Moves by John Michaels
Mystery, Crime, Thriller Date Published: 7/7/16 In the blink of an eye, Robert Jake’s perfect life became hell. Jake, a radio talk show host with a pregnant wife, had the perfect life until, in a moment of “Patriotic Stupidity” he decided to stop talking for a living and start shooting to help his country. Deployed to Iraq, he barely made it home alive, shot-up and full of shrapnel, after a fatal ambush. Moves is a mixture of single parent meets thriller, action, and suspense in bucket loads. If you like intrigue, plots with twists and turns, a little bit of romance and a story that keeps you holding your breath until the very last page; read on. Moves is a chess game of a page turner, where each chapter keeps you trying to outguess the killer. We encounter Robert Jakes story, and the stories of those around him, at several points as flashbacks and therapy start to fill in aspects of his past. Jakes suffers with memory loss, bouts of depression and anger caused thr...