Location : Cleveland, OH
Nick Horrigan snaps awake at 2:18AM. This isn't the first time he has awoken at that specific instant in the past 17 years. This time, however, police sirens keep him awake. He walks out onto his balcony and sees that the flashing lights seem to be congregating around his apartment building. Then he notices a black rope dangling from the roof, ending on his balcony floor. Moments later, he is lying on his back, looking up at the camouflaged faces of a SWAT team. Within minutes, he is a Black Hawk helicopter, racing to a nuclear power plant, where a terrorist, threatening to blow it up, has demanded that the only person with whom he will talk is Nick. The problem is that Nick has no idea who this person is nor the reason he is being summoned. This starts in motion a chain of events where Nick is both the hero and the hunted, where he relives the reason he awakes at 2:18AM, and faces his paranoia and his past.
I was provided an advanced readers' edition of this book, Trust No One, having never read any previous novels from Gregg Hurwitz. I was pleasantly surprised to see that both Lee Child and Harlan Coben provided quotes, praising the book. But the kicker happened when I read the Acknowledgements - Joseph Finder (another of my favorite authors - Child and Coben are two others) provided "key guidance" to Hurwitz. Much like Finder, Coben, and Child, Hurwitz has written a novel that is difficult to put down once you start. Told in the first person, with many flashbacks to add substance to Nick's character, Hurwitz keeps the action and suspense levels high until the final few chapters. This is a thoroughly enjoyable novel.
It isn't until you finish the book that you begin to wonder about the lessons that Nick learned while living in a house with a Secret Service agent and then, later, with an extremely paranoid person in Alaska. Both of those individuals had a major impact on his life, and yet, as you remember key elements of the novel, you can't help but wonder if Nick elected to ignore their guidance at inopportune times. Further, the title is a repeated mantra throughout the book. However, Nick seems to ignore that at times, too.
Regardless, this is a book that is very difficult to put down. Fast paced, great plot, and several really nice twists, it will hold your attention and make you go searching for earlier novels by Hurwitz.
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