Run...hide,,,,

I'm baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!  I suppose I could conjure  up a reason for a long hiatus.  Writer's block,
Ennui.  Too many other things to do.  Or just because.
Today's offering is Michael Koryta's THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD. (Little, Brown and Company). 
Every book of his that I have read has kept my interest all the way through.
This book draws the reader in quickly,  The focus of the story if a thirteen boy who witnesses an execution style double murder ass he is swimming alone in a local stone quarry. Then the boy, Jace Wilson becomes the target of the murderers. United States.
Ethan and Alison Serbin run a survival camp for youth in the mountains of the west.  And that seems the perfect solution to hiding a boy in plain sight. Jace's acceptance by Serbin is debated with Ethan deciding he can join the group and Alison having severe doubts about it.
The boy's trek begins as does the game of cat and mouse.
The killers that Jace can identify are the two Blackwell brothers,  They are stone cold killers and as psychopathic as they get.  Remember the James movie with Mr.  Kidd and Mr. Wint and their strangely out of context conversations?  Well, the Blackwell brothers are their heirs.  Weird.
The brothers were able to figure out where Jace is hiding and they begin their deadly search for him.  Jace finds out that he is being hunted and gets away from the group.  In his escape he meets up with Hannah Faber who is stationed in a remote fire watch tower,
The reader can follow Hannah and Jace as the climb higher to escape a fire below set by the brothers
after they killed the local sherrif.  Ethan and others are searching from the other side  And the Blackwells seem to be everywhere.
And that only begins to scratch the surface of adventure and suspense.
Koryta not only excels at plotting and storytelling, he also does a bang up job with his character development.  His people come alive  to the reader and have more than one dimension.
His development of sense of place is uncanny as well. The Florida book felt like Florida.  The Midwest -Ohio-felt true as well.  As did the latest set in the mountains.  I have to speculate if he
lived in all these places or is an excellent researcher or quite intuitive. 
This book has its moments of suspense, drama, humor, and sadness, I also had some interesting, to me  anyway, thoughts about character "cross pollination" while reading as well.  But that is more another time. Read this, you may like it as much as I did.