Blackwater

"Positively crackles from first page to last... Astonishingly accomplished. If you read one thriller this year make it this one." Daily Mail Deputy Sheriff Early Simms of the Blackwater County Sheriff's Department knows about the violence that incubates within the souls of men - and that sometimes it needs a release. As a high school football player he relished inflicting pain, until he made a tackle that left a promising young athlete dead from a broken neck. Early did not play another game and his dreams of leaving the small town that he grew up in never materialised. Instead, he followed his father into the town's police force.Now older, Early is outwardly content with the life he has made for himself in Blackwater. But that life is about to be turned upside down. Kate Foley, his high school girlfriend, arrives in town on the run from an abusive husband and it stirs feelings that Early thought he had forgotten.Jimmy and Marshall Cain are brothers - men with the capacity for the kind of violence that Early Simms knows all too well. A botched home invasion by the brothers goes horribly wrong, leaving a man and woman dead and their teenage daughter kidnapped. Events spiral further out of control, with the brothers embarking on a killing spree that leads them to a confrontation with Early Simms and an FBI task force. At the same time, Kate Foley's husband is armed and on the hunt for his wife. Early is about to find himself in a fight not just for the life he has known, but for the future he has glimpsed in stolen moments with Kate. And to defeat the maelstrom hurtling towards him, he must once again confront the violence in his own soul.Praise for GJ Moffat". . . already he's claiming a place on the 'Unmissable' shelf."Daily Record "Elegant and unexpected, it isn't to be missed."Daily Mail"Awesome. Very highly recommended."www.eurocrime.co.uk


Genre: Mystery