Judgement and Wrath (Joe Hunter) - Hardcover

Matt Hilton

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0340978244 ISBN 13: 9780340978245

Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton, 2009

Synopsis

After barely escaping with his life while trying to save his half brother from a deranged killer, former-military-operative-turned-problem-solver Joe Hunter has a new life—and hopefully a quieter one—in Florida. But he's soon approached by a man who wants Hunter to bring his daughter, Marianne, home. He claims that her boyfriend, millionaire Bradley Jorgenson, is a twisted, abusive man, and he hints that Hunter should use whatever force is necessary to rescue the girl. The problem is, when Hunter finds the couple, Marianne appears happy, and Hunter can find no signs that Jorgenson has hurt her.

Things get even more complicated when a crafty contract killer by the name of Dantalion shows up at Jorgenson's exclusive island residence with his sights set on Jorgenson and Marianne. Dantalion has an agenda of his own, and nobody is going to stand in his way. Not even Joe Hunter.

When Hunter steps in and saves the couple, what started as a simple matter of snatch-and-grab turns into a deadly game of cat-and-mouse that sets the hunter and the hunted on a grueling chase deep within the Florida swamplands.

In this pulse-pounding follow-up to Dead Men's Dust, the smashing debut that introduced Joe Hunter, Matt Hilton delivers an explosive white-knuckled thrill ride that will have readers gasping for breath all the way to the electrifying conclusion.

About this title

About the Author:

is an expert in kempo jujitsu and holds the rank of fourth dan. He founded and taught at the respected Bushidokan Dojo, and he has worked in private security and for the Cumbria police department. Hilton is married and lives in England.

From Booklist:

Joe Hunter, one-time scourge of terrorists turned freelance knight errant, accepts what appears to be a simple mission: rescue young Marianne Dean from Bradley Jorgenson, her abusive lover, who is heir to a pharmaceutical fortune. Hunter goes to Miami to do just that and finds that the young couple is the target of a deranged assassin who fancies himself Dantalion, an angel cast out of heaven and a “Great Duke of Hell.” Hunter thwarts Dantalion’s first two attempts, setting up a mano-a-mano confrontation with the wraithlike killer in the swamps near Lake Okeechobee. Although Hilton’s gun battles, car chases, and explosions are reliably entertaining, his greatest talent lies in creating over-the-top villains. Dantalion is as bizarre and monomaniacal as Tubal Cain, the serial killer from Dead Men’s Dust(2009) whose goal was to eclipse Ted Bundy as America’s worst. Plotting and dialogue remain works in progress, but if it’s straight-shooting machismo readers are after, Hilton and Joe Hunter fill the bill. --Thomas Gaughan

About this edition

• Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0340978244
• ISBN 13: 9780340978245
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 310