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    The Prison Guard's Son

    By Trace Conger

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    Search for monsters and long enough and you might become one.

    Thirty years ago Jacob Vance and Raymond Turner committed a gruesome crime that shocked a small West Virginia town. Only nine years old themselves, they kidnapped and murdered four-year-old Josh Baker.

    The two boys were quickly arrested, tried and convicted, but were released after serving only eight years in a juvenile detention facility. Because of the heinousness of their crime and the town's thirst for retribution, the government gave Vance and Turner new identities and relocated them to parts unknown.

    Now, the victim's father has hired Finn Harding to find his son's killers so he can levy the justice that was denied so long ago. Along the way, Finn clashes with a tenacious US Marshal determined to protect the killers' new identities and crosses paths with an infamous triggerman hired to do what the courts didn't.

    What begins as a typical job for Finn quickly spirals into a moral struggle between revenge and forgiveness as he learns details about the lives Vance and Turner have been living.

    As he fights with his conscience, Finn learns that monsters truly exist, you can't hide from your past, and some cases should stay buried.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrace Conger
    Release dateSep 9, 2016
    ISBN9780996826730

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    • 5/5
      A former PI is hired by a devastated father to find the new identities of the murderers of his five-year-old son. The readers follow the search in the mind of the investigator who spells out his thoughts offering quite interesting information on the witness protection system in the USA. At the same time, the readers are hit with realizations about how easily your personal information can be retrieved by anyone, how the authorities operate and how people can be handled like pawns by someone with the know-how.A fast and exciting read which I wholeheartedly recommend.
    • 5/5
      Imagine losing your four year old child to sadistic murderers. Would you want revenge? Would you want it even if the murderers were only five years older than the child you lost? How long would you be willing to wait to get that revenge and how would you go about achieving it? That is what this book is about…and monsters…monsters that are pure evil. Finn is asked to find two people and as they have gone WAY underground it is no easy task. The story of his search is interesting as are the people he encounters while he is looking. He wants to look both men in the eye and assess who they are three decades after they admitted to killing Josh Baker. He does this, uncovers a child pornography ring, encounters an alpha female working for WITSEC, meets up with some of the people that he worked with in the first two books and also tries to decide what is best for himself and his family as he moves forward after this case. All of it makes a thrilling read that had me turning pages from beginning to end. I was hooked on the Mr. Finn books from the very first one I read and was thrilled when the author asked if I would be willing to read and review his second and third books in the series. I hope there will be more Mr. Finn books in the future because I am not finished with Finn, his family or the people he works with and hope the author isn’t either. Thank you to the author for the copy of this book given in exchange for my honest review.
    • 3/5
      While trace Conger is a good author who adequately develops characters, and keeps a story moving, I was somewhat sickened by the detailed descriptions of the child exploitation scenes. I think that the story would have been just as powerful without the detailed description of the 5-year-old boy's body or the 5-year-old girl’s facial expression as she was being sexually exploited by a child porn ring. I think that simple statements indicating that a 5-year-old boy was murdered and that a 5-year-old girl was sexually violated, in manner similar to Baldacci’s murder descriptions for such acts, would have been sufficient. Despite my personal distaste for the referenced scenes, I couldn't put the book down. Toward the end, it became obvious that the book was about to end with the main character settling down to a somewhat normal life when Conger through and interesting twist that undermined the carefully arrived at premise that the reader had assumed as to who the perpetrator of these crimes was. If you like murder mysteries with plenty of action, you’ll like this book.
    • 5/5
      At what length, would you go to for justice? I don’t know how I would answer that question. I cannot imagine the pain of losing a child in the horrible way that Mr. Baker lost his young son. And then the injustice of having the government protect the killers after their short incarceration. He has a well thought out plan for his own form of justice. He hired Mr. Finn to find the two killers who now have new identities. Mr. Finn uses his skills and resources to find those that can’t be found and, thus, clashing with the US Marshal. This simple case quickly becomes a lot more complicated. I was provided a copy of this book from LibraryThing in exchange for my honest review.