With the recent weather event that had a devastating effect on Texas, Texans, and our power grid, it seemed like a good time to remind you of another potential threat to the Texas power grid. My review of The Grid: A Jon Cantrell Thriller by Harry Hunsicker first ran in October 2015. Just like the weather threat that remains as some in the Texas leadership have already started backing away from needed fixes they promised to undertake, nothing has actually been done about this issue either.
This third thriller in the series (The Contractors and Shadow Boys) finds Jon Cantrell away from Dallas and down the road to the south about a hundred miles. Now, a few months after recent events, he is the relatively new Sheriff Jonathan Cantrell of Peterson County. Located in the Waco area, the county has various businesses including a private run for profit prison. It also has an out of control deputy wanted for drug abuse and beating on his wife (currently in the hospital recovering from broken ribs, a cracked orbital socket, and other injuries), as well as some other legal issues. When found, the man isn’t going to go peacefully.
Jon Cantrell got his job thanks to his checkered
past and some connections he has made over the years. All of that is about to
haunt him again when Price Anderson shows up. These days he is head of security
for Sudamento. They own a third of the electric power plants in Texas including
at least one in the immediate area. Based on the two area wide power failures
in the last 90 minutes during this clear and hot day, they have a problem.
A problem that Jon Cantrell wants no part of as his
current job is a chance at new start and some stability in his life. He has
plenty to deal with privately regarding Piper and their new baby, not to
mention the situation involving the deputy. Before Cantrell could get the
deputy into custody he got himself murdered. Cantrell probably even saw the
suspect leaving the scene at a nearby motel. None of that matters to the
multiple tentacles of Federal Law Enforcement that insist he must become fully
involved in the apparent attack on the power grid. He could refuse as this is
America after all, but they have plenty of leverage that can be bought to bear
to make his life unbearable.
The Grid: A Jon Cantrell Thriller
is another good one that shifts in point of view from Jon, to the killer, and a
few others at various points in the complex three hundred plus page read.
Frequently graphic in terms of violence and sexual content, Cantrell works
multiple investigations that span significant sections of the state. Neither
situation is easily solved which makes for quite the read in The Grid: A
Jon Cantrell Thriller.
The Grid: A Jon
Cantrell Thriller
Harry Hunsicker
Thomas &
Mercer (Amazon)
ISBN#
978-1477827659
Paperback (also
available in audio and e-book forms)
330 Pages
$15.95
Material supplied by the author in exchange for my
objective review.
Kevin R. Tipple ©2015, 2021
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