The Bottom Line: Voted the Year’s Best Thriller in the 2024 BestThrillers.com Awards.
Patterson’s novel has the audacity to open with a literal “cliffhanger” scene, and thanks to the vivid sensory and dramatic flair on display, it’s a chapter that will be long etched in readers’ memories.
When Army Ranger Garrett Knox left behind his military career to lead wilderness expeditions, he thought he’d escaped the life-threatening missions forever.
But his quiet world in the Montana mountains explodes one evening, forcing him to accept a persistent government agent’s dangerous mission:
Hunt down Knox’s former military buddy accused of treason and the murder of nearly their entire platoon.
Knox’s globe-spanning pursuit of answers soon places him in the crosshairs of a covert operation testing bioweapons on innocent civilians.
As the body count rises, Knox assembles his own skilled team to expose the truth and topple the corrupt power-players behind the deadly conspiracy.
This, the first book in Patterson’s Garret Knox series, is an outstanding pillar to build upon.
