The part that I read was following mainly three situations. The first involved a group of radical Christians on a mission to let the terrorists know that they meant business. Another man was part of a ransom exchange, and the third was at the scene of a crime at the Hoover Dam.
The radical Christians believe they are on a mission from God. Their families believe that they have been killed in a roadside bomb, but really they are vigilantes trying to use scare tactics and terror to stop the terrorists. One part I read had them killing some terrorists that they had rounded up with a single bullet and others were going to be beheaded and their heads would be sewn into pig carcasses (to prevent them from entering paradise). Eww.
At the ransom exchange, Quinn has been lured there by the kidnapping of a woman and child. There is a specific terrorist that is after Quinn specifically and knew that the kidnapping of these 2 people would remind him of his wife and child. As a result, we find Quinn tacked to the table with a knife through his hand and the threat of death by the sword. He escapes with the help of an unsavory character that the terrorists had betrayed and takes a corpse with him back to his base. Double eww.
The Hoover Dam is the scene for a gruesome and unusual crime scene. A cube van holds a dead man who is hanging upside down with a cross on his back and an American flag sticking out of the wound. Kate has a phone number that she is supposed to call when she gets there and becomes involved in something beyond her usual day.
The part of this book that I read wasn't boring. I quit because I don't like reading these types of books anymore. There are just too many elements that can and do actually happen in these days of war and strife that I just have problems reading it. I wanted to like the book, but it was more depressing and brutal than I wanted to invest in. It just wasn't my kind of book.
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