Bøger af H Berkeley Rourke

A thriller set in the burgeoning city of Phoenix. This book stars Josie Du Puy of fame in earlier novels by this author. This is a fast paced book that runs from one set of circumstances involving a mad bomber to another. Of course it is the job of the police to catch the guy. But a bomber is the most difficult type of criminal to apprehend. If he is devious and careful, as in this book, he might get away with a large number of crimes. You will know the love of Josie and Ned, the fear of families facing an intractable killer, the apprehension of the public about the bomber. And you may want to take a look back at three other books that are by the same author starring Josie. Enjoy.

The lead character in this book is a sociopath. He kills a man in the commission of a burglary after he has already committed repeated acts of child molestation with his teenage daughter. His is an old story, one with tragic beginnings, one that was set in concrete for him from the time of his early childhood. His life is flawed from its outset almost. And by the time he is a ten year old he has to fend off the advances of his sick parent/Father that has molested him for five years at that point. In addition he is beaten by his Father regularly for any fault or error regardless of the fact that he is most a little boy when these things occur. Life sucks, as the saying goes. And Randall Evans life really sucks. He has opportunity for change but blows it completely with inappropriate conduct with his own child. The spiral of downward life having begun he never turns it around. He alliterates his narrative by comparing his bad times to the ruins of buildings. And he looks at these ruins from the perspective of a photographer who is taking snapshots of life. The final paragraphs of the book take you to the ultimate time for this man. But it is his life, the mess he made of it, and the mess his Father started it out to be that is the story here.

A story set in the late times of the "old west." A boy commits a heinous crime, is caught, tried and convicted of rape and murder and is sentenced to life in prison rather than hanging. An escape is arranged by his father and he successfully escapes and runs to the north of Yuma in the Arizona Territory. The chase is on with Ralph Forney and Ross Hendershot, two close friends, leading the attempts to capture the young man. That is only natural since Ralph's daughter was the victim of the crime. Hired guns, shoot outs and the descriptions of the characters and their lives as well as Arizona of the 1890's make this a fast paced read that is rapid fire in nature.