Into the Fire
by Suzanne Brockmann
Published by Ballantine Books
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Reviewed by Stephanie Boyd
Vinh Murphy, a former marine and past operative for Troubleshooter’s Incorporated, lost his ability to cope with his job, his friends, or his life in general, when his wife was cruelly murdered during what should have been a simple bodyguard job. For the past few years he has dropped out of sight and wondered around drunk or drugged during most of that time.
Murphy’s one anchor to normality has been his best friend Hannah Whitfield, a former police officer that was injured on the job and lost her hearing. Now Murphy is sober and finally showing signs of returning to life when he and Hannah discover that Tim Ebersole, the leader of the group Murphy holds responsible for his wife’s death, has been murdered and the FBI’s primary suspect is Murphy. Even Murphy doesn’t know if he did it; his life was a series of bars and his memory is foggy so that he doesn’t even know where he was during the time frame of the murder. Can Hannah and Murphy’s friends at Troubleshooters find the truth in time to save Murphy or will someone kill him first?
Into the Fire is the thirteenth book in Suzanne Brockmann’s Troubleshooter’s series. The book can be read stand alone but many of the characters in the story have appeared in the other books in the series and I am glad I had read them first. I have to admit my bias here: I love the very strong characters, extremely suspenseful situations, and the somewhat violent action that characterizes this series by Brockmann. Excessive violence, even death often occur in these books but it is a part of the story and used to illustrate the extreme and inhuman measures the bad guys will go to in order to get their way. She also uses it to demonstrate just how strong some characters can be and how far humans can be pushed before we break.
_Into the Fire is every bit as exciting, emotional, action packed, and suspenseful as Brockmann’s other books in this series, and I hated to put it down until I reached the end.
Armchair Interviews says: Hold onto your reading hat—this is action packed.
Author’s Web site: http://www.SuzanneBrockman.com