Liz Wolfe Natural Selection

Natural Selection

Liz Wolfe

Medallion, Nov 2005, $6.99, 325 pp.

ISBN: 1932815228

Former Portland homicide detective Paige Blackwell has become more than just a private investigator, as she has bought a thirty percent share of Parker Security Investigations. Now she has to find a way to pay for it, and it looks like Lady Luck has dealt her a winning hand when TV producer Wader Culver offers Paige a chance to become a member of the team for the ultimate reality show Xtreme Survival

Paige agrees, and flies to a Caribbean Island with five other group participants. The plan is to survive as a group in the wilderness for two weeks, and each member receives $50,000 dollars. The pilot who flies them to their locale, accidentally overhears a conversation in which Wade and three other men plan to hunt and kill the group. He warns them in time for Paige, as the team leader to hold the group together while evading the hunters and seeking a way off the island. When the group compares notes, they find that each one has been involved in some way with Eastland Industries. If they get off the island, Paige is determined to find out who wants six innocent people dead.

NATURAL SELECTION is the ultimate cat and mouse thriller, as the cats have all kinds of weaponry, and the mice have to scurry about if they want to stay alive. The action scenes are breathtaking and very visual, so that readers actually feel what the group is feeling. The characters, including the secondary cast, are well developed, and enhance each others skills forging a good team. Readers will definitely enjoy this adrenaline pumping heart stopping thriller.