Nate Overbay is a veteran suffering from PTSD, who is also
dying from ALS. His plan to kill himself by jumping from
the ledge of a Los Angeles bank building is interrupted
when shots ring out inside the bank and blood covers the
partially opened window beside him. While the robbers are
occupied randomly shooting employees and breaking into the
vault's lock boxes, Nate is able to climb in the window and
take possession of a gun one of the men laid down to free
his hand to pilfer the tellers' money. In quick succession,
five of the robbers are killed by Nate, but the last man
gets away with an unnerving promise to Nate.
Of course, Nate becomes the hero of the day and the center
of everyone's attention, especially Pavlo, the Ukrainian
mob boss who's plan to take something important from one of
the bank vault's boxes was thwarted by Nate. Kidnapped by
Pavlo's men, Nate is told he is now responsible for
acquiring that item from the bank. If not, Nate's ex-wife
and teenage daughter will slowly be killed -- while he
watches. With time running out and the lives of the people
he loves the most on the line, Nate must devise a plan to
get the item in the time frame Pavlo has allotted with the
mobsters always on his tail. This chilling race against the
clock has Nate reevaluating everything in his life and how
he can make it all work out in the end.
THE SURVIVOR is a fast-paced, mesmerizing thriller rich in
characterization and emotional depth. Gregg Hurwitz
delivers an engrossing storyline with compelling conflict
and a pulse-pounding conclusion. This novel kept my
interest at a high level beginning to end -- a highly
recommended read.
One morning in Los Angeles, Nate Overbay — a divorced
former solider suffering from PTSD and slowly dying from
ALS — goes to an eleventh-floor bank, climbs out of the
bathroom window onto the ledge, and gets ready to end it
all. But as he’s steeling himself, a crew of robbers bursts
into the bank and begins to viciously shoot employees and
customers. With nothing to lose, Nate confronts the
robbers, taking them out one-by-one. The last man standing
leaves Nate with a cryptic warning.
Nate soon learns what that message meant. He is kidnapped
by Pavlo, a savage Russian mobster and mastermind of the
failed heist. Unable to break back into the bank to get the
critical item inside, Pavlo gives Nate an ultimatum — break
in and get what he needs or watch Pavlo slowly kill the one
thing Nate loves most — his ex-wife Janie and his teenaged
daughter Cielle — both lost when he came back from Iraq
broken and confused. Now he’s got one last chance to
protect the people he loves, even if it’s the last thing he
is able to do.
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