Finished Tu 11/1/16
This is a library book that I got because I loved DARK MATTER. This novel is nowhere near as interesting as DARK MATTER, but a very compelling thriller (mabe a bit overblown).
Will Innis and his wife, Rachel, and his five year old daughter, Devlin live near the Mexican border in Arizona. Rachel is a nurse and one night she fails to come home. For no real reason, the police suspect Will, so he runs with Devlin, and they start a new life (one of many plot points that are pretty hard to accept).
One day he is approached by Katlyn Sharp. She claims to be with the FBI and she knows who he is, but is only interested in him because she wants him to identify Javier Estrada. This man belongs to The Alphas, a group of super-commandos who provide protection for the Mexican cartels.
Rachel had been kidnapped by a rich group of men who use women for sex and torture in a lavish secret resort in remote Alaska near the Wolverine Mountains.
Katlyn pretends that she is one of these women to infiltrate the group and allows herself to be transported to this resort. Will and Devlin (this is five years after Rachel's abduction) follow with a tracking laptop.
Wolves run wild near this place and kind of act as security. Katlyn, Will, and Devlin attack the resort, kill all of the rich men. Soon, Javier returns with three other commandos and attempt to retake the resort. They don't. Much mayhem with little or no character development. But, a ripping good read (however, it's one of those things were you kind of hate yourself in the morning).
In the end, it appears that Katlyn and Javier are together, but after their escape from Alaska, they are on a luxury liner heading for South America. Katlyn throws him over the side of the book. Will, Devlin, and Rachel hope that they can live out their lives 'under the radar' of The Alphas'.
This is part of The Fear Trilogy- three distinct and separate stories. Crouch seems to write a lot of series.
I will read more of this author and I'm looking forward to watching his TV series, WAYWARD PINES- Matt Dillon, Juliette Lewis, Melissa Leo.
link to amazon-
https://www.amazon.com/Snowbound-Blake-Crouch/dp/1511321563
link to many reviews at GoodReads-
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7722061-snowbound
AN ASTUTE OBSERVATION AND I TOTALLY AGREE-
"A train wreck of a book. Couldn't look away, but thought less of myself because of that"
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