Title:  Return Fire

Author:  Barry W. Ozeroff

Publisher:  iBooks

Reviewer: Jeff Edwards – AAA Member

Charged with adrenaline, Return Fire is a high-speed Police Thriller that never lets you off the edge of your seat.

Ben Geller is a police sniper, assigned to the Special Emergency Response Team in Stratton, Oregon. When his team is called to a hostage situation on Christmas Eve, the situation is tense, but the hostage negotiators seem to have things well in hand.

Without warning, the suspect is gunned down by a perfect sniper shot to the head. The bullet is a .308 caliber, the same kind fired by Ben’s rifle. There’s only one problem… Ben hasn’t fired a shot, and neither has the backup sniper assigned to his team. The shot came from someone outside the team: an expert sniper who’s perfectly willing to commit murder just to get Ben’s attention.

The unknown killer is called the Shadow, and he is stalking Ben. More importantly, he is threatening Ben’s family. He knows the family’s movements in intimate detail; he somehow manages to photograph Ben’s wife, daughter, and foster son in their own beds and even in the bathroom. He makes it clear that he can reach out and kill the people Ben loves, and he makes it equally clear that he has reason to do just that.

Why is the Shadow fixated on Ben Geller? The secret must lie in the past. Maybe it’s something having to do with the suicide of the crooked cop who was Ben’s first partner, or with the female officer who once shared Ben’s bed and doesn’t want to let him go. Maybe it’s something else altogether. All he knows for certain is that people are dying, and the maniac behind it all has him square in the crosshairs.

Ben is a good cop, but he has made mistakes, and some of them are coming back to haunt him. And in his haste to track down the Shadow and bury the past, he has overlooked one very important fact. His wife has secrets too.

Equal parts mystery and action thriller, Return Fire is page-turning fiction at its very best.

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