For this final Monday of 2015
Kaye George offers a review of a thriller featuring a massive hurricane, body
parts, and more……
Damaged by Alex Kava
This thriller is a fast read. Not
because it’s short, but because it’s so hard to put down non-stop action. The
short chapters, mostly five to six pages long, move the reader through the book
like the hurricane sweeps through the story.
Hurricane Isaac is heading straight for
Pensacola, Florida. It has already hit Jamaica as a category-4 storm,
which means its winds were 131 to 155 miles per hour and caused “devastating”
damage, killing dozens of people. It soon picks up to a catagory-5 with winds
156 miles per hour or greater and capable of causing “catastrophic” damage.
Some residents of Pensacola—the ones who
rode out the last storm—don’t believe it will hit dead on, but most of the area
is evacuating. Meanwhile, Elizabeth Bailey, a twenty-seven-year-old Coast Guard
rescue swimmer and veteran of Hurricane Katrina, is
part of a team who discovers a floating cooler of horror, full of body parts.
They’re not even all from the same body.
Meanwhile…Maggie O’Dell, FBI special
agent and profiler, returns from a bloody shootout to be sent by her unfriendly
boss into the hurricane’s path to help investigate the discovery. No time to
recover.
Meanwhile…Colonel Benjamin Platt, an
infectious disease expert and a guy Maggie would like to have as more than a
friend, is sent to the same area to see if he can figure out what’s happening
to cause some mysterious deaths among military patients.
Meanwhile…a funeral director named
Scott, who is Elizabeth Bailey’s brother-in-law, is getting himself involved in
something that he knows should make him a lot of money. He doesn’t exactly realize
what it is though.
The threads are woven together expertly
against the backdrop of the impending storm, which is picking up power and
heading straight for all these characters. The climax will keep you on the edge
of your seat.
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