Book Review: Lake Country by Sean Doolittle

Lake Country by Sean Doolittle is a thriller featuring an ex-soldier out for revenge (available July 31, 2012).

 



Five years ago, successful architect Wade Benson killed a young
woman when he fell asleep at the wheel. His punishment: two days in jail
for every year of his probation. But for one friend of the victim’s
family—an ex-marine named Darryl Potter—this punishment isn’t enough.
Potter sets out to even the score by kidnapping Benson’s twenty-year-old
daughter. It’s a bad, bad plan, and only Mike Barlowe, Potter’s former
combat buddy, knows how to stop it. With a beautiful news reporter, the
cops, and a bounty hunter on Potter’s tail, Barlowe races to head off
his troubled friend before innocent people get hurt. The hunters and the
hunted plunge north into Minnesota’s Lake Country, each with their own
ambitions and demons, each headed for a violent collision—and for one horrifying moment of life or death.





What I mostly liked about this book, I must admit, is its size. What do
I mean by that? I mean that the author did a great job working on the
economy of the novel. There’s not a single word out of place here, there
are not too many subplots to make it a doorstopper, and thus less
enjoyable, and there are no wild stretches of the imagination in order
to surprise the reader. All Sean Doolittle seems to want to do is tell a story, and that he does well.



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