UNTHINKABLE by Brad Parks - Review & Giveaway

 


It's summer and that can mean only one thing for readers of thrillers! A new Brad Parks novel. UNTHINKABLE (ThomasMercer) has an unlikely hero racing to the very last unexpected climatic ending.

Nate Lovejoy is the stay-at-home dad of three-year-old Parker and eighteen-month-old Cate. He's a lawyer, but isn't practicing because his lawyer wife, Jenny is the household breadwinner. One morning while his wife is at work and the girls are at their grandparents, there's a knock on the backdoor of their Richmond, Virginia home. Nate opens it and a tranquilizer dart is stuck in his neck. When he wakes up, he's sure he's going to be killed because he saw the assailant's faces. 

But his kidnappers, The Praesidium (TheProtectors) have an unthinkable agenda for Nate. They want him to kill his wife so she doesn't go forward with a class action suit of two-hundred-and-seventy-nine plaintiffs against a coal/electricity plant. Leader of The Praesidium, Vanslow DeGange is able to predict the cause and affect of  horrible things happening. He has forecast that the legal issues of the lawsuit don't morally out-weigh the number of people that will be killed by the power plant. 

Nate thinks he's being played, but then DeGange predicts an auto accident and tornado, which happen turning Nate into a believer. He knows he can't kill his wife, so he comes up with a scenario to hopefully please The Praesidium and keep his family alive. From there it gets even more complicated, but it's a suspenseful mind-numbing e-ticket to the very ending. Parks once again creates characters that pop off the page and turns an unthinkable plot into a plausible thriller. 


International bestselling author Brad Parks is the only writer to have won the Shamus, Nero, and Lefty Awards, three of American crime fiction’s most prestigious prizes. His novels have been translated into 15 languages and have won critical acclaim across the globe, including stars from every major pre-publication review outlet. A graduate of Dartmouth College, Parks is a former journalist with The Washington Post and The (Newark, N.J.) Star-Ledger. He is now a full-time novelist living in Virginia with his wife and two school-aged children.

www.bradparksbooks.com

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Comments

  1. NancyJuly 27, 2021 at 5:30 AM

    I do read thrillers but I can't remember the title of the last one I have read.

    Nancy
    allibrary )(at) aol (dot) com

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  2. travelerJuly 27, 2021 at 7:09 AM

    Moving Day. Riveting thriller. This book sounds incredible. Very talented author. saubleb(at)gmail(dot)com

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  3. DonnaJuly 27, 2021 at 8:53 AM

    His and Hers by Alice Feeney

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  4. diannekcJuly 27, 2021 at 1:16 PM

    The Good Sister

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  5. KimJuly 27, 2021 at 1:24 PM

    Hi, the latest thriller I read was The Stranger in the Mirror by Liv Constantine.
    k3kdpv at gmail dot com

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  6. taurusJuly 29, 2021 at 12:30 PM

    The Breaker by Nick Petrie

    jtcgc at yahoo dot com

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  7. bn100July 30, 2021 at 4:29 PM

    none yet

    bn100candg at hotmail dot com

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  8. Nancy PJuly 30, 2021 at 6:24 PM

    Behind Closed Doors positive.ideas.4you AT gmail.com

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  9. PhyllisAugust 2, 2021 at 5:58 AM

    I read lots of thrillers and suspense. You Will Remember Me was very good

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  10. JoAugust 2, 2021 at 6:34 AM

    A Different Way to Die
    by Robert Lane johart7@aol.com

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  11. Kayla Book Lover in FloridaAugust 3, 2021 at 10:27 AM

    Local Woman Missing was awesome!
    bookloverfl12 at gmail dot com

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