Kill Devil

April 11, 2016
Dellosso’s cleverly plotted second Jed Patrick novel (after 2015’s Centralia) finds the Afghan war vet hiding with his wife, Karen, and their eight-year-old daughter, Lilly, in a cabin in the Idaho wilderness. Two months earlier, two CIA agents gave him a thumb drive containing “every damaging piece of information about the Centralia Project,” the exposure of which threatens to cause a “scandal that would be talked and read about for decades to come.” Then one day Jed returns to the cabin to find Karen in tears. She tells him that three armed men burst into the cabin asking for the thumb drive, but she didn’t know where it was. The men took Lilly, and vowed they would return for Karen. More shocks follow. Meanwhile, CIA technician Tiffany Stickton discovers a plot to control Jed’s mind in a sophisticated update of The Manchurian Candidate. Can she stop him from becomes an unwilling assassin? Delloso expertly misdirects readers, but they should be prepared for only serviceable prose. Agency: Leslie Stobbe Literary.

June 1, 2016

In the sequel to Centralia, Afghanistan War veteran Jed Patrick finds that adopting new identities and moving to a new location are not enough to protect his family from the agency that is hunting him down. The abduction of his daughter sends him on a course to destroy Centralia once and for all.

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