telling three version of the same
story. A guy on a personal mission Colton, an FBI pro-filer Reston and then the
serial killer they both are after. Colton has lost someone to this killer and
has been tracking him from State to State as well as trying to stay one step
ahead of Reston. But as the trail heats
up the killer abducts another victim. Can they find her before it’s too late?
In my opinion you have three stories being told by three
different voices or three MC telling ‘talking’ during the same book is
difficult for the best authors to pull off. And this author just didn’t do it.
This story left me confused and frustrated before I got passed the third
chapter. Which led to skim reading, or turning in my first DNF. I never understood how a ‘normal’ guy could
keep posing as this or that to get the families to talk and the FBI not catch
on? I also got no empathy connection with Colton even though this is ‘his
crusade’ He just comes off has another two-bit dime store P.I. I did enjoy the
getting the inner working of the serial killer, obviously not the rape, killing
part, but how we got there.
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