The Fifth Angel

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Summary: When do you cross the line?
Review: This story is about a man intent on getting revenge for his daughter who is kidnapped and tortured by a rapist. Jack Ruskin crosses the line when he goes after serial rapists when the man that abused his daughter is given a short sentence due to a legal technicality despite the horror of his crime. What starts out as a father righting a wrong quickly crosses over to a man who can't stop himself from becoming an avenging angel and killing sex perverts, one at a time.

On his trail is Amanda Lee, an FBI agent who loses her partner while trying to apprehend a sex offender. She hesitates a minute too long before shooting the criminal and that is enough time for him to kill her partner before he dies. His partner in crime escapes during the chaos.

After this fiasco, Amanda is assigned to track down Jack Ruskin, an assignment that she does not want but due to "bureaucracy", has no choice but to accept. Teaming up with a renegade cop who thinks he is Dirty Harry, Amanda starts hunting Jack.

The whole story comes to a climax when the criminal who escaped while Amanda killed his partner decides to go after Amanda's children for revenge. Now Amanda has to decide what is really important, following the law or protecting her children? Will she go after Jack Ruskin who is killing sex offenders when one of these criminal is after her own flesh and blood?

The author makes you ponder on the question, "Is it right to take the law into your own hands and kill when someone you love is hurt or in danger?"

Read this book and draw your own conclusion.