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J.A. Konrath

2008 • 271 pages

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Average rating4.3

TRAPPED WITH A SERIAL KILLER... SURROUNDED BY SNIPERS...

Things are going well for Lieutenant Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels of the Chicago Police Department. She has solved some of the city's toughest and most high-profile homicides. Her personal life is finally in order. Her friends and family are safe and happy. And she just got a call that eased her mind like nothing else could: Alex Kork, one of the most dangerous criminals Jack ever arrested, killed herself while in jail.

But things sour quickly when a group of vigilantes on a murderous spree decide to take down a cop and the people she cares about... and they turn downright awful when Jack discovers that Kork may not be dead after all.

Trapped in her house with a psycho and everyone she cares about, and unable to leave because she's surrounded by snipers, the next eight hours will be the worst of Jack's life. And that's saying something.

Crossovers - Features Jack Daniels, Phineas Troutt, Harry McGlade, and includes characters from the Konrath Dark Thriller Collective, the Codename: Chandler series, and the Timecaster series.

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Jack Daniels Thrillers

Jack Daniels Thrillers is a 23-book series with 23 released primary works first released in 2004 with contributions by J.A. Konrath, Blake Crouch, and Jack Kilborn.

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hc.newton

WOW. Just wow. This starts off as a pretty conventional Jack Daniels' tale – nasty murder pulled off by someone very clever, who has a big plan for further acts of malfeasance. Jack and Harry wise crack their way through an examination of a crime scene – razzing a young cop (and educating him a bit), all in all a fun day at the office.

And then things get crazy. The murderer they're initially investigating turns out to be a worse monster than expected. Aaaaaand, on the Jack's homefront, things get very scary and very bloody.

After about page 40 (I'm guessing, don't have the book with me), this becomes something totally unlike anything Jack and her friends and family have been through yet. Harrowing stuff.

There's some major character development here that was quite shocking and horribly funny. I laughed out loud – a lot – during this one (in between the sitting on the edge of my seat stuff)

December 23, 2012

Steve Manke

Hands down, my favorite book in the series so far. Much more action and suspense than any previous release, this one ratchets things up. Jack has bad guys coming out of her ears and Harry brings comedy to a new level. Good times!

July 24, 2018