Shades Of Mercy by Bruce Borgos (2024)
I was unabashed in my praise of "The Bitter Past", the first book in a series about Nevada Sheriff Porter Beck and that goes double for this one.
Sheriff Beck may be an aging Army veteran with failing night vision, but he's fearless, intuitive and relentless as Jack Reacher when it comes to sniffing out and hunting down villainous, violent conspirators.And as fate would have it, the vast arid Nevada desert that he and a mere handful of Deputies patrol invariably attracts a mixture of both homegrown and global evil. This new case finds him pitted against no less than a cartel drug lord's flooding the county with lethal fentanyl laced opioids and Chinese spies plotting all out cyber war on America.
Somehow, smack in the middle of all these nefarious goings-on is Mercy Vaughn, a mysterious teen girl incarcerated in a desert juvenile facility. She happens to possess the kind of computer hacking skills that somebody's been using to remotely hijack and pilot armed Air Force drones, which brings her to Porter Beck's attention. Though Mercy's cut off from using computers, the Sheriff instinctively knows she's anything but what she seems but so does a ruthless Chinese spy who's on the hunt for her.
That's as much as I'd dare reveal because the book then proceeds to unload a hold-on-to-your-seats ride of suspense, surprises and brutal action. that never lets up, much like Sheriff Beck never lets up until things are put right and the various perpetrators get some good old fashioned Nevada justice.....no matter what their country of origin.
Loved this book and count me in as first in line whenever Porter Beck's up against a new slew of malefactors straight out of Miami Vice and James Bond. Put it high on any 'don't miss' thriller list this year. 5 stars (*****) (Chances are, you'll want to immediately catch up with the first book in the series, if you haven't done so already....)
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