Intense and explosive, Burn Out is a fiery, balls-to-the-wall action thriller that turns up the heat and gets your adrenaline pumping. Josh Hood has delivered a heart-racing, harrowing and stimulating tale filled with danger, violence and perseverance.
Mikey Boone is on the run from a Mexican drug cartel after being found to be a confidential informant for the DEA. Despite a falling out years ago with his buddy Jake Slade, he has no one else to turn to and reaches out for help. Slade is now a smokejumper and is in the middle of fighting a wildfire, intending to ignore his former friend’s call when the DEA agent running Boone explains the situation and asks for his help. Slade agrees and sets off to find Boone, kicking off a deadly game of cat and mouse with a cartel hitman and his team of mercenaries who will eliminate anyone in their path. Not knowing who to trust, Slade falls back on his considerable skillset and his moral code to see this through to the end. Even if it kills him.
The non-stop action in Burn Out is enough to satisfy even the most hardcore of thriller junkies. But there’s much more to this book than stalking enemies, gunfights, and fisticuffs. It’s about redemption. Finding a way to not have your sordid past define you, rather finding a new calling that does good for the world and starting fresh. It’s about persistence. Never quitting despite the odds against you, pushing your body to it’s physical and mental limits and staying in the fight. It’s about following a code. Never leaving a man behind, even if it’s a former friend who you haven’t talked to in years. And yes, it’s also about vengeance. Putting everything else to the side and raining down violence on those who would do unspeakable, viscous things to you and your friends.
Exceedingly entertaining and jam packed with uncontainable energy, Burn Out is the high-octane, edge of your seat summer blockbuster you’ve been waiting for. A cinematic story that’s easy to picture gracing the silver screen one day.
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