Nate Overbay, a former soldier suffering from PTSD and ALS, goes to an eleventh-floor bank and climbs out the bathroom window onto the ledge, ready to end it all. But as he’s steeling himself to jump, a crew of gunmen bursts into the bank and begins viciously shooting employees and customers. With nothing to lose, Nate climbs back inside, confronts the robbers, and with his military training, starts taking them out, one by one. The last man standing leaves Nate with a cryptic warning: “He will make you pay in ways you can’t imagine.”
Soon enough, Nate learns what this means. He is kidnapped by Pavlo, a savage Ukrainian mobster and mastermind of the failed heist. Now blocked from getting into the bank vault to retrieve the critical item inside, Pavlo gives Nate a horrifying ultimatum: Either break in and acquire the item or watch Pavlo slowly kill the people Nate loves most - his estranged wife, Janie, and his teenaged daughter, Cielle. Nate lost them both when he came back from Iraq broken and confused. Now he’s got one chance to protect the people he loves, even if it’s the last thing he is able to do.
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"I often check the last pages of a book ahead of time, just to make sure the character I have come to love survives. Also, that peek slows me down enough to enjoy the story with more attention to the skill of the author as he/she unfolds it. This book, however, already set me up for the loss of the main guy, and an appealing person he was. His death was already ordained, if not by himself, by his disease. And yet, it could not have been a more compelling story, impossible to put down, and an ending that was totally satisfying and surprising even knowing the fate of the hero. He was a heartwarming, very human hero too."
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Chelyse (4 out of 5 stars)