Well, I’m officially all caught up on Christopher Rice
novels and am ready for his next one to be released. This one was definitely not my favorite of
his books but I still liked it and thought it was interesting.
John Houck is a discharged Marine who is still struggling
with a mistake he made in Iraq that seriously injured Mike, his friend and commanding
officer. After a long period of silence
between them, John goes over to visit his friend only to discover Mike’s
murdered body. He chases down the person
that he believes to be responsible for his death, but instead finds out that
this person was Mike’s lover, Alex, and that he is being framed for the
crime. John, a serious homophobe,
struggles with the reality of Mike’s homosexuality while trying to bring to
justice the man that really killed him.
As I said, this isn’t my favorite of Rice’s novels, mostly
because the two main protagonists are fairly unlikeable. I have no sympathy for homophobia, no matter
what background a person might have, so it was difficult to like John even
though he was trying to do the right thing.
Alex was not a pleasant character either; he was very entitled and unnecessarily
combative. But it was still an
interesting story and Rice has a gift for building suspense, so I will probably
end up reading it again in the future.
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