Everybody knows one of those people who seem to manage
to step in shit and come out smelling like a rose. Erik Storey’s lead character
Clyde Barr…is not one of those guys. Clyde is not the kind of guy who needs to
go look for trouble, because it will undoubtedly find him.
Storey’s second installment in the Clyde Barr series, A Promise to Kill, finds our every man
hero attempting a return to civilization from a time spent recovering from his
last go ‘round out in the wilderness, where he feels most at home. Hankering
for a bit of human interaction Clyde drops headlong into what evolves into not
only a strange friendship, but what could potentially be an international
terror plot.
Action is not in short supply as Clyde confronts a biker
gang, the Reapers, who seem to be more than a little out of place in a small
Indian reservation town in the hills of Utah. The bikers have a secret they’d
like to keep to themselves involving some misappropriated military hardware and
they have a specific buyer in mind. Like a bull in a proverbial china shop,
Clyde stumbles, rumbles and bumbles right into the middle of things. Think Sons of Anarchy meets 24.
Once again Storey does a masterful job of not only parceling
out the story, but of keep the pace rolling along at a break neck speed. He
also infuses Clyde with the innate ability to bring out the best and the worst in
the folks around; ordinary, average folks are able to do amazing things and the
bad guys are also able to kick the evil up a notch.
Storey manages to once again churn out one of my
favorite novels of the year thus far and certainly has me looking forward to
the net installment of the adventures of Clyde “Trouble” Barr.
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