Hand of Fate (A Triple Threat Novel)
You know, sometimes the scariest books are not the horror books. They are books like Hand of Fate
The second installment in a New York Times best-selling series featuring three professional female crime fighters. Fox News legal correspondent Lis Wiehl teams up with veteran mystery novelist April Henry for this compelling new mystery. Warning: this one’s not for the faint of heart.
Hand of Fate A Triple Threat Novel
When the host of a popular Portland, OR radio talk show is murdered, the Triple Threat Club—a federal prosecutor, an FBI agent, and a journalist—must narrow down the lengthy list of suspects who wanted him dead.
Outspoken radio talk show host Jim Fate dies tragically and dramatically when poisonous gas fills his recording booth while his show, “The Hand of Fate” is on air. In the ensuing panic, police evacuate downtown Portland, leaving FBI Special Agent Nicole Hedges trapped in a high-rise building.
Crime reporter Cassidy Shaw is the only journalist brave enough to report from the scene as chaos overtakes the streets. And federal prosecutor Allison Pierce must rescue a child separated from her family even as she escapes the danger herself.
In the days following Fate’s murder, these three colleagues and friends team up to piece together the not-so public life of Jim Fate in order to uncover the stunning truth of who killed him—and why.
I started this book yesterday and couldn’t put it down. What a thriller! In the times that we are living in, when terrorist plots using biochemicals are a very real threat, where left and right wing extremists exist and cause harm, the events in this book are not too hard to imagine happening.
The book is fast paced, action packed, not one boring moment where you want to put it down and go find something else to do for a bit. The 3 friends in the book, Cassidy, Allison, and Nic are believable and your heart feels for them when they each go through their own personal trials apart from trying to figure out who killed Jim Fate.
I would love to go through the motive of the killer, why this person did what they did (and that ended up being a real twist!), but I would ruin the ending of the book for you. I will say the motive they had, what they were angry about, that is something very real, something that is happening in our society today.
Just another one of the issues that our government fights about, but doesn’t really take serious action on.
I’m not for big government, I tend to believe that the more the government steps in and tries to “fix” things, the more they mess things up. The whole “too many cooks in the kitchen” analogy. But, I also think without them peering over the shoulder of certain businesses, that some people will take short cuts, they will risk the public for the almighty dollar.
See how this book makes you think?
I had to laugh because at the end of the book there are letters from radio hosts, from Bill O’Reilly to Mark Levin, saying, awesome book! Thanks for basing Jim Fate on me. I love talk radio myself. I tend to be more middle of the road, leaning towards the right, but I listen to whatever is on here, usually Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Jan Mikelson, Bradshaw, etc. (BTW, on the list, our local guy, Bradshaw, is my fave. I don’t always agree with him, but he always makes me think, and usually laugh.) When you hear some of the people who call in, the hate that is in their voice, you can see why this might actually be a viable threat to them.
Highly recommend this book to anyone who loves current events, anyone who loves a great mystery, an awesome thriller, anyone who loves to read period. Lis Wiehl is a new author to me and I really liked her style.
Thank you to Thomas Nelson Publishers & BookSneeze.com for providing me with a copy of Hand of Fate (A Triple Threat Novel)
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Thanks for the review, I’m always looking for new books out there and as a talk radio fan, I think this would be the book for me. Thanks!