What an amazing well-written book.

Hawke's Target had me hooked from the very beginning. I quite enjoyed the storyline and the well-crafted characters. It felt as if I was part of the story.

Reavis Wortham has been a long time go to read for Texas chaos. Hawkers Target does not disappoint. Fun thrill read.

This is the first time I have read this author and I have found this book to be a very good read. Hawke is a Texas Ranger who after the story gets going is given the assignment of tracking a person who is killing men who have gotten off of a crime because of a technicality or is on parole. Alonzo hunts and tracks these men down while giving you a rundown of his life while he is going through each person. He is also feeling a sense of justice in how the man who killed his wife had gotten away murder because of a technicality. It is up to Hawke to find this person and put an end to these killings. A good story that has you going from the opening pages until the end. Liked the characters also.

With the state of Texas as the background, Hawke's Target brings back one of our favorite Texas Rangers to stop a vigilante serial killer. As the killer moves around Texas killing criminals who the law was forced to release, Hawke stays true to the Ranger code and does his best to stop the killing. Of course, it can't be easy or we wouldn't need the Ranger.
Reavis Wortham keeps our hero moving through a fast paced western that will remind you of many of your favorite characters. Ranger Hawke is written with a depth of detail that makes it easy to see and hear him in your mind as you read. The back stories are taken straight from today's headlines, so very believable. A great western with an outstanding character that we hope will live long and bring us many more chapters.

Thsank you to Netgalley for the opportunity to read and review this book. Quite the fun read. The bad guys are pretty obvious but just how many will die before Hawke comes out on top. It took a bit of reading to begin keeping the bad guy names straight. Wortham also could use a little tightening of his conversational paragraphs and descriptions. All-in-all a good action packed book.

Thanks to NETGALLEY I reviewed this and found TX Ranger Sony and Daddy Frank do not mix well but they sure mix it up!

An over the top adventure of those who have never been stopped and a lawman in the stopping business! Great read here

HAWKE’S TARGET by Reavis Wortham is the third book in the “Sonny Hawke” series, and findsTexas Ranger “Sonny” Hawke once again in the heat of a gun battle unexpectedly, although he and his fellow officers manage to come out on top in the end.

Sonny’s target is an apparent vigilante traveling with a truck and travel trailer who is leaving a trail of bodies of despicable criminals who’ve beaten the court system, only to be freed to remain a danger to others.
Having found himself embroiled in the aforementioned gun battle, he continues his search for the killer, in spite of uttered remarks by associates saying he should be rewarded and not incarcerated.

“Daddy” Frank is the feared patriarchal figure of a family of career criminals in the Big Thicket area that controls everything and everyone in his amassed group with family, local corrupt law officers, and other bent individuals that fit his desired qualities to do his bidding.

Alonzo is Frank’s son, and is the vigilante on the way back home with money, drugs, & explosives (along with something else) to fund Daddy’s planned revenge on an oil company that has a pipeline that he and others despise for its destruction of the landscape.

Can Sonny and his associates stop this freight train from hell bent on destruction from reaching it’s intended destination, and can he put an end to Daddy Frank’s criminal enterprise with tips gained from Frank’s grandson Tanner who is hoping to escape his clutch?

I liked this book, as I did the second book in the series, HAWKE’S WAR, and will go back to read the first book in this series “HAWKE’S PREY” when I pick up a copy.

Author Wortham receives high praise from several of my favorite authors of this genre, and thanks them in the credits of his books, which made it easy for me to select them to read, and I’m glad I did.

4 stars.

Very well written story, with great dialogue and characters. Unfortunately, the plot is based on the very improbable notion that an organization can be run on fear alone. I also don't like the changing POV when some of it is in first person, and especially here when it leads to repetition of scenes.

Rev Wortham is a terrific storyteller. His Hawke series is so real that I feel like I'm walking in his character's footsteps

Someone has gone vigilante by targeting criminals who have managed to evade the criminal justice system and punishment for their crimes. Texas Ranger Sonny Hawke is on the trail now and won't stop until he gets his man without risking the lives of innocents and other in the line of fire.

Simpy fantastic.

Reavis Wortham's Hawke's Target (Pinnacle 2019), third of three in the Sunny Hawke Thriller, is the simple albeit complex and fast-moving tale of a lawless family who sells drugs, porn, and whatever else makes money without any thought for the victim. By all accounts, they have never faced a circumstance where that amoral approach to life didn't work. They are ruled by the unforgiving iron fist of the patriarch, Daddy Frank, both a father and a grandfather but ruthless and unforgiving to his own family as well as extended members. He expects everyone to do exactly as he says and those who don't suffer vicious consequences. This works well for a while but cracks are forming, starting with his grandson, Alonzo. His wife was killed by a criminal who escaped conviction for the murder because of a technicality. Now, Alonzo's only purpose in life is revenge again this man and anyone who walks free of a heinous crime because of red tape. The more Alonzo researches these guilty-but-free killers, the more similarities he finds to his own family until he no longer sees any difference.

Trying to track down the serial murderer of the guilty-but-freed criminals is Texas Ranger Sunny Hawke. His focus at first is narrowly on Alonzo but that soon changes when the murders seem to be part of something much bigger.

The story is a fun, atmospheric story despite the seriousness of the topic. Highly recommended for those who like a good ol' Southern-based murder mystery.

--to be reviewed on my blog, WordDreams 8-9-19

Yet again Wortham delivers a masterpiece, oh the situations our Texas Ranger Sonny Hawke finds himself in. He should have stayed behind the desk. When I read the first book in this series I was not sure if I was going to like it but it only gets better with every book. I am glad that I found this author since other like James Lee Burke who has the same style is getting on in years. Now there is a new writer to follow and hopefully he will continue for many years. I strongly recommend that y'all try something by Reavis Z. Wortham Thanks to #Netgalley and #Kensington for giving me this opportiúnity.

The grandson was ridiculed, chastised, and embarrassed as a youngster by his grandfather, the patriarch of an evil, criminal family in the backwoods of East Texas. The grandson grows up and goes to work in the family business, but this scion is definitely bent. When a beloved relative is murdered by a felon released from custody due to a technicality, he takes it upon himself to play vigilante on many who have enjoyed similar pardons. Enter Sonny Hawke, Texas Ranger, who can’t let the man take the law into his own hands. Fueled by drugs, revenge, and hate for his grandfather, the vigilante is on a collision course with the ranger — a course littered with corrupt cops, informers, and traitors along the way. Non-stop action.