"Hunter Hunted" by Jack Gatland

Detective Inspector Declan Walsh must think his world has turned upside down. That's because it has.

His boss in the cold case unit, DCI Alexander Monroe, has been brutally attacked and left for dead in the office, by someone who’s disguised to look like Walsh and even drive a similar car. And then Kendis Taylor, who was Walsh’s girlfriend when they were teenagers and now a reporter, is murdered while investigating a big story. She was killed right after she’d seen Walsh to tell him about the bigger-than-big story she was working on. 

 

A supposed file is leaked, saying Taylor was a terrorist, and Walsh is suddenly in the crosshairs for being one himself. And now he’s on the run and trying to solve the case at the same time. And time is running out.

 

Jack Gatland

Hunter Hunted is the third DI Declan Walsh novel by British author Jack Gatland. I have to admit I almost stopped reading what it appeared that it was going to be just another political thriller. Fortunately, I read one more chapter, and I was hooked. Seriously hooked. Can’t-put-it-down hooked.

 

Gatland is the pen name for bestselling writer Tony Lee, who’s written comics, graphic novels, audio drama, TV and film series, the BBC and ITV, and a host of publishers. In addition to the Declan Walsh series, he’s also published four novels in the Ellie Reckless series, six in the Tom Marlowe series, and several others.

 

Hunter Hunter is an edge-of-your-seat roller coaster ride and a terrific read. I had to remind myself several times that there are several other books in the series, so I knew DI Walsh was going to survive. Somehow. 

 

Related:

 

Letter from the Dead by Jack Gatland.

 

Murder of Angels by Jack Gatland.

 

Some Monday Readings

 

Photos from the Last Paris Olympics – 100 Years Ago – Olivia Waxman at Time Magazine.

 

Hollywood vs. the Historians: Can we Know the Past? – Jordan Poss at Miller’s Book Review.

 

The Department of Everything: Dispatches from the telephone reference desk – Stephen Akey at The Hedgehog Review. 

 

The Secrets of the Heath – Helen Macdonald at The New Statesman.

 

Gerald of Wales, Chronicler of the Celtic World – Katherine Harvey at Engelberg Ideas.