Hostage

Hostage by Robert Crais
Mystery

An ex-con with delusions of grandeur and his tagalong brother unwittingly team up with a psychopath one wrong word away from meltdown. When their late afternoon joyride turns into a random act of violence, they take a family hostage in the affluent bedroom community of Bristo Camino. Enter Chief of Police Jeff Talley, a stressed-out former LAPD SWAT negotiator who is hiding from his past. Plunged back into the high-pressure world that he desperately wants to forget, Talley soon learns that his nightmare has only begun.

The hostages are not who they seem, and the home contains secrets that even L.A.’s most lethal and volatile crime lord, Sonny Benza, fears. As Talley tries to hold himself together and save the people inside, the full weight of Benza’s wrath descends on him, putting the police chief and his own family at risk. Soon, all involved are held hostage by the exigencies of fate and the only one capable of diffusing the standoff is the least stable of them all.


This book is about a hostage situation but the hostages are not what they seem. How will Talley get his family back? This was enjoyable and full of suspense. Are criminals that dumb they just can not see there is no solution but to give in? Mars' situation is not described as fully as one would wish. It seems almost as if the author ran out of time and rushed his story

Rating:

(3.5/5)