End Game

Langthorne Series, Book 4

By: Charlie Gallagher

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson

Detective George Elms is out of prison, and the police force that put him there is in chaos. Now they want him back to lead the hunt for vicious cop killer Kane Forley. Only George can put together a team that will bring this criminal to justice. Are his superiors using George as bait? They have their own very dark secrets to hide.

But this is personal, and things spin out of control fast. Soon George will face one last race against time to save everyone who is close to him. Who can he trust to help him?

©2017 Charlie Gallagher (P)2018 Tantor

Why 4 stars for story

I think this series is top notch and reader Gildart Jackson is one of the best. However, this book frustrated me when characters went in directions that weren’t logical to me. I found myself repeating “Really??” But Mr Gallagher IS the successful author, so who am I to criticize? I still look forward to the next book.

A bit contrived

Although this is the final in the series, I felt it could have been concluded by the end of Book 3. The antagonist became overdrawn to the point of annoying, rather than terrifying, and George's story became unbelievable. Also, I'm not entirely innocent of foul language usage myself, but the language used in the dialogue was overly profane. I couldn't listen to this anywhere that someone might overhear.

I guess the moral of the story is.

We can all be driven to murder. Honestly, I don't get that George doesn't ask for help. He turns into an ass and well, I now find the series frustrating. Maybe it's excellent writing, but I find myself tired. Tired of the hostage situation to have innocents used in rather unbelievable situations and killed to this degree. It's too much. I'm tired of the scenarios

Good guys suffer too much

At some point before the end, the tide has to turn in favour of the good guys. That never happened in these first 4 books