Published by Random House - Genres: Crime, Fiction, Mystery, suspense, thriller
Format: ARC, eBook
WOWZA
First off, If Alan Drew is not on your radar, he needs to be. This is the second book in the Detective Ben Wade series and although I felt this book worked beautifully as a stand-alone, why not go back and read Shadow Man. So very good!!
Hate Crimes are horrific. The book begins with the discovery of the body of a dog outside of a Vietnamese grocery store, and the horrors go on from there. Migrant Mexican strawberry pickers are brutalized, and a wealthy man is found dead in his pool. Are these crimes related? This is the question that Detective Ben Wade and Forensic expert Natasha Betencour must answer.
White supremacists and the vulnerable youth it attracts are portrayed in this book. This is a gritty, gruesome, and intense book that looks at hate, brutality and how some are courted and recruited into a world of hate.
This book is so good but won’t be for everyone. The author shows the ugliness of hate. He does not sugarcoat anything. Whew!
This was a compelling, thought provoking and brutal book. I enjoyed being reacquainted with Ben and Natasha. They are a great couple, and I enjoyed the investigation.
Well written and powerful.
#TheRecruit #NetGalley.
Thank you to Random House and NetGalley who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All the thoughts and opinions are my own.