Killer Choice
by Tom Hunt
Published: January 30, 2018
Publisher: Berkley Books
Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Crime
Blurb:
The electrifying debut thriller that asks the question: To save the one you love, is there any price you wouldn’t pay?
His wife is sick.
He needs $200,000 to save her.
A mysterious man offers to give him the money with just one catch: He has to murder someone to get it.
Gary Foster’s life is finally heading in the right direction. After years of trying, his wife, Beth, is pregnant, and he recently opened a business with his brother. But one phone call changes everything....
After collapsing suddenly, Beth has been rushed to the hospital. Tests reveal a devastating diagnosis: an inoperable brain tumor. Their only hope is an expensive experimental treatment available abroad, with a cost that’s out of their reach. And Beth’s time is running out....
Then a strange man approaches Gary and offers the money he needs, on one condition: that he kill someone, no questions asked. End one life to save another.
In this nail-biting debut novel of domestic suspense, one man makes a choice that forces him to confront the darkest reaches of his soul and betray those closest to him. As he’s swept up in a nightmare of escalating violence, he must question his own morality—and determine just how far he’s willing to go to save the woman he loves.
My Review:
A young woman collapses one day and is taken to the hospital and finds out that she has a brain tumor. She could have a few weeks, a few months who knows. The young woman Beth Foster is pregnant with her first child. Beth and her husband Gary have been trying for years to have a baby and just when it happens they are bombarded with this devastating news.
They are told that the brain tumor is inoperable and that it is a very progressive type of cancer. But they are given some good news. There is a trial happening in Germany that could possibly save Beth’s life. The only problem is that it will cost $200,000. How on earth could they possibly come up with $200,000? How far would a man go to save the one he loves?
Gary is contacted by a man that says he would like to give him the two hundred thousand dollars for his wife’s treatment. But there is one little catch. Gary has to kill someone to get it. Gary is given a few days to think about what he is going to do. Gary is not a killer and has no idea what he will do. Does he end one life to save another? Gary does some research on the guy that he is supposed to kill for the money and finds some news articles about some bad things he has done but has never been convicted of any crime. What should he do? Can he kill a bad person to save a good person?
Killer Choice is a very fast read one in which I couldn’t put down. I went to bed hoping to read only a little bit because I had to get up early the next morning but alas that did not happen before I knew it a few hours had gone by and I was almost through with the book. As it was getting very late by then I had to reluctantly, of course, lay the book down and finish it the next morning.
I can’t believe that this is the first book that the author has written. The story drifted along very smoothly and fast. Killer Choice will stay with me for a long time after having read the last page. The characters jump out at you filling you with all their sorrow and pain. You just wanted so bad to reach into the book and help them any way you could. Part of me was rooting for Gary the whole way and part of me was saying no way dude don’t do it. I don’t know how anyone could truly say what they would do in Gary’s place unless they have literally walked in his shows and are faced with the same circumstances. And even then you can never know exactly how a person feels because we all react and feel differently about things. As I have always said what is a big deal to someone else may not be a big deal to me but that doesn’t mean I treat it as it is nothing.
I would like to suggest Killer Choice to anyone who loves a good mystery and a very fast read; a story that will jump off the page at you and have you racing to end to find out what is happening next.
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