Too Far Gone

by John Ramsey Miller

Alexa Keen is the best the FBI has to offer, a special agent who can achieve the impossible: finding victims of abduction before they can be killed. Casey LePointe West is heiress to one of the greatest fortunes in America. Now, as Hurricane Katrina roars toward New Orleans, these two women are finding common ground in a city of ghosts and grandeur...Alexa as the FBI’s representative in a case guaranteed to destroy careers, and Casey as a woman whose husband has gone missing—and who herself may be the next victim of a brilliant manipulator’s rage.

From the violent wards of an insane asylum to the primordial Louisiana swamps, Alexa is entering the darkest corners of a deadly mystery, peeling back layers of family secrets, hidden relationships, and a twenty-five-year-old crime. And as a raging hurricane gathers strength, she is plunged into a frantic race against time, in the eye of a storm of violence...and just where a ruthless killer wants her to be.

Genres: Thriller, Crime, Mystery, Fiction

496 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[Carol Aselton · Rating 4 out of 5]

New author to add to my favorites! John Ramsey Miller. I really enjoyed this book. Talk about sitting on the edge of your chair and not wanting to put it down. The action is so well written, and the end just blew me away. Looking forward to picking up another John Ramsey Miller.

[Frederick Tan · Rating 5 out of 5]

An entertaining thriller written with Hurricane Katrina in the background. Alexa Keen a FBI agent was inadvertently drawn into a local NOPD kidnapping case at the behest of the wife of the victim Gary West. Partnering with local homicide detective Michael Manseur they faced complicity right from the beginning. As bodies piled up in the morgue and time is running out as the hurricane barrels in, one complication leads to another. Digging through the family history Alexa was confronted with many skeleton in the LePointe family closet which lead to a shootout in the bayou. But even when the bad guts are supposedly taken down, a final twist in the unbelievable ending in the middle of the storm really bring the roof down in the end.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book and would like to recommend Miller ad a master storyteller that really surprises me.

[Subhajit Das · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was expecting a slightly better plot with several compact twists in the story line. Though I won't say that I am disappointed, but it tightness of the content was lacking while developing the story. Rather, I should say, the portrayal of the scenes could have been more captivating. Liked the book overall. Recommendable as an one time read. Thank you.

[Lisa Johnston · Rating 5 out of 5]

never lost momentum in all 400 plus pages. Great story telling

[Bob · Rating 4 out of 5]

An FBI agent in New Orleans for a conference when she gets caught up in a missing persons case when it looks like a kidnapping. The missing person is married to a wealthy daughter of a prominent citizen who is used to having his way and throwing is weight around which affects the case. Dealing with “mental cases”, the swamps and bayous and local characters as well as the fast approaching Katrina gives her plenty to handle and the ending is quite a twist when all is revealed.

[Dee · Rating 2 out of 5]

A familiar tale of how money and power corrupt.
The storyline was a good one, but it was the writing style I didn't enjoy.
Miller would take you through scenes twice--once with the cops/FBI and once with the perp. Boring!

Everything that happened seemed to be spoon-fed to the reader.

I would like to read more about the development of the FBI agent, Alexa. In this book she was rather green in the field--shutting her eyes when she fired at the perp--WHAT THE HECK?

[Bettynz (Larraine) · Rating 5 out of 5]

Totally excellent and unputdownable. I will certainly be looking for more from this author. Picked up at random in a library search a few weeks back for fiction based in New Orleans, and an excellent find. Some good suspense, set against the background of the impending Katrina.

[Cherie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a great thriller taking place during the Katrina Hurricane in New Orleans. Alexa Keen is a special agent with the FBI who is searching for a abducted husband of a wealth heiress before he is killed and before Katrina hits. Great setting and wonderful characters.

[Robin · Rating 2 out of 5]

Was going to be a 3 until the ending. There were simply too many added twists for the book to read in a coherent fashion, in my opinion.