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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.