Invisible by Andrew Grant (Ballantine Books,
2019) is a hot-off-the-press stand-alone thriller with another anti-hero I
could get used to reading about. A two-year-old letter that finally wends its
way to Paul McGrath as he moves around the military intelligence system brings
Paul home to New York and the father whose dislike of the Army made Paul sign
up right after high school out of sheer perversity. Paul is aghast to learn his
father has been dead for more than six months and the business partner whose major
financial fraud precipitated the fatal cardiac incident has managed to escape
prosecution because the evidence against him mysteriously disappeared during
the trial.
Paul is determined to locate the
missing papers. He notices that service personnel can go almost anywhere
without being noticed--they are invisible--so he takes a job as a janitor in
the courthouse to search for the evidence as he goes through his daily routine
in the building. Along the way he meets a frail elderly man who is distraught
that his wife’s attacker escaped sentencing, also because evidence inexplicably
vanished. He also discovers fraud among the city’s maintenance suppliers, and a
failure in the courthouse security procedures. When the police detective he
reports all this to fails to act, Paul takes matters into his own hands to
protect the elderly couple and their friends who are being driven out of their
long-term homes. He confronts the devious
owner of the rent-controlled building the owner wants to sell, who blames
Russian investors for his problems. When Paul investigates, he finds a somewhat
different set of facts.
I think my favorite part of this good story might
be when Paul is confronted by a group of hoodlums in a rundown housing project.
He took the crowbar they intended to use on him away from them and then using
brute force made them clean up the trashed housing complex. I read this
entertaining story in a single sitting and I hope to see a sequel. Publishers
Weekly starred review.
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File Size: 3594 KB
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Print Length: 309 pages
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Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0525619593
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Publisher: Ballantine
Books (January 8, 2019)
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Publication Date: January 8,
2019
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Sold by: Random House
LLC
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Language: English
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ASIN: B07CCKFG65
Aubrey
Hamilton ©2019
Aubrey
Hamilton is a former librarian who works on Federal It projects by day and
reads mysteries at night.
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