While nearly everyone has heard of the private
contractors working in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere overseas, they also are
working her at home. Jon Cantrell and Piper are contractors for the DEA and a
lot more as well as being romantically involved. As the book opens they are on
the trail of Lisa, a missing 14 year old teenager. Hired by a retired crooked
cop named Sinclair they need to find the girl and get her back home. Not only
will that get them paid, it will allow them to focus on another job.
Under their real job of working for the DEA, they
are going to raid a local warehouse and seize the drugs. Unlike their sideline business with Sinclair
where they get paid a small amount, this sanctioned job will pay big and be
fully legal as they operate as private contractors for the DEA. That is their plan for how to handle work,
but they have no plan for how to handle their relationship going forward.
They aren’t the only private contractors working for
the DEA and other parties in the Dallas Fort Worth area. They are not the only ones that have a plan
for the warehouse or the contents inside.
While others know about the secret cartel witness being held captive in
the warehouse, Jon and Piper have no idea nor do they have any idea what they
are in for when they find her. As the already fragile relationship between
Piper and Jon disintegrates, they will have to battle in a flight across Texas trying
to stay ahead of the many people who want them dead for various and often competing
reasons.
It is going to be a brutally long week in August and
not just because of the Texas sun.
Those who expect a serious mystery in the style of
the excellent Lee Henry Oswald series will be disappointed in The Contractors:
A Thriller. Instead, think of this more like a summer movie such as The
Expendables for example. There will be carnage and mayhem, the body
count will climb, lots of weapons will be used mixed in with plenty of explosions,
and the heroes will escape certain death again and again. In short, a fun read that
one should not take seriously. That is not a disparagement. It is a fact and one
that clearly a number of reviewers elsewhere failed to understand as they didn’t
get it.
This is a fast paced action orientated novel where nearly
everyone has very few redeeming qualities. A thriller in every sense of the
word where character development is limited and told in occasional bursts of backstory
to give readers a break from the frenetic forward pace. Written in a movie type
style of very short chapters and very few reflective moments for the characters,
the book nearly constantly is focused on moving the characters forward at a
hard pace. Constant explosions, gunfire, and mayhem, drive the book forward where
everyone has an agenda and will use anybody and any means necessary to get
their way. The Contractors: A Thriller by
Harry Hunsicker takes readers on a violent and bloody rampage from one end of Texas
to the other in a read that constantly twists and turns on ways that should
keep readers hooked to the very end.
The Contractors: A Thriller
Harry
Hunsicker
Thomas
& Mercer (Amazon)
February 2014
ISBN-13: 978-1477808726
E-Book
(available in paperback and audio)
514
Pages
$4.99
E-Book ARC was provided by the publisher in exchange
for my objective review.
Kevin R. Tipple ©2014
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4 comments:
I hadn't heard of this series, Kevin. Thanks for the review.
Thank you for reading and commenting.
I've gotta read this one.
A very thorough review. Good to learn about authors I'm not already familiar with.
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