Bob
Burke heads a telecommunications company. He’s flying back to his home base of
Chicago from Washington, D.C., where he learned that the Defense Department is
chucking his company’s bid for a major work program in favor of a lesser known
company. It could mean layoffs. He’s not in the best of moods, and trying to
drown his problems with Scotch. As the plane comes in low for landing, he looks
down from his window, and sees a man strangling a woman on a rooftop.
Bob
Burke’s life is about to turn upside down.
That’s
how Burke’s War by William Brown begins, and it
never lets up. The flight attendant, the airport police and the local police
all disbelieve his story. But Burke knows what he saw, and he’s rather
relentless in pursuing what he believes was a murder.
Burke,
a former special forces soldier in Afghanistan and Iraq, finds himself up
against an estranged wife who’s determined to get control of the business; the
head of a pharmaceutical company with a penchant for violent rape; the
pharmaceutical company’s security; and part of the Chicago Mafia. People begin
to die, including some close to Burke.
Burke
declares war. Shootings and violence pile up.
If
you like action and suspense, William Brown packs it into his stories. The
reader hands on as events propel the narrative forward.
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Do
I believe things like this could have in suburban America? No. Did that stop me
from enjoying this story? Also no.
Brown
is a storyteller. From the very beginning, the reader is wrapped into this
unlikely of heroes, a young CEO trying to save his company. We gradually learn
there’s more to this CEO than meets the eye. So do the bad guys. And there are a lot of bad guys.
Burke’s War is described as
the first in a series. I can’t wait to see what the “telephone guy” gets up to
next.
Related - My reviews of Brown’s previous
books:
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