Joey is a complex guy. On one hand, he's irresistible to young women. He is attractive, for sure. But it's more than that. He's so sincere. And those eyes. It's as if he is looking right into their souls. And then there is the Joey they never wished to meet. The one who coldly and without second thought slices his pearl-handled knife through their throats. To Joey, it's his job. He's first and foremost a thief. But killing them? He's only getting rid of the only witness to his bloody crime. It works for him.
Mason is Joey's worst nightmare. The dad of one of Joey's victims hires the skilled ex-CIA agent to find the sonofabitch and stop him. Permanently. Something about this case, though, unearths a god-awful thing Mason had done years before. It was an act that seemed so righteous to him at the time. Yet, the consequences were so staggering that his mind had suppressed it.
No more. The full extent of what he had done comes flooding back. First into his dreams, but his waking moments soon are grappling with the images, as well. It threatens his sanity. Yet, he presses on.
Then Joey targets a woman who, he tells his only confidant, will be his last victim. Jessica Stone is a beautiful, smart and rich 33-year-old widow from Seattle. Joey figures she can set him up for life. And then, of course, he'll kill her just as he has the others before. But Jessica is not the naive 20-year-old he usually preys on. Things don't go as planned. Not. At. All.
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Tightly written and fast paced, if you're not put off by a dollop of steamy sex and a little bloody violence, then dive into The Next Best Thing.
Joey is a complex guy. On one hand, he's irresistible to young women. He is attractive, for sure. But it's more than that. He's so sincere. And those eyes. It's as if he is looking right into their souls. And then there is the Joey they never wished to meet. The one who coldly and without second thought slices his pearl-handled knife through their throats. To Joey, it's his job. He's first and foremost a thief. But killing them? He's only getting rid of the only witness to his bloody crime. It works for him.
Mason is Joey's worst nightmare. The dad of one of Joey's victims hires the skilled ex-CIA agent to find the sonofabitch and stop him. Permanently. Something about this case, though, unearths a god-awful thing Mason had done years before. It was an act that seemed so righteous to him at the time. Yet, the consequences were so staggering that his mind had suppressed it.
No more. The full extent of what he had done comes flooding back. First into his dreams, but his waking moments soon are grappling with the images, as well. It threatens his sanity. Yet, he presses on.
Then Joey targets a woman who, he tells his only confidant, will be his last victim. Jessica Stone is a beautiful, smart and rich 33-year-old widow from Seattle. Joey figures she can set him up for life. And then, of course, he'll kill her just as he has the others before. But Jessica is not the naive 20-year-old he usually preys on. Things don't go as planned. Not. At. All.
- - - - - - -
Tightly written and fast paced, if you're not put off by a dollop of steamy sex and a little bloody violence, then dive into The Next Best Thing.
The Next Best Thing
The Next Best Thing
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BN ID: | 2940162851325 |
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Publisher: | Wiley Brooks |
Publication date: | 11/11/2020 |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | eBook |
Sales rank: | 114,987 |
File size: | 2 MB |