The Last Casualty

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Summary: The Last Casualty
Review: A quick and exciting read! Hope this will be the first in a series of Chris Parsons mysteries...I highly recommend this book!!Two thumbs up!!!

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Summary: A Thrilling Book
Review: I picked this book up the other day and would highly recommend it to anyone looking for an exciting read. The book follows a young newspaper reporter working for the fictional Boston Tribune as he finds himself involved in a governmental conspiracy. What begins as a feature article on an former POW-turned aspiring presidental candidate soon becomes a high stakes game where the reader never knows who will be the next casualty.

The author draws on his experience of being a West Point cadet as well as a setting (Boston) of which he obviously has extensive knowledge. This provides a very real world for the protaganist, Chris Parsons. While some conspiracy theories can seem far-fetched, Peter Spring weaves quite a believeable story. He also keeps the action going at a generous pace and unravels the mystery one piece at a time, keeping you reading until the thrilling conclusion when all is revealed.

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Summary: An Exciting First Novel!
Review: Open the cover of Peter Spring's novel, The Last Casualty, and you will be thrust into the exciting world of Chris Parsons, a young reporter working in Boston, Massachusetts. In this story, Chris is assigned to write a fairly routine article about a senator running for president, but when he digs a little deeper into the senator's background, he finds a puzzling web of cover-ups and mystery. Although his editor tells him to drop his investigation of the senator's past, Chris senses that he may be on the verge of breaking a major story involving the Vietnam War and the senator's father. He presses on despite the fact that dead bodies of people associated with his newspaper research keep piling up. Will Chris be the next victim?

This novel is well written with a seamless plot that keeps the reader in suspense until the end, when Peter Spring pulls all of the evidence together into a satisfying conclusion. Chris Parsons, his colleagues and his friends are engaging and three-dimensional, with delightful quirks that make even the smallest characters worthy of attention. The details of Boston are authentic and clear, giving the reader a real sense of the environment in which Chris lives, and his budding relationship with Leslie is sweet without overshadowing the major plot of the story.

Overall, this was a thoroughly entertaining book, one I would recommend to anyone looking for a good suspenseful tale. I hope to read more about Chris Parsons in future novels by Peter Spring!

Rating:
Summary: An Exciting First Novel!
Review: Open the cover of Peter Spring's novel, The Last Casualty, and you will be thrust into the exciting world of Chris Parsons, a young reporter working in Boston, Massachusetts. In this story, Chris is assigned to write a fairly routine article about a senator running for president, but when he digs a little deeper into the senator's background, he finds a puzzling web of cover-ups and mystery. Although his editor tells him to drop his investigation of the senator's past, Chris senses that he may be on the verge of breaking a major story involving the Vietnam War and the senator's father. He presses on despite the fact that dead bodies of people associated with his newspaper research keep piling up. Will Chris be the next victim?

This novel is well written with a seamless plot that keeps the reader in suspense until the end, when Peter Spring pulls all of the evidence together into a satisfying conclusion. Chris Parsons, his colleagues and his friends are engaging and three-dimensional, with delightful quirks that make even the smallest characters worthy of attention. The details of Boston are authentic and clear, giving the reader a real sense of the environment in which Chris lives, and his budding relationship with Leslie is sweet without overshadowing the major plot of the story.

Overall, this was a thoroughly entertaining book, one I would recommend to anyone looking for a good suspenseful tale. I hope to read more about Chris Parsons in future novels by Peter Spring!

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Summary: Suspenseful
Review: Suspenseful from beginning to end. I'm looking forward to the next Chris Parsons mystery! The characters were realistic and exciting.

Rating:
Summary: Suspenseful
Review: Suspenseful from beginning to end. I'm looking forward to the next Chris Parsons mystery! The characters were realistic and exciting.

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Summary: Chris Parson is the next hero of high-stakes politics!
Review: This book keeps you on the edge of your seat through one chapter after another! From the tense first chapter set in a prison torture camp, through the ensuing chapters in Boston, our hero Chris Parsons keeps us in anticipation as he unravels a mystery that rattles all the way up through the highest levels of government!

This is a must read book for any adventure/mystery enthusiast, and hopefully it's the first of many more Chris Parsons novels to come!

Rating:
Summary: Chris Parson is the next hero of high-stakes politics!
Review: This book keeps you on the edge of your seat through one chapter after another! From the tense first chapter set in a prison torture camp, through the ensuing chapters in Boston, our hero Chris Parsons keeps us in anticipation as he unravels a mystery that rattles all the way up through the highest levels of government!

This is a must read book for any adventure/mystery enthusiast, and hopefully it's the first of many more Chris Parsons novels to come!