Rarely do I curse when I finish a book, but as I wrapped up Lethal Range, I had an “Oh f***, it’s over” moment. It’s so difficult finishing a great novel because then you know the next book you read likely can’t compete. That’s what it was like finishing this barn burner. It was an all-out, thrilling, guns-blazing, superb sequel to Steck’s hit debut thriller, Fields of Fire.
The story starts off with Matthew Redd off working in Spain when Redd authorizes an unauthorized raid and then realizing his team got set up. Even worse, back home in Montana, his wife and sick child are being intimidated by the Infidels MC gang. A suspended Redd quickly returns home to his family where he knows there’s a battle with the MC right around the corner.
Ryan Steck’s follow-up to Fields of Fire is a brilliant, northern thriller. Blurring the lines between military thriller and western, Steck weaves multiple genres into an action-packed, movie-like novel - think Lonesome Dove but with more motorcycles and, somehow, more gunfire. Or Clint Eastwood in Sons of Anarchy.
Do you like thrillers? Ok, then pick up a copy of this book. Do you like westerns? Then grab one. Do you like books at all? Do yourself a favor and pick one up. EVERYONE should read Lethal Range. Make sure this makes it one your reading list this year.
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