IN A RACE AGAINST TIME, WHAT IF THE GREATEST THREAT WAS YOUR OWN CHILD?
It’s per week earlier than the presidential elections when a bomb goes off in an LA shopping center…
In London, armed police storm Heathrow Airport and arrest Sajid Khan. His daughter Aliyah entered the USA with the suicide bomber, and now she’s lacking, probably plotting one other assault.
However then a mysterious girl referred to as Carrie turns up at Sajid’s door after travelling midway internationally. She claims Aliyah is together with her son Greg, and he or she is aware of the place they could possibly be.
Again within the US, Agent Shreya Mistry is closing in on the 2 fugitives. However the extra she investigates, the extra she realises this case is much from so simple as it appears.
Hunted by the authorities, the 2 dad and mom are thrown collectively in a race in opposition to time to seek out their youngsters earlier than the FBI does and cease a disaster that can deliver the world to its knees.
Guide Information: Print size: 468 pages. Publishers: Classic Digital. Publication Date: 9 Might 2024
My Ideas:
That is my first Murkerjee guide regardless of realizing Abir for years and being an everyday contributor on his sensible PodCast with Vaseem Khan. Hyperlink right here if you happen to haven’t already listened to it or subscribed: Purple Scorching Chilli Writers on Apple Podcasts
For individuals who don’t know Abir Murkerjee, he’s the writer of the very profitable Sam Wyndham sequence a few former Scotland Yard detective who arrives in Calcutta desperately looking for a recent begin after his experiences through the Nice Struggle. There are at the moment 5 books on this sequence.
Again to Hunted. That is the authors first standalone novel and has been described by Lee Baby as “A just about flawless thriller” and Sunday Occasions mentioned “Hunted is an exceptional achievement, with its sizeable solid of memorable characters, flawless juggling of a number of storylines, and a political dimension that makes it greater than pacey leisure”
I learn this guide along with my on-line guide membership final month. Usually we learn psychological thrillers so this was the primary motion/political thriller for many of us and judging from the suggestions of the opposite 80 members it positively gained’t be the final.
Set in current day UK and USA, the story begins with a bang (actually), when a bomb goes off in a LA shopping center killing harmless victims together with many ladies and youngsters. In the meantime within the UK, Sajid Khan is on his method to work at Heathrow Airport when armed police arrest him on suspicion of terrorism.
His daughter Aliyah had entered the USA with the suspected suicide bomber and is now lacking. The intel suggests she’s concerned and plotting one other lethal assault and Agent Shreya Mistry is on the case.
The plot thickens when an American girl referred to as Carrie turns up at Sajid’s dwelling claiming her son Greg can also be lacking and he or she has good cause to imagine their youngsters are collectively and combined up within the terrorist assaults.
The story then follows these two, very totally different, dad and mom who crew as much as discover and rescue their youngsters in a frantic and harmful race in opposition to time earlier than one other bomb is detonated.
As I discussed earlier than, I’m not usually a political thriller fan, however WOW Hunted stored me glued to my kindle and devouring every chapter to seek out out what, how, why and the place. It’s extremely topical with a superb solid of plausible and relatable characters. The stress is tight, the tempo is quick and the motion is continuous.
If you’re in search of a very smart, thought-provoking motion thriller, then I might strongly suggest HUNTED as your subsequent learn.