River Of No Return
David Riley Bertsch
Scribner, Jan 6 2015, $26.99
ISBN: 9781451698039
If Jackson Hole, Wyoming fishing guide and B&B owner Jake
Trent knows that any thoughts of returning to his previous prosecutor life
ended with his recent adventures (see Death
Canyon) reminding him how much he needs to stay away. However, he reconsiders his reconsideration
when former lover Divya Navaysam pleads with Jake to come to D.C. to
defeat Idaho U.S. Senator Rick Canart’s push to deploy Chinese developed technology
SafeTrak to locate illegal immigrants.
When his friend J.P. begs him to find his missing girlfriend Esma
who failed to come home from Mexico, Jake immediately agrees. As they search for her, Jackson Police Chief
Roger Terrell and his wife Charlotte visit a theme park replication of Jackson
Hole in China as invited guests of the owner Xiao. However, Xiao takes the couple prisoners to
force the return of his daughter Meirong; who recently vanished in the Jackson area. Meanwhile Divya allies with Xiao to pressure Jake
to search for Meirong; while the Feds and the Chinese government want her too.
The second Trent thriller (see
Death Canyon) is an exhilarating search and rescue with an international influence
that looks deeply at illegal immigration, corrupt politicians and effective
lobbyists. The excitingly yet seemingly
divergent subplots seamlessly merge into a stupendous storyline that has
readers rooting for Trent to save several women in distress.
Harriet Klausner
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