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THE KNOWLAND RETRIBUTION
by Richard Greener
Midnight Ink, March 2006
421 pages
$15.95
ISBN: 0738708623


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Walter Sherman earned his nickname, The Locator, in Vietnam. He’s made a living out of finding people. Sometimes they’ve run away from things, sometimes they don’t really know they are lost. But he has a knack for finding people, for making the right mental leaps, for having made the connections which make this job fairly easy for him. And he’s happy with his life, for the most part. Oh, there are places in his mind he’d rather not revisit, but who doesn’t have their own dark closet somewhere?

Walter is approached by three men, three very nervous men, investment bankers from Wall Street. They want him to do something he hasn’t been asked to do before. They want him to figure out who he has to find, and then find him. The man they want to find is killing the people connected to an E. coli outbreak several years before. Hundreds of people died, thousands were sick. Who is angry enough to travel all over the country to kill the people connected with the business deal that led to these deaths?

Also looking for this man is a reporter, Isobel Gitlin. She writes the obituaries for the New York Times newspaper and she has made the connection between several deaths in various parts of the county. She believes they are related, and puts her career on the line convincing the top brass at the paper to run with the story.

Walter finds Isobel, and convinces her that they can get more done together than apart. They also have the obligatory romantic relationship, which is not too incredible, actually.

Greener has written a very compelling and difficult to put down thriller. We know early on who is killing everyone, and why. What we don’t know is how the book will end. One doesn’t have to be an idiot to realize that people will want this killer dead and that he does not want that. How does he manage this? There's a twist that will make many readers think long and hard about the moral questions involved – in the initial decision to release the meat, in how the killer is tracked down, and in the final outcome. THE KNOWLAND RETRIBUTION is a ripping good read!

Reviewed by P. J. Coldren, July 2007

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