More miss than a hit for me.

Shortest Summary Ever: Coop – a soldier in Afghanistan, 2003 finds out his wife was killed. While home for her funeral he goes AWOL to try to uncover her killer amongst Albanian gangsters and his wife’s wealthy family he’s never known.

My Thoughts. First, I fully affirm I’m usually love it or hate it in the action-thriller genre. You can’t just have guys punching each other and killing each other. I need STORY. The first 30% of the book I wasn’t feeling and almost DNF due to a plethora of unexplained military jargon that I had to define. Then the story picked up and was enjoyable but for me fell apart at about 75%. I think the fatal flaw for me was not being invested in the characters – it finally got to the point I kind of didn’t care who killed whom. 🤷🏼‍♀️ It just didn’t work for me.

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Genre: Action Thriller/Mystery

Recommend to: If you have more military knowledge this might work and be more intriguing.

Not recommended to: If you’re over the movie Taken and the Albanian terrorist thing.

Thank you to the author, Random House, and Netgalley for the ARC in exchange for my always-honest review.