Firstly, a trigger warning is required for this book - though the synopsis is pretty though it does seem apt.

It's like an accident on the side of the road .... you can't help but look as you pass by. I enjoyed this on the whole but did lose the main threads of the story sometimes.

I found this book very unbelievable. Some parts of the book was far fetched. Other than those areas, it was an ok read. Thanks to Netgalley, the author and the publisher for the arc of this book in return for my honest review. Receiving the book in this manner had no bearing on this review.

Thankyou to NetGalley, BooksGoSocial and the author, Joseph Lewis, for the opportunity to read a digital copy of Caught In A Web in exchange for an honest and unbiased opinion.
I thought this book provided a good, though disturbing, read. The storyline was well thought out and written with well developed characters. 3.5 stars.
Worth a read.

Disturbing and uncomfortable book describing, at length the impact of life involving heroin and fentanyl..

For instance, High School children have overdosed and been found dead and end up thrown to the side of the road. So, we end up with drug warfare and how three detectives are charged with rooting out the drug ring, the drug lords, and the consequences.

Not for me, but well written. Let's hope UK streets do not end up like this!

This is the most depraved and disturbing book i have ever read.

It is in my opinion a bad book, portly constructed, unbelievable in content and parts of it were simply strange.
We start with a introduction to so many characters you need pen and paper to try and work out who is who. They all live together all call the same two people mother and father but they are not necessarily related. they all sleep together, kiss and touch in a most unappealing way. They all have a past that the readers introduced to piecemeal. It makes the first third of the book feel like the second in a series without having had the benefit of reading the first.

George "speaks" to his dead Grandfather - at the ripe old age of around 15 he has killed several people and will in the course of the book kill more whilst the police look on leaving him to do their work.
Mixed into all this is a separate story line about deaths relating to drugs.

The whole is unbelievable, fragmented and frankly disturbing.
As I had received a copy from net galley I struggled woman fully to get through this book but i won't be looking for any more from this author

this book is a bit hard to read because of the context. Drugs, gangs, death the whole works is in this book. It is there are way too many people in this book. I kind of got lost lost.

Loved the quality and depth of the characters. Found myself thinking of them long after finishing the book. Writing it tight, action scenes tense. A superb page-turner. I like this author.

It IS a story, but filled with a lot of detours and nonsense. Too much killing and too strange setting.

I loved this book, even though it was uncomfortable at times. This is very well written with many characters. A lot of in-depth history of characters. Very heartbreaking at times with the graphic killing content. If you can't take bloody situations, you may not want to read this. Drugs are a bad scene, in this book it is mostly about middle and high school kids getting caught up with drugs and bullies and a lot of death. I would recommend this book, it does have a great story line. The end threw me off cause I had no idea who was at the root of all this turmoil. Great Job by the Author.


Thank you Net Gallery and BooksGoSocial for the opportunity to review.


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Reading like a news item than a novel a hard hitting of two cops/child overdoses, and the hidden or ignored enemy that is MS-13. Prepare to enjoy and be EDUCATED of what is living in our neighborhoods.

This was a really unique story! It was so ambitious and involved that I felt it could have been broken into 3 separate novels. There was a lot of back story to the characters and it was a bit difficult to keep them straight. The crime/drug portion of the story was confusing and the detectives and police officers were harder to relate with. The family dynamics were interesting and definitely held my attention. There is a lot of violence and discussion of prior sexual assaults so I'd add a trigger warning for sensitive readers. That was a crucial piece to the overall plot so it was necessary to explain the histories.

Thanks to Net Galley and publishers for an advanced reader's copy of this story in exchange for my honest review.

caught in a web by Joseph Lewis.
The bodies of high school and middle school kids are found dead from an overdose of heroin and fentanyl. The drug trade along the I-94 and I-43 corridors and the Milwaukee Metro area is controlled by MS-13, a violent gang originating from El Salvador. Ricardo Fuentes is sent from Chicago to Waukesha to find out who is cutting in on their business, shut it down and teach them a lesson. But he has an ulterior motive: find and kill a fifteen-year-old boy, George Tokay, who had killed his cousin the previous summer.
a very good read. I liked the story. I liked the ending too. 4*.