Too Far Gone (Lucy Kincaid Series #14)

by Allison Brennan

Overview

Too Far Gone by Allison Brennan is a thrilling addition to the Lucy Kincaid series that will leave readers breathless.

When a man who appears mentally unstable holds a group of people hostage and dies in a shootout with the FBI, Special Agent Lucy Kincaid is assigned to investigate what happened. Up until two months ago, McMahon was a respected scientist--then his wife left him, he lost his job, and was arrested for assaulting a former colleague. The one person who might have answers -- his research assistant -- has disappeared.

While Lucy is investigating this bizarre case, her husband Sean is on top of the world: his son Jesse is visiting for the summer. They are having a blast, until someone follows them. Sean is positive that the surveillance is connected to Jesse's step-father--a man who had once laundered money for a violent drug cartel. But when Lucy and Jesse are run off the road, they begin to wonder if the attack is connected to Jesse ... or Lucy's current case.

Nothing is what it seems--not the McMahon investigation or the car accident. As Sean and Lucy dig deep into the lives of everyone involved, one thing becomes clear: If they don't find the truth fast, everyone they care about is in danger.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781250887146
Publisher:	St. Martin's Publishing Group
Publication date:	10/30/2018
Series:	Lucy Kincaid Series , #14
Pages:	496
Sales rank:	140,064
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 1.11(d)

About the Author

ALLISON BRENNAN is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of over forty novels, including the Lucy Kincaid and Max Revere series. She was nominated for Best Paperback Original Thriller by the International Thriller Writers and is a two-time winner of the Daphne du Maurier Award by Kiss of Death. Married for more than a quarter of a century, Allison and her husband Dan raised five children, and currently live in Arizona where they enjoy baseball's spring training and exploring the Grand Canyon.

Editorial Reviews

2018-10-02

A hostage situation turned deadly is only the beginning of the latest wild criminal ride for San Antonio FBI agent Lucy Kincaid (Breaking Point, 2018) and her friends and relations.

Up until two months ago, neurologist Dr. Charles McMahon had an apparently unlimited future at Clarke-Harrison Research. But then something went wrong inside Charlie, who attacked a colleague, saw his wife walk out with the children, and got canned from his job. Brennan's opening scene finds him waiting in Java Antonio for Dr. Paul Grey, the CHR biochemist who's the only person he trusts anymore. When Paul fails to show up, Charlie snaps, produces a handgun, and takes everyone in the coffee shop hostage until he's shot dead by a SWAT team that includes Lucy, who's just completed her training as a hostage negotiator. What could have reduced Charlie to such desperate straits, and why didn't Paul Grey come to the meeting? The second question is quickly answered: because he's lying dead in Charlie's home office. But the first question, whose answer turns out to be pretty complicated all on its own, swiftly gets tangled with the continuing battle Lucy's bridegroom, Sean Rogan, is fighting with Madison Spade, his long-ago girlfriend in Sacramento, over custody of Jesse, the 13-year-old son whose very existence Madison's kept from Sean for most of the boy's life. Even though she's allowed Jesse to spend six weeks this summer with his father, she doesn't trust either Sean's judgment or his good faith. And her second husband, Carson Spade, the mob lawyer who avoided prison only by turning state's evidence, accepting disbarment, and taking his family into witness protection until the deaths of most of his old associates led the U.S. Marshals to judge that the threat against them had lifted, hates Sean with a passion and is more than willing to put teeth into his own threats.

Brennan's two plots, which seem to require the services of every law enforcement officer west of the Mississippi, keep the pot boiling but feel less like a tightly braided rope than an endless tug of war.

Kirkus Reviews