Genre: Mystery / Suspense
Book Type: Physical
Author: Lisa Scottoline
Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini
Pages / Length: 400 pages / 10 hours and 15 minutes
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons (March 29, 2022) / Penguin Audio
Book Description:
Your family has been attacked, never again to be the same.
Now you have to choose between law…and justice.
Jason Bennett is a suburban dad who owns a court-reporting business, but one night, his life takes a horrific turn. He is driving his family home after his daughter’s field hockey game when a pickup truck begins tailgating them, on a dark stretch of road. Suddenly two men jump from the pickup and pull guns on Jason, demanding the car. A horrific flash of violence changes his life forever.
Later that awful night, Jason and his family receive a visit from the FBI. The agents tell them that the carjackers were members of a dangerous drug-trafficking organization—and now Jason and his family are in their crosshairs.
The agents advise the Bennetts to enter the witness protection program right away, and they have no choice but to agree. But WITSEC was designed to protect criminal informants, not law-abiding families. Taken from all they know, trapped in an unfamiliar life, the Bennetts begin to fall apart at the seams. Then Jason learns a shocking truth and realizes that he has to take matters into his own hands.
Sometimes justice is a one-man show.
Thoughts: This book started out very intense. I loved the speed of this book and continuous page flipping. I couldn't put it down and needed to keep reading because my heart was racing and I needed to know what actually DID happen to the Bennetts.
I loved the twists and surprises that happened in the book. I thought they were well done although towards the end, there was a little bit of unbelievability for me. It tackled family, drugs, deception, and a parent's love and the lengths a father will go to to avenge his daughter's murder. This was another great suspense from Scottoline. She never disappoints and this was a great read.
Favorite Quotes:
🚙 Marriage was reading each other's minds, but knowing what had to remain unsaid. (page 102)
🚙 "Whenever you're taking a portrait of someone, you and your subject are in the present, but if you're any good, you can see their past, and even their future." (page 167)
🚙 I watched my smile fade. I couldn't deny the facts, literally staring me int he face. I had made safe choices, one after the other, on the belief they would protect me and my family. [...] Playing it safe hadn't kept them safe.
I remembered way back when, I used to wonder why my father idolized Milton Hershey, but never aspired to be him. [...] He had stayed in his comfort zone, and so had I. I didn't know if we were afraid of failing, or of succeeding.
[...]
I was becoming someone else. Maybe who I should have been, all along.
Not my father.
Myself.
I looked at my reflection with new eyes.
No more playing it safe. (page 224)
🚙 "You make it sound like a corporation."
"It's a business like any other."
"It sells death and crime."
"Cigarette companies sell death. Drug companies sell rehab." (page 277)
🚙 "'Decide what you want and do what gets it'... Nothing else matters. No rules, no laws. Not what you should want. Not being right. Not your pride." (page 344)
🚙 What I believed in was truth, justice, and love. Sometimes I thought those were three different words for the same feeling. (page 387)
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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