Well! That got the adrenaline going! Matt Rogers’ writing is so good, so fluid, that I happily devoured pages of extreme violence without batting an eye! Logan Booth is an assassin with a pure heart; this is not an oxymoron as becomes clear in the early pages of The Forsaken. He has been duped into believing his handler for the last ten years, and the consequences for that are the subject of this amazing book.
Logan takes inspiration from philosophers he has read since his days at NYU, although his degrees were in the sciences. He sees corruption in high places, and exploitation of vulnerable people all around him from his one-bedroom apartment in Brownsville, an area of New York “…ravaged by the consequences of the crack epidemic.”
Logan joins up with Alice, a crack-addicted witness he sees as needing his protection, although she has reached the point of self- destruction. Don’t start reading this in bed if you are planning on getting any sleep that night.
Logan Booth is going to be a memorable literary character, and it looks like this book is going to be the first in a series which I will definitely be wanting to follow.
I read The Forsaken in one day. Great book!
Published by Simon & Schuster
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