The pacing is at a quick tempo, with barely a pause for breath, and there are multiple mini-cliffhanger moments that keep the pages turning. John Hart has interwoven two main storylines and their various subplots together to create a multi-layered tale. There’s a heck of a lot going on in Redemption Road. And not only does Adrian looked doomed, but it looks likely that she’ll also be heading for prison. Attention is quickly focused on the newly released convict, despite Elizabeth’s best efforts to intervene. The following day another woman is found dead in the same place and laid out in the same way as the victim Adrian was convicted for. On the day he’s released, Gideon – another of Elizabeth’s young charges and son of the murdered woman – seeks out Adrian with the intention of shooting him dead. He’s always pleaded innocence, but only a handful of people believe him, including Elizabeth.
Ex-cop Adrian Wall has been suffering torture at the hands of a prison warden and guards while serving 13 years for the death of a local woman. Now she’s being pursued for excessive violence and torture of suspects. When rescuing a young girl who has been abducted and raped by two black suspects she pumps 18 bullets into the pair, include joints and genitals. It marks a new high point in the writing of this bestselling master of the literary thriller.Elizabeth Black is a tough cop living with a dark secret that draws her to over-protect vulnerable children.
It is not the first to be found.īrimming with tension, secrets, and betrayal, brilliantly evoking an America of small towns and remote landscapes, of the abandoned, the derelict and the desperate, this is a novel so chillingly suspenseful and a story so full of twists and turns that you simply cannot stop reading. But that is the least of Adrian's problems.Īnd deep in the forest, on the altar of an abandoned church, a body cools in pale linen. In the very first room he walks into, a boy with a gun is waiting to avenge the death of his mother. And she's not the only one.Īdrian Wall is finally free after thirteen years of torture and abuse.
But she's also a cop with a history, a woman with a secret.
She is a cop who single-handedly rescued a young girl from a locked cellar and shot two brutal kidnappers dead.
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