The Hunted [Audio CD]

Wayne Barcomb (Author)

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• ASIN: B001TQLZLW
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars refreshing police procedural, April 17, 2009

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Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Hunted: A Thriller (Hardcover)

The child witnessed the murder. She testified in court explaining what she saw that she knows will haunt her forever. The killer is convicted and sent to prison.

Eighteen years later, New York homicide detective Frank Russo is the lead investigator into the homicides of several people. His inquiry seems to go nowhere though he believes a serial killer is the culprit. Frank soon learns that a convicted murderer sentenced eighteen years ago was recently paroled. He begins to change his theory re the current killings and wonders if that freed convict is on a rampage leading him to the person who sent him to prison.

Frank is a fabulous cop struggling in his failed personal life as much as he struggles with a case that is going nowhere. In many ways the deranged killer steals the show from Frank as the audience sees first hand how he was an abuse victim and his efforts to not give in to the obsession to kill again. As Frank follows the few clues, he remains clueless to the identity of the culprit who lives a normal middle class life even as his urging is to hunt down the cop chasing him. Though serial killer investigative thrillers have saturated the market, Wayne Barcomb's fine tale is a refreshing police procedural mostly because of the hunter and the HUNTED.

Harriet Klausner

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Hunted hunts the hunted hunts the hunted..., June 7, 2010

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W. Smith "4everSLAUGHTERED" (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Hunted: A Thriller (Hardcover)

I was amazed by this thriller. Wayne Barcombe is very clever. I was totally thrown for a loop. The ending is a jaw dropper! I actually had to go back and re-read certain scenes to figure out what I missed. The clues along the way are very subtile. This is why this book is so enjoyable as a thriller. This is a story about a serial killer loose in New York City and a young multi-generational heartbroken cop is under pressure to hunt down the killer and solve the hideous crimes. In addition to the cops, there is another hunter hunting the elusive killer. There are a few scenes in the book that I found hard to take as a female and as a human being, but it is a cruel world and Barcombe doesn't shelter his readers from such real horrors. Reminiscent of John Lutz's' Frank Quinn Series.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Average Story That Redeems Itself Somewhat With a Great Ending!, September 29, 2009

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James N Simpson (Gold Coast, QLD Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Hunted: A Thriller (Hardcover)

The Hunted is nothing special, just another police procedure, serial killer type read. Wayne Barcomb has created an interesting female serial killer, although we could have done with a bit more murder scene action, especially after the first murder rather than just a new chapter with Detective Frank Russo receiving a call to attend another scene after we left the killer and victim still alive.

The Hunted also drags on at times, as we get side tracked into Frank Russo's love and personal life, boredom sets in and the temptation to start skimming starts to form in the mind. Having read those scenes without skimming is something I now regret as nothing interesting ever happened. Chapters in the beginning are written in the style of having cliff hangers at each's end and each chapter beginning introducing a new character meaning you're not quite sure if you're revisiting a character you've already read, or have a brand new one coming into play. Plus with the father at the start of the book who also is released from jail later on, having a girl's name with Gale (he has a first too - Paul but is always referred to as Gale) only adds to the confusion.

The only thing that lifts this story to an average overall rating is the great surprise ending. Just when you think you know what's going on you realise you haven't got a clue. A brilliant ending though only can lift the book so much, especially when you consider some readers may well have stopped reading earlier on.

Basic plot of the Hunted is a young girl watches her abusive father torture and kill her mother. He feeds her a story to tell the police, but she bravely tells them the truth sending him to jail. After changing her name and now a beautiful woman, she has relocated to New York. After turning the tables on a would be rapist she learns the therapeutic benefits taking out these predators has on her every day well being. As homicide detective Frank Russo takes on these cases his personal life may well bring him closer to the killer than his detective skills ever will!