This is a new author for me, and I’d certainly listen to more. I choose this action thriller which isn’t my usual genre for the narrator Scott Brick, but he wasn’t as great as I’d hoped, still good though and worth the listen.

Jake Slade is a rookie smoke jumper with a criminal past. His friend Boone is an informant for the DEA but has gone missing before the start of the trial. Slade agrees to help find him.
We also get the POV of Keller a Federal agent nearing retirement with a few hiccups in his career to live down . Not everyone looking for Boone wants him to testify, there’s a contracted hitman in the mix to ensure that he doesn’t to protect the Cartel.

I found the back drop of the story with the smoke jumpers fascinating, there’s some great descriptions of a smoke jumpers role, you really get the feel of a raging wild fire with its inherent dangers. It’s an action thriller so there’s much more involved than wilderness fire fighting. There’s certainly plenty of action for ongoing interest, there’s more emphasis on the action than character development but I liked Slade’s transition during the book. There some bits of humour thrown in that had me chuckling at times.

If like me you’re new to the genre of action thrillers it’s an easy one to get into.