Hunting Time: A gripping new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Final Twist (Colter Shaw Thriller, Book 4)

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I have read the first two novels and the last Lincoln Rhyme novel. I personally like this series over the Lincoln Rhyme novel. This author has earned my Must-Read rating for this series. I recommend reading this novel, and I am looking forward to reading further books in this series and will carefully consider other novels by this author. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this novel and rate it with five stars. Hunting Time is clearly the best Colter Shaw novel yet, and is highly recommended to thriller aficionados who want good writing, constant building suspense, and spine-chilling story-line with a unanticipated dénouement. Deaver is a master and if it were possible, this novel deserves more than 5 stars. Slight of hand and allowing us to assume where the story is going, means the author always stays one step ahead of his readers. The question, ratcheted up through increasing tension - can Shaw preserve life and outthink an enemy who outgun and outnumber him. Hunting Time” is the fourth installment in Jeffery Deaver’s Colter Shaw series, and it delivers an exhilarating and suspenseful reading experience. Although I have only read one other book in the series and some of the author’s other works, I found “Hunting Time” to be a captivating standalone novel. Set in Ferrington, a once-prosperous industrial town in the American Midwest, the story follows Colter Shaw, a reward seeker and survivalist, who is hired by Marty Harmon, CEO of Welbourne and Sons, to find Allison Parker. Allison, a senior nuclear engineer and a mother on the run with her daughter Hannah, is being pursued by her abusive ex-husband, Jon Merritt, a decorated former police detective recently released from prison.

Jeffery Deaver was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1950. He was born from a mother who was a homemaker, and a father that worked as an advertising copywriter, which seems a bit of foreshadowing. He has one younger sister named Julie Deaver. A very interesting fact is that he actually completed his first (two chapter) book when he was as young as eleven years old. She is the chief designer and developer of a new miniature reactor that offers hope for fuel economy into the future.

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Definitely recommend the book. It was a great mystery/thriller that kept me guessing until the end. Loved the characters, story and writing style. Look forward to reading more books by the author. Terrific writing, vivid and raw, Deaver grips from the very first line and never lets up. He is, hands-down, one of the finest thriller writers of our time` Peter James

The novel starts with Colter Shaw disrupting an insider industrial espionage attempt by using an intricate scheme to switch a sensitive and unique electronic device with a fake. While returning to the CEO’s office, Shaw is approached by person with a Russian-like accent who gives his name as Abe Lincoln. Shaw had just spoiled his effort to obtain that electronic device. Lincoln offers a good price and keeps upping it for the device, but Shaw refuses. The second thread starts in the second chapter that portrays the very early release of Jon Merritt from the local county detention center. He is the husband to the woman, Allison Parker, who designed the electronic device. He was incarcerated for the attempted of his wife. This is a high-stakes, life-and-death chess match between multiple individuals, each with the skills and abilities to outwit the others. And, in quintessential Deaver style, full of twists and turns. I also enjoyed the ending, which is the place where many otherwise good books lose me.

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This is a tense and exciting addition to Jeffery Deaver's crime thriller series featuring the reward hunter, Colt Shaw, raised by his late survivalist professor father, Ashton, with his family, mother, Mary Dove, sister Dorian and brother Russell. He travels the country in his Winnebago home, with his unique specialist skills and approach, which includes assigning probabilities to any possibilities which serves him well. Here, he finds himself in the midwest at a once prosperous industrial town, Ferrington, with its toxic river, hired by Marty Harmon, CEO of Welbourne and Sons to retrieve stolen valuable miniature portable nuclear technology. When the irreplaceable senior nuclear engineer, 42 year Allison Parker, goes on the run from her abusive husband, a decorated former FPD detective, Jon Merritt, released early from prison after being convicted of assault and battery with a deadly weapon, Harmon asks Shaw to find and protect her. Deaver lite: a fleet, irresistible tale with just enough twists to have been imagined by someone else. The B-storyline was portrayed basically through Shaw’s thoughts and his interactions with the other characters. His principal that he uses to guide his life are shown through his actions and how he portrayed in how he treated others and tried to help them grow. This novel’s aspect increased my enjoyment in reading this novel. There was one aspect that made me think that I had missed something from the previous novel that I have not yet read. Something was different in Shaw in this novel, as his business model and infrastructure was revealed much more extensively and was different than what I remember in the first two novels. I read the second novel in this series more than two years ago, so my detailed memory of Shaw is not that solid. I only noticed this only because I had read the first two novels and didn’t read the third. If you are thinking of reading this novel first, I do not believe that you would recognize this. Feel free to read this one novel first. It’s when the milieu moves from the urban to the wilderness that Shaw’s survival skills, learnt from his father Ashton, come to the fore. Plus, of course, no Deaver novel would be complete without its totally out of the blue plot twist, and the one delivered about three quarters the way through this novel is one of the best. It totally blows all one’s earlier preconceptions out of the water. For what may be objectionable to some readers, there is a presence of vulgar and rude language. Vulgar was about one-third of the total. There are a few instances of impious language. For me aspect of the novel was not an issue for me and, I suspect, not for most readers. There were not any intimate scenes. There is violence, some implied and some described in the more edgy way as it happens. For the novel overall, I do not believe that these aspects are a reason not to read this novel.

The beauty of Hunting Time, as with the earlier books in the Colter Shaw series, is the unexpected twists that are thrown at you in rapid succession. Just when you think you’ve got a handle on the direction you’re headed, Deaver manages to throw in another unexpected wrinkle to prove that he’s got it over you once again. Lightning-fast and loaded with twists, The Never Game is a thrill a minute from one of the best. Don`t miss it` Harlan Coben A free-style mosaic of a thriller which masks any clear idea in the reader’s mind, preventing the clarity of thought of where the plot is really going. Misdirection and fresh insights interwoven into the basic premise reveal new truths and clear perceptions of the characters and their motives. As the picture clears and comes into focus it is not always the image and preconceived ideas we once anticipated.

The Coffin Dancer is a story about a narcissistic serial killer that has unbelievably flown under the radar of the police for quite some time. The killer was employed to take care of three witnesses before they testify in front of the grand jury, for a case they obviously knew something that would help the prosecutor win the conviction. That's the start of an exciting and engrossing story as hunted and hunters play cat and mouse with lives at stake. Deaver keeps the thrills coming ,and throws some of his trademark curveballs to keep the reader on their toes. and Red Herrings will never become an endangered species as long as he keeps writing.