From the USA Today bestselling author of Robert Ludlum’s Treadstone series, Burn Out is a no-holds-barred thriller from the “master of action” (Publishers Weekly) Joshua Hood.
Becoming one of the US Forest Service’s elite smoke jumpers has been Jake Slade’s dream. Parachuting into the path of a raging fire and beating it into submission isn’t for the faint of heart, but Slade has never backed down from a challenge. After surviving the grueling six-week training course, he thinks he’s ready for anything nature has to dish out.
What he hasn’t considered is manmade danger, in the form of an old friend turned CI and the DEA Special Agent determined to hunt him down … using Slade as the tracker. It’s an offer he wants to refuse, but with the promise of prison time being expunged from his record, Slade agrees, hoping to finally put to rest the demons of his past.
But what begins as a straightforward search and rescue mission swiftly turns into a harrowing run for his life … - from Netgalley.com
This eARC was given to me through Netgalley.com, and I am providing an unbiased review.
This one was a trial run for me in reading. As a fan of the Bourne movies, and not having read any of Ludlum's works, I wanted to try this author out, plus the story synopsis sounded somewhat interesting. Overall, the story is interesting, and fairly action-filled like one would expect from an action series writer. We have a guy trying to put a bad past behind him, working on being a smoke jumper, whose ties to the earlier life come back to 'haunt' him. We have a cartel boss that sends out a sicario to remove some problems, and it all happens in a forest that has fires burning all over.
Though interestingly possible for all these scenarios to actually happen, as I read through, it just kept getting more and more unbelievable at times. The story and plot are fairly well developed, and the writing style easy to read and understand. I just discount the level of imagination the writer is wanting me to use for an action novel. This is able to be read as a stand-alone novel, and is not associated with any series that I am aware of.
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