Chuck Logan Homefront

Homefront

Chuck Logan

Harper Collins, July 2005, $16.95, 368 pp.

ISBN 0060570202

Nina Pryce is on medical leave from the army after a military operation left her shoulder torn up. She and her husband Phil Broker, former cop and undercover agent, along with their young daughter Kit try to put their family back together following the strain of too many deployments. As they celebrate their first relaxed Christmas in four years, Nina plunges in a deep depression. Phil takes her up to a remote home in Glacier Falls, Minnesota to recover.

Kit gets into a fight with the schoolyard bully Teddy Clump and his father tries to beat up Broker who takes him down. Cassie Clump demands an apology and a new shirt for Teddy; she has her brother Gator break into the Pryce home where he finds out that Broker was the undercover agent who fingered JoJo for running drugs. He was killed in a shootout and his father has a contract out for the agent. Gator and his girlfriend willing to turn Broker over to a hit man in the hopes that will help them gain a piece of the biggest meth factory running. A showdown is looming and it is almost a certainly that blood will flow on the streets.

When it comes to action thrillers, Chuck Logan is one of the best writes on the market today. His strength lies in his ability to create characters readers like and even more so he crafts villains the audience loves to hate. HOMEFRONT is a dark, gritty and suspense laden work that is reminiscent of the works of Jack Higgins and Les Sandiford with protagonists worthy of their own series.

Harriet Klausner