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Today’s Frightful Friday book is The Silenced by Brett Battles:
Jonathan Quinn is a cleaner, responsible for disposing of dead bodies and cleaning crime scenes to remove all traces of evidence.
In The Silenced, the fourth book in this series, Quinn & his crew have been tasked with removing a long-dead body that has been hidden within the walls of a building scheduled to be demolished in London.
Additionally, they’ve been asked to clean up various scenes across the US. At the first location, while in the process of cleaning the scene, someone appears on scene. Quinn follows this individual and learns it’s a Russian-speaking woman. Later, she also appears at another scene, a seemingly remote spot, before the hit has even occured. Quinn and his team are immediately on alert. Who is this woman and how does she seem to appear at each of their clean-up locations?
Meanwhile, Quinn has learned that someone has been snooping into his past, one that he’s kept hidden for years. Despite his attempts at covering up his true identity, his mother & sister are put at risk as a means to manipulate Quinn & his actions.
Battles has done an outstanding job with this series. While this is my first introduction to Quinn & his crew, I felt I learned more about Quinn & his past than I would have in any of the previous books. Quinn is not a man to be messed with, especially if you threaten the lives of those he loves. From the beginning, The Silenced gets your heart racing! It’s full of all the action thriller readers love & crave, including gun fights, car chases, but also allows you to really get inside the mind of the characters, to learn their motives for what they do. Quinn is a character I defintely want to learn more about; I can’t wait to check out the other books in this series! Highly recommended!
Be sure to check out other reviews:
Musings of an All-Purpose Monkey
Pop Culture Nerd
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