Author: Candice Fox
Publisher: Macmillan-Tor/Forge
Genre: Mystery/Thrillers
Format: Audiobook ARC
Narrator: David de Vries; Lisa Negron
No. of Pages: 327
Date of Publication: March 30, 2021
My Rating: Stars
The Chase is a modern The Fugitive with characters only #1 New York Times and Globe and Mail bestselling author Candice Fox can write.
“Are you listening, Warden?”
“What do you want?”
“I want you to let them out.”
“Which inmates are we talking about?”
“All of them.”
With that, the largest manhunt in United States history is on. In response to a hostage situation, more than 600 inmates from the Pronghorn Correctional Facility, including everyone on Death Row, are released into the Nevada Desert. Criminals considered the worst of the worst, monsters with dark, violent pasts, are getting farther away by the second.
John Kradle, convicted of murdering his wife and son, is one of the escapees. Now, desperate to discover what really happened that night, Kradle must avoid capture and work quickly to prove his innocence as law enforcement closes in on the fugitives.
Death Row Supervisor, and now fugitive-hunter, Celine Osbourne has focused all of her energy on catching Kradle and bringing him back to Death Row. She has very personal reasons for hating him – and she knows exactly where he’s heading...
“Are you listening, Warden?”
“What do you want?”
“I want you to let them out.”
“Which inmates are we talking about?”
“All of them.”
With that, the largest manhunt in United States history is on. In response to a hostage situation, more than 600 inmates from the Pronghorn Correctional Facility, including everyone on Death Row, are released into the Nevada Desert. Criminals considered the worst of the worst, monsters with dark, violent pasts, are getting farther away by the second.
John Kradle, convicted of murdering his wife and son, is one of the escapees. Now, desperate to discover what really happened that night, Kradle must avoid capture and work quickly to prove his innocence as law enforcement closes in on the fugitives.
Death Row Supervisor, and now fugitive-hunter, Celine Osbourne has focused all of her energy on catching Kradle and bringing him back to Death Row. She has very personal reasons for hating him – and she knows exactly where he’s heading...
MY THOUGHTS:
The United States is currently undertaking the most extensive manhunt in its history. This unprecedented situation arose from a hostage situation, resulting in the release of over 600 high-risk and even brutal inmates from a secure prison. Some of these individuals are on death row. The situation was untenable, and now hundreds of dangerous prisoners must be located and returned to custody.
Throughout their escape, their cold-blooded crimes resurface, serving as both reminders of their true nature and the dangerous situations they put others in. It’s a stark display of savagery at its worst.
This latest book by Candice Fox is a high-octane read, one that grabs the reader in its grip without letting go. The Fugitive came to mind more than once as police and agents tried to round up the criminals.
Death Row supervisor Celine Osborne is under immense pressure as she leads a team of investigators in capturing these notorious criminals. She faces dangers she never anticipated, making this book an exhilarating thriller, especially due to the excellent audio narration. I eagerly anticipate the next installment from this talented author.
Many thanks to Macmillan-Tor/Forge and to NetGalley for this ARC for review. This is my honest opinion.
As a cynical and trouble-making teenager, her crime and gothic fiction writing was an escape from the calamity of her home life. She was constantly in trouble for reading Anne Rice in church and scaring her friends with tales from Australia's wealth of true crime writers.
Bankstown born and bred, she failed to conform to military life in a brief stint as an officer in the Royal Australian Navy at age eighteen. At twenty, she turned her hand to academia, and taught high school through two undergraduate and two postgraduate degrees. Candice lectures in writing at the University of Notre Dame, Sydney, while undertaking a PhD in literary censorship and terrorism.
Hades is her first novel, and she is currently working on its sequel.
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