Thursday 11 May 2023

THE FINAL TWIST BY JEFFERY DEAVER




 “Jeffery Deaver takes the reader on tortuous journeys and doesn’t spare the detail”


Four thrillers have been published so far with Hunting Time being the last. The Goodbye Man and The Never Game have preceded The Final Twist.


The Shaw family history lies within the books and as the stories unfold we learn more about it. Colter Shaw is the youngest, Russell is an older brother, and Dorion is the sister. There is intrigue and mystery surrounding the absent older brother and that leaves us with Colter as our main man.


He is a reward seeker in the sense of tracking people who have walked away, become lost, or are the victims of kidnapping. He does it for money but he displays values and high ethics. He is the good guy in an otherwise dirty business. 


So far his investigations have taken him into ‘the cult world’ and through the ‘gaming world’ where nothing is as it seems. At the same time as he is seeking to find an individual he is drawn into dangerous situations where people intend to stop him. 


The Final Twist, set in west coast America, is where his search to find the truth places him in extreme danger. They are ‘the big players’ who wish to subvert to gain control and power. And, in doing so, we learn much more of what the family are involved in.


 I’ve made this book seem a simple read but there are so many happenings that will take the reader easily elsewhere for a chapter or three. Twists and turns abound and the story lines are on going. It is continuous and in this third book Russell, the elder son, suddenly appears. He can handle himself as well. But what next?  We now  know in the final chapter both sons are together in the company of their mother. But what do they hope to achieve? So there it is with Hunting Times still to read.


I suggest you read them in the order they were published as there are clear and obvious links running through. 


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