This is the first Jason Wade book. I'll admit to being surprised it's a series based on Wade. He was pretty decent but he didn't feel like the hero of a series. I'll read the next few and see how he grows up. Either way, this is a decent standalone thriller. Extremely creepy and weird, with such an odd climax.
Wade is an intern at a Seattle paper. All of the interns are competing for a coveted job, and Jason really doesn't stand much of a chance. He doesn't have the background or pull that the other interns have. He has a history of a broken home and no where to go except for a brewery factory with his dad. Wade is initially on the crime beat and gets a tip about an abandoned car with a possible missing woman, Karen Harding. It's a good story and gets a good reaction from the editor.
We follow Harding along her car trip to get to her sister's but she ends up with a broken down car. A reverend in an RV (all signs point to NO!!!) comes to her rescue, but ends up abducting her.
We get really gruesome, really fast from here on out. The author brings in medieval torture techniques that really prove how horrible people were back in the day. We have crazy religious guys and Wade, out there still trying to get that permanent job.
The odd part, I thought, was how Wade stepped in and the ultimate climax of the mystery. I guess every day Joes can do what he did but it seemed pretty convenient. Still a really good mystery.
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