G.M. Ford No Man’s Land

No Man's Land

G.M. Ford

Morrow, Jul 2005, $16.95

ISBN: 0060554827

At Meza Azul, Arizona maximum security facility, former Navy Captain Timothy Driver holds 163 people hostage. He threatens to kill one of them every six hours until true crime writer Frank Corso, who wrote a bestseller that treated the naval officer with respect, meets with him. He has put to death a guard so the authorities are taking Driver seriously, but finding Corso proves a bit of a problem until the Coast Guard locates him sailing in Seattle's Garrison Bay.

Corso has no idea why Driver insists on seeing him now even if the writer painted the murderer as a victim too in the crimes of passion killings of his wife and her lover. Although he prefers not to go to Meza Azul, Corso cannot pretend to have A BLIND EYE to the fact that Corso will kill innocent victims. He enters the prison with instructions from law enforcement officials to learn what Corso and his seemingly more unbalanced partner Cutter Kehoe wants. Inside Corso becomes a hostage when riots and chaos break out. With few options if any, Corso's only hope to survive resides in a cold passionless killer whose humanity was sucked out of him by his spouse's betrayal.

NO MAN'S LAND is a gripping action thriller that fans will lose sleep over while they try to finish it in one tense sitting. The storyline moves forward at hyperspeed and never slows as the audience wonders whether Corso will survive in spite of being the hero of this tale and previous novels. G.M. Ford scores big time with riveting taut tale that once again keeps his works at the top of the line.

Harriet Klausner