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Captured

Captured, February 2015
by Neil Cross

Open Road Media
Featuring: Jonathan Reese; Callie Barton; Kenny Drummond
268 pages
ISBN: 1497692512
EAN: 9781497692510
Kindle: B00QN350SU
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"The horrific results from a twisted domino effect of revenge offers a mind bending tale."

Fresh Fiction Review

Captured
Neil Cross

Reviewed by Lynn Cunningham
Posted January 22, 2015

Thriller

No one could have imagined the crazy, twisted sort of domino effect that would occur on the day that the doctor gave Kenny Drummond the news of his death sentence. There is a cancerous tumor in his brain that is aggressively growing. In short, it is killing him and he only has a very few weeks left on this earth. Kenny is used to bad news and bad things happening to him. His entire life has been like that except for his ex-wife Mary and his best friend Stever. He still loves them both dearly even though they are now married to each other. They are both his best friends in the world and they will take the news hard. He has to tell them soon, but for now, he wants to make up a list of people that he feels he needs to make things right with. It was a short list and the last person on it is Carrie Barton, the girl who had made his sad existence when he was a child just a little easier and happier. He never got to tell her how much she meant to him and he really wants to do that before he died. Finding her after all these years proves to be harder than he imagined. It seems that Carrie went missing four years earlier and was never found. Her husband Jonathan had been a suspect in her disappearance for a long time, but with no proof, they have not been able to arrest him. This is all very useful information to him because it is clear how he can make things "right" for Carrie. He must find out what happened to her and insure that she gets justice. The first place to start is her husband and Kenny is a man with nothing to lose. CAPTURED is highly engrossing book. It's almost like watching something so horribly personal that you are ashamed for the inability to look away. Kenny Drummond is one of the most memorable characters in recent memory. The actions he undertakes to discover what really happened to Carrie will make your jaw drop and keep your brain struggling to process everything that is happening. With CAPTURED, Neil Cross has dropped his readers into a world of reality that is almost too hard to take at times, but is always, always mesmerizing. I was hooked from the first page and could not let go as more twists and turns kept me as breathless as if I was on a roller coaster. If you enjoy well-written, chilling stories that will make you reach for several light switches while reading, do yourself a favor and get a copy of CAPTURED as soon as possible!

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SUMMARY

Given only weeks to live, Kenny Drummond finds a mystery worth dying to solve In this gripping psychological thriller from the creator of Luther, Kenny Drummond has been diagnosed with late-stage brain cancer and is writing a list—a list of all the people he has let down in one way or another. He is determined to make amends before the black smudge that keeps showing up on his scans exercises its final power over him. Working his way down the list, Kenny comes to an old schoolmate, Callie Barton, who was kind when he needed a friend. He heard she dated and eventually married Jonathan Reese, and that they live in Bath. But no matter how hard he tries, Kenny can’t seem to get ahold of Callie; she’s disappeared without a trace. In fact, there are rumors that Reese wasn’t the kindest husband. And he sure seems like he has something to hide. Now Kenny has a ticking clock and a promise to keep, and nothing’s going to stand in his way.


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