When finding criminals is your business, it’s easy to make a killing.
Finn Harding (Mr. Finn to his clients) specializes in finding people who don’t want to be found. Stripped of his PI license, Finn begins working for the type of clientele who operate in the shadows, pay in cash, and don’t care if he’s licensed or not. As Finn becomes ensnared in a plot to take over a black-market information brokerage, he finds himself and his family straddling the thin line between life and death. With his own clients gunning for him, Finn must evade a psychopathic killer, special agents from the FBI’s cybercrime unit, and a Detroit mob boss.
Finn is about to find out that working with criminals has its advantages. Staying alive isn’t one of them.
Trace Conger delivers a sharp-edged and gritty tale of crime, murder, and family. It’s a fast-paced crime thriller that holds nothing back.
My New Favorite Author – Trace Conger hits a homer with his Mr Finn character! AMAZING read. I LOVE this author. His ability to paint a mental picture in the readers minds of all the characters in this story in nothing short of magical. I was instantly invested in the main character, Mr. Finn. He’s a lovable loser and you really root for him to succeed in his various endeavors. He’s smart as a whip, shameless, and a real man’s man. His vulnerable side shows in his interactions with his daughter and father.Â
“I’ve got no problem putting someone down who deserves it, but I didn’t sign up for pliers and skinning knives…” Generally hard to go wrong when you find a Shamus Award winner and you like them hard-boiled as I do. Book does have quite a large amount of foul language present (over 60 uses of the shi* word and even more of the f-word) and graphic violence aplenty as is the norm for this genre. Interesting to note that the protagonist becomes something of an anti-hero given his violent nature tho still wanting to play the ‘family man’ with regards to his daughter, might be why I found his gruff father to be…
Graphic Violence Nice guy decides he’ll kill for money and the book rolls on with endless, graphic violence. I would not recommend this to anyone who doesn’t want to read graphic details of torture and violence. I did not finish it and wish more people who give reviews would warn prospective readers that this is what they can look forward to reading, even if they themselves liked the book.