Sunday, January 9, 2011

Dead run

This is the third book in the Monkeewrench series (Want to Play & Live Bait being nos 1 & 2).

It's just a normal day in Four Corners, a small crossroads town somewhere in mid Wisconsin.

No-one pays any attention as a milk tanker drives through but then the tanker overturns and as the townsfolk go to help something happens to them & they collapse.

Meanwhile Monkeewrench's Grace McBride & Annie Belinsky, and FBI agent Sharon Mueller are planning to drive from Minneapolis to Green Bay to deliver their crime fighting software to local police forces.

When their car breaks down they hike into Four Corners only to find a ghost town - everything left as thought the inhabitants had temporarily left the room.

They soon discover that all the townsfolk have been killed and that soldiers in full camo gear are hunting for them too.

Most of this story is excellent - suspenseful & intriguing - however it falters a bit towards the end.

Yet my overall impression is a good read.

4.

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