Happy Friday! Any exciting plans for the weekend?
Kurt is a former hard charging Detroit cop. Grieving the death of his wife, he goes on a road trip for a change of scenery. When he sees a young girl being lured away by a predator, he steps in to help and beats the guy up. Kurt didn’t know the guy was connected to the corrupt local sheriff. Kurt is arrested and charged. Instead of keeping Kurt in the local lockup until his arraignment, the sheriff sends him to a high security prison. Julie, the governor’s daughter, is a grad student on a tour of the prison as part of a class assignment. While at the prison, the security and communications systems go down, releasing all the prisoners. Mayhem ensues. Kurt helps Julie and two state troopers fight to survive an onslaught of the state’s most dangerous convicts as they try to make their way up to the top floor of the prison to call for help.
This is an over the top, action packed thriller by author Adam Plantinga. Kurt is a rough and tough guy who’s not afraid of a fight and to mete out his own form of justice. He reminded me of Jack Reacher, but bloodier. The pace is nonstop and I enjoyed the narration by Charles Halford and Christine Lakin. This one reads like an action movie on steroids. Is it believable? Nope. Did I like it anyway? I sure did. Will I read the next book in this series? I sure will.
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About the Author
Adam Plantinga is a patrol sergeant with the San Francisco Police Department whose first two nonfiction books— 400 Things Cops Know and Police Craft— have become his calling cards to the world of thrillers. 400 Things was nominated for an Agatha, a Macavity, and was deemed “the new Bible for crime writers” by the Wall Street Journal. Adam’s fiction debut, The Ascent, was published in 2024 and became a USA Today bestseller. Hard Town, his second novel, published earlier this month.
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