A fast pace crime thriller: Evan Powers has become the new manager in Nick Grady's well-established marijuana growing operation. Led by his roommate and best friend, little has changed in Nick's secretive business since the late '60s, which is just the way the aging hippie would like it to remain. However, Nick's complex past comes full circle, thrusting Evan in a scramble to decipher the truth behind the enigmatic lives of the people he holds dear. Deep in the woods, demons will be unleashed.
Assessment:
Plot: The plot moves resolutely along and readers answer the book's many questions at the same pace as the narrator, which makes for an engaging read. The fast paced conclusion resolves the book in a satisfying way.
Prose: The author's style is polished, fits the genre well, and serves the book.
Originality: The surprises that come at the end lift the whole above expectations for a conventional thriller.
Character Development: Evan's gradual understanding of what he's gotten into is well developed, while the truth about Nick is slowly and deftly revealed.
Blurb: What appears at first to be an engaging but fairly conventional thriller -- involving a large marijuana growing operation, Russian mobsters, undercover drug agents, and a biker gang -- wraps up with a series of unexpected and shocking plot reversals that brings the book to a violent, surprising, and powerful end.
Date Submitted: March 30, 2017
"From the very first page it is action packed ... I read it in one day."
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