The path he's taking is a dangerous one, where bullets fly freely to guard the biggest secret the company has: it kills its employees for the insurance money. Dillon can't expose the company alone and ends up being helped by a pastor who's struggling financially and some people that used to work for the company. There are men who will kill to keep the list a secret, and making it out alive isn't going to be easy.
This story was just too unrealistic to make sense. I don't care how big your company is, there's going to be some sort of investigation when people are shooting guns everywhere. And I didn't understand why everyone's first thought was to go find people in different states instead of just calling them, especially when the characters weren't sure if these people were still in the same place. There were other minor things I had a hard time with.
One of these was the whole scene where the security guard (from a superstore) had a gun and chased down a shoplifting couple in a car. There was a gun fight and car wreck. The guard was worried about proving they were thieves, so he had to find evidence in their car. The store has bar codes to identify which employee walks through the door, but they don't have security cameras? There were just a bunch of times when I stopped reading and said, "What?"
I can't tell you how surprised I was to read that the author had a degree in journalism and had been a writer for a newspaper for 20 years. This was definitely not the caliber of writing I would have expected from someone with that history. The flow of the story suffered from long paragraphs of narration, and the grammar was lacking in many places. Every time a character was introduced, there was an entire paragraph describing everything about them, and sometimes there were added bits of backstory that were irrelevant to the overall tale. I think the main concept of the book had potential, the story just didn't get there. It wasn't for me.
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