I have a particularly annoying habit of reading books of a series out of order. As was once again the case when I picked up Jason Pinter’s The Fury.
Fortunately, the author anticipated people like me and wrote this as well as the sequel with that in mind – so it’s all good.
Henry Parker escaped his mundane life as an only child of two pathetic parents in Bend, Oregon to chase his journalist dreams in Manhattan.
The past will meet the present when Parker discovers he has a brother; a man recently found murdered in an Alphabet City apartment.
Although the old saying tells us that curiousity killed the cat, journalists are notorious for ignoring common sense to get the story; but for Henry Parker, it’s more than just the story.
The fourth in a series known as the Henry Parker novels, The Fury furiously leaves the starting gate; hooking a reader from the get-go with a concatenation of events that leads to a cryptic ending – the setting for book five, The Darkness.
Sure, it’s another book where the good guy saves the day and gets the girl (as another reviewer commented); but it’s the writing style, the vivid descriptions of New York, and tightly knit plot without lulls that sealed my new found addiction to Pinter’s books.
Pinter’s Henry Parker novels begins with The Mark, followed by (in order) The Guilty, The Stolen, and The Fury. The next release in the series (and a continuation of The Fury) is The Darkness.
Visit Jason Pinter’s website at www.jasonpinter.com.
