Moon Underfoot

by Bobby Cole, Jeremy Arthur (Read by)

Overview

Eighteen months have passed since Jake and his daughter endured a harrowing ordeal in the Alabama woods. To save his child, Jake killed two men working with notorious drug runner Ethan “Moon Pie” Daniels. Jake’s grateful that they survived, but can’t shake the feeling that the horror isn’t over and that retribution is coming. His actions cost Moon Pie his best friends and nearly two years of business. Now, on a cold, moonless night deep in the heart of a Mississippi swamp, Moon Pie will pit his thirst for vengeance against the strength of Jake’s love for his family.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781491592236
Publisher:	Brilliance Audio
Publication date:	05/05/2015
Series:	A Jake Crosby Thriller , #2
Edition description:	Unabridged
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 6.75(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Bobby Cole is a native of Montgomery, Alabama, and president of Mossy Oak® Biologic®. Additionally, he is an avid wildlife manager, hunter, and active supporter of the Catch-A-Dream™ Foundation. He lives with his wife and daughter in West Point, Mississippi. Bobby is also the author of the novel The Dummy Line.

Editorial Reviews

In Cole’s thoroughly enjoyable second crime novel featuring Mississippi outdoorsman Jake Crosby, quintessential redneck Ethan “Moon Pie” Daniels sets out to murder Crosby and his family as retribution for Crosby’s acts 18 months earlier in 2008’s The Dummy Line. Starting with stalking and arson, Moon Pie soon escalates to insanely horrific acts. Meanwhile, four retirees, three men and one woman, become intertwined with Moon Pie and his dim but decent half-brother, Levi Jenkins, after the four inadvertently steal an extremely large sum of money from nasty drug lords. As the bag of money falls into various hands, the four old people quickly establish themselves as the gang that couldn’t think straight. The rural Mississippi setting lends a pungent, swampy, and malevolent aura to the action. The many good old boys (poachers, game wardens, petty thugs) rise above stereotype. Cole manages to tie up all the loose strands of the complex, deftly handled plot in a highly satisfying way. (Jan.)

Publishers Weekly

Family guy (and experienced hunter) Jake saved his family a few months earlier by killing two men in self defense. Heroic, yes, but one of the surviving bad guys, Moon Pie, escaped the crime scene and has been plotting revenge ever since. At the same time, three seniors living at a local assisted-living residence have formed a Robin Hood-style gang to steal large sums of money and set up a pay-it-forward sort of foundation. And finally, the aforementioned Moon Pie is looking to move up the drug-runner ladder and has set a major transaction in motion. Add to these three plots an abundance of wacky characters with warped mindsets and you have a suspenseful, Southern-style caper. VERDICT As he demonstrated in his debut, The Dummy Line, Cole has a quick-paced, winning style, dexterously juggling multiple points of view. For fans of Carl Hiaasen or Elmore Leonard—mix in a little Ben Rehder for the hunting-obsessed.

Library Journal