I'm back!!

As promised,  I'm back.  The book JUDGMENT AND WRATH reminded me of the Mack Bolan series.    Violence is extremely graphic.  And there is a lot of gratuitous collateral damage.  But it doe not seem to slow people down too much.  This story has a good plot even so. Joe Hunter is a kind of "have gun, will travel"  sort of guy.  He basically is out to right wrongs and his current home is in Florida where it seems there are a lot of wrongs to right.  Of course, his methods are a bit extreme.  He is hired by a seemingly unhappy father who claims his daughter is being abused by her lover she lives with. And father wants Joe to bring her back. Of course, if something happens to the lover Bradley Jorgenson along the way, that would be great.  Being somewhat of a sucker for a damsel in distress and seeing a photo of a bruised Mari he agrees.  He walks into a real mess. Father is not the only one who wants to get rid of Bradley.  A professional hit man is also involved.  Well, from here on out the action is fast, furious, and deadly.  It seems that Jorgenson's money comes from some chemicals that also are of great interest to the government and there is an ongoing family argument as to how they should be used.  The bodies stack up.  Loyalties are divided.  And of course, there is the obligatory run in with the federal agents.  We discover with Joe that Father has not told all of the story and his interest in getting Mari back is not what it seems.     The action is non stop.  Computer gaming comes to mind.  The plot is plausible and timely with its tie in it the Iraqi war. The characters are pretty much cutouts, but you know what?  It still held my attention.