Gregg Hurwitz (You're Next) consistently creates explosive openings to his thrillers, and The Survivor delivers his most forceful yet. Nate Overbay is a professional crisis responder with the Los Angeles Police Department, but his job is no help when he's the one in crisis. His wife and daughter have left, he's tested positive for Lou Gehrig's disease--Nate feels he has nothing left. So he's decided to commit suicide. Then, just as he's about to take a nose-dive off a building, a gang of gunmen burst into a bank. Deciding he's going to die one way or the other, Nate charges in after the gunmen, taking them by surprise. But becoming the hero just put Nate's family in grave danger--the suicide will have to wait.
Despite the extraordinary circumstances, Nate is a character with whom readers will easily relate, empathizing with the daily struggles of his job, paying the bills, coping with divorce and a strained relationship with his teenage daughter. And his painfully realistic relationships with other characters keep the momentum of the book in overdrive.
The Survivor offers more than a tightly woven, fast-moving plot. Hurwitz examines tough interpersonal issues as well as current social issues, like soldiers coping with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder--and, in the midst of such serious subject matter, still comes up with sharp, witty dialogue. Using a combination of fast-action sequences and passionately charged circumstances, Hurwitz will ignite readers' heart rates with an extra jolt of adrenaline. --Jen Forbus of Jen's Book Thoughts