I truly have enjoyed all three of the books in this series. Otho Eskin is one of my favorite modern day suspense
writers, He keeps his protagonist, Detective Marko Zorn (DC Homicide) on the front lines of current events with
extra side stories that really keep the suspense / thriller genre very strong in his books. When he blends a new
deadliest yet fentanyl derivative with money laundering, art thievery and murder it’s a very interesting ride from
every angle. It must be said that the fentanyl driven epidemic is not solely street drugs~ the pharmaceutical companies are dug into the problems deeper than the D.C. Police have been able to crack. And the money
being generated is linked to the theft of a painting worth millions of dollars that has not been seen in decades,
But is tied to the criminal enterprise run by the two brothers who run the company that pretends their drugs are
not killing people.
Marko Zorn is not having any more of this, but his methods are just a bit outside the lines and the Chief fires him…Until she needs him to find her missing daughter, which opens this whole mess wide open.
This is a fantastic book, full of everything you could want from murder to mayhem! The Author reminds me just
a bit of a Daniel Silva book, or perhaps a David Baldacci. I recommend that while it is a stand alone story,
It would be best to read the first two books, I recommend it to anyone who loves Police Suspense novels.
My thanks to Oceanview Publishing via NetGalley for this free down;load in exchange for my honest review.

When a publisher is generous enough to provide me with an ARC of a new release, it always pains me not to be able to say something nice about it. But in all honesty, in this case, I simply cannot.

I read Eskin's first book, THE REFLECTING POOL, and liked it a lot. Then I read the second, HEAD SHOT, and liked it quite a bit less. FIRETRAP I did not like at all.

The first two-thirds of the book were promising, despite several egregious geographical errors regarding Washington DC that should have been caught in the editorial process. The final third of the book, however, was a shambles. In a frantic effort to tie together all sorts of disparate elements and bring the damn thing in for some kind of a landing, the narrative became so cartoonish that the book dissolved into a downright silly, nearly incoherent mess. The weird action scene set for some incongruous reason on an abandoned oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico was particularly ridiculous.

Perhaps this book was just meant to be a clever satire of cop novels and a send-up of Washington DC, and I simply missed the whole point. I hope so. Otherwise, it offers little to recommend it.

Amazing story and protagonist. Third book with Detective Zorn, and I’ve already picked up the first two to read immediately. Big Pharma is the bad guy in this story and so many characters are brought in that Zorn, with his own way of doing things, is constantly finding himself in dangerous situations. Starting with a burning car, progressing through a murder disguised as a mugging, a kidnapping, a firing from his job, suicide, and more, Zorn finds a way through the maze in his fight for the right.