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Publisher:
Jove |
Release
Date: October 2003 |
ISBN:
0515135291 |
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Format
Reviewed: Paperback |
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Genre:
Mystery/Thriller |
Reviewed:
2004 |
Reviewer:
Dennis Collins |
Reviewer
Notes: Reviewer Dennis Collins is the author of "The
Unreal McCoy" |
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Unnatural
Instinct
By Robert W. Walker
Judge
Maureen DeCampe had sentenced a man to die in the electric chair.
The sentence has been carried out and now Judge DeCampe has been
kidnapped, drugged, stripped naked and finds herself and lashed
with rawhide and duct tape to the decaying body of the executed
man. The FBI hands the case to Jessica Coran and she has precious
little time to locate and rescue the judge from her horrible fate.
By
nature of their work, judges accumulate enemies over the years.
Where to start? Judge DeCampe is currently an appellate judge in
Washington, DC, but her career had seen other venues, as well. The
investigation soon focuses on the judge’s time spent in Texas.
Jessica Coran enlists the help of Detective Lucas Stonecoat of Houston
to help her identify any likely suspects in the Lone Star state.
Soon, they zero in on the father of Jimmy Lee Purdy, a killer who
was executed three days prior to the judge’s abduction.
Pinning
down a likely location for the victim is a monumental task. Jimmy
Lee Purdy’s father lived on the family farm in Iowa, Jimmy
had been electrocuted in Texas, and the judge had been abducted
in Washington. Jessica and her team put together an intense investigation
that moves at extremely high speed, yet covers every scenario. They
must find the judge before the rotting of the corpse that she’s
fused to spreads to her body and eats her alive.
Robert
Walker pulls no punches in this graphic and intense book. It’s
a well-written story that is definitely not for the faint of heart,
the kind of thriller that grabs the reader in a death grip.
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