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Todd A. Stone has a way of putting the reader inside Jonathan Kragg's mind to deduce what other detectives have overlooked. John doesn't just intuit what the criminals might think; he "becomes" them. This author also has the reporter's gimmick for misdirection like Courtney E. Michel, who names every new character in the storyline so that to list them all you would wind up with a never ending list of prospective perpetrators. Very clever, these writers.

If you like a masculine perspective in story telling, this book is for you. I really liked this author's voice--the action, the mind challenge, and the hero's sensitivities. This is definitely a man's book… and well, it's also for women who love men like Jonathan Kragg.

ADMS' Security Director, Jonathan Kragg is a two-sided coin. He is a clever and meticulously observant Security Director, yet vulnerable to wartime flashbacks. As an ex-Military Special Forces and FBI trained agent he listens to the Zen flow of water within his own stream of consciousness. Even medically retired from the forces, he is called upon by the police to solve a grizzly murder. In spite of his fragile grip on reality between his sense of Zen-rain and his analytical deductions, it is his expertise to assemble the puzzle pieces to solve the crime. Discounting all efforts to manipulate his logic he and his partner, Detective Dubrowski, follow the killer's trail to its conclusion… disregarding the dangers to himself, the dog that trusts him without question, and his dream of someday having a wife and family who can accept him for who he is.

Sept. 15, 2006