You’re a patient in the hospital, at the mercy of those taking care of you.
Your nurse walks into the room carrying a syringe, but the medication isn’t meant to help you.
It’s meant to kill you.
You don’t know this, of course, until it’s too late, until you’re slipping into the abyss, unable to call for help.
You sensed there was something odd about this caregiver from the start, and as you sink further and further into the blackness of oblivion, one thought keeps running through your mind: Why?
I liked this book quite a bit. It was pretty short but crammed a lot of action into its pages, and I have to admit that Hardin got me with a cool twist that I didn't really see coming.
I haven't read much of Hardin's catalog, but I will be trying a full length novel of his very soon, probably the first of the Colt series.
Watching the story's 'hero' deteriorate into a psychological basketcase was like watching a train wreck - I couldn't turn away. This short thriller was fast and evenly paced, full of "oh nos" and "watch outs" (if you're a person like me who has to talk to one's book while reading). There is a real hero here, and ultimately an ending that, while not quite happy, ends badly...for the bad guy, at least.