Today I'm helping to close off the blog tour for Saint Justice, the first in the Christopher Wren series, by Mike Grist. It's a brutal, action packed, adrenaline ride! My thanks to Emma Welton at damppebbles blog tours for the invitation and to the author for my review copy.
The Blurb:
Hundreds of human cages hidden in the desert. One man with nothing to lose.
Christopher Wren pulls off I-70 after three weeks on the road and walks into a biker bar in Price, Utah. An arbitrary decision he's about to regret.
The bikers attack Wren, leave him for dead and steal his truck.
Now he's going to get it back.
From a secure warehouse in the desert. Ringed with fences. Filled with human cages.
As Wren digs deeper, a dark national conspiracy unravels and the body count mounts, but one thing is for sure.
They picked the wrong guy to teach a lesson.
Saint Justice was published in paperback, audio and digital formats on 10th June 2019.
Purchase Links:
Amazon UK
Amazon US
Audible
My Review:
The Author:
When ex-CIA rogue Christopher Wren goes to steal back his truck from a biker gang, he finds more than he bargained for. In the huge warehouse he finds row upon row of empty cages, each one just big enough to hold a person. Then he discovers that homeless people are going missing from the streets of Chicago. And that is just the beginning... He soon has to call on both his own Foundation and his ex-employers.
I am a little conflicted about Wren but intrigued at the same time. He devotes his life to destroying cults and gangs but has his own Foundation, which seems to be a cross between the AA and a cult itself. The members are all ex criminals and the Foundation generally keeps them on the straight and narrow but Wren still calls on themto break the law from time to time in order to help him out. But it is always for the greater good. Wren is a sad man, haunted by demons and we learn a little bit about those as the book progresses. And they are not pretty.
This is not always an easy read. There are some brutal moments and some really shocking ones too. There is plenty of violence and plenty of bloodshed. Grist does not pull any punches with his writing. But it is an exciting, page turning thriller as Wren uncovers more and more and races to destroy the evil he's up against. The denouement is exciting, violent and bloody, and the reveal shocking. This was a pulse quickening read from beginning to end and I look forward to finding out more about Wren in future books.
The Author:
Mike Grist is the British/American author of the Christopher Wren thriller series. For 11 years Mike lived in Tokyo, Japan, exploring and photographing the dark side of the city and the country: gangs, cults and abandoned places. Now he writes from London, UK, about rogue DELTA operator Christopher Wren - an anti-hero vigilante who uses his off-book team of ex-cons to bring brutal payback for dark crimes.
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