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Author name: J.D. Rhoades

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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN num: 9780312353872
ISBN number: 0312353871
Label: St. Martin's Minotaur
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Minotaur
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 320
Printing Date: June 03, 2008
Publishing house: St. Martin's Minotaur
Release Date: June 03, 2008
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Jack Keller works in fugitive apprehension, and never feels more alive than when he’s hunting down a skip. But when a young girl goes missing, and Keller finds out that the father is an AWOL member of the army’s elite Delta Force, he knows immediately that this case will be anything but fun and games.



Keller is a Gulf War vet who knows his way around the Army’s blue tape, but the psychological scars from his experiences in the gulf have only just started to recede enough for him to live and love again. No one is sure how taking on the kidnapping case will affect him, least of all his girlfriend Marie, who’s counting on Jack’s recovery if they are going to have any future together. But what choice does he have? A young girl’s life hangs in the balance—and in order for Keller to save himself, he’ll have to save her first…





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Rated by buyers 4 out of 5 stars - Strong, stark and sure
SAFE AND SOUND, J.D. Rhoades's third Jack Keller novel, begins with a nightmare scenario. Remember that beginning. It's but a premonition of what is to come in one of the darkest --- and best --- novels of 2007.

Keller's emotions have always trolled out where the buses don't run, and he finds himself slipping deeper and deeper into dark territory in SAFE AND SOUND. He is in the process of attempting to put a relationship together with ex-policewoman Marie Jones. Running a private investigation agency, Jones accepts a case that will have implications reaching far beyond its expected boundaries. She agrees to trace the whereabouts of David Lundgren, an Army sergeant who has absconded with his young daughter.

Keller becomes involved in the search, quickly surmising that Lundgren has ties to the special ops community. Not even the Army, however, knows where Lundgren is; he has, in fact, fallen afoul of DeGroot, a dark force of nature skilled in the ways of the arts of interrogation and murder. DeGroot is on a trail that began in the mountains of Afghanistan and will end in the mountains of North Carolina. His trail will intersect with Keller's, with both men leaving --- and bringing --- death and destruction upon friend and foe alike with steel-edged certainty.

More than Keller's happiness hangs in the balance; his sanity, already teetering on a fine edge, may well be lost to the abyss. And Jones, heretofore the shelter in the storm of Keller's emotions, is in the path of both men.

Rhoades has a fine sense of irony that runs deep and true through SAFE AND SOUND, beginning with the title and continuing all the way to the very last page. The author's narrative, which reads much like that of Dashiell Hammett, is strong, stark and sure, just like his plot. One never gets lost, but one is never safe, either. This is a work of quality that hints of even greater things to come.

--- Reviewed by Joe Hartlaub


Rated by buyers 3 out of 5 stars - Can you say Rambo?
Good book, thrilling, lots of adventure, and seemingly more intelligent then the character of John Rambo, but their was too much similarity between the characters, to be truly original. However, if you like the action packed bravado that their characters offer (and I do) then this is another book to add to the list.


Rated by buyers 5 out of 5 stars - KILLER book!
I've been looking for a decent series since I stopped reading Spenser, and this is it. Read the very first Keller, and was hesitant about the 2nd and now the 3rd, but in every one Rhoades has kept it up, kept Keller interesting, kept the past story as fascinating as the present, and moves everything along at a pace that won't let me put the book down. I've got my husband hooked on them, as well as my grandfather, and everyone I get to read them thanks me.

I am ready for the 4th; bring it on, Rhoades!


Rated by buyers 5 out of 5 stars - Harriet the Spy Did NOT Read this Book
Anyone who can do basic math knows that Harriet Klausner can't possibly read all the books she "reviews." But for this one, she gets plot points wrong that are settled in chapter TWO, so there is no spoiler alert reason to give a blue herring. She says Keller must rescue a little girl from her father, but the Delta Force dad is dead early in the book, in fact we see him being tortured by the bad guy in chapter ONE, so she couldn't have read much. She completely mischaracterizes his partners, too. And as for the political agenda she tries to impose on the story she doesn't know...

At least she got the star rating right. Dusty Rhoades is better than Lee Child, and could be as good as Stephen Hunter if he keeps this up. This is a can't catch your breath thriller with really good characters, so good in fact, that most of the good guys-- and guys trying to be good guys again-- are more interesting than the bloodthirsty killer.


Rated by buyers 4 out of 5 stars - Rhoades & Keller: a dynamic duo
I haven't read any of J.D. Rhoades' other novels so when I started this one I felt like I had walked into an old-time, Saturday afternoon serial thriller at the beginning of episode three. A lot of things are going on and they all seem to have started in episode two, or maybe even one. A lot of different characters make brief appearances on the screen, some of them doing cruel and dastardly things to helpless victims. Other characters are in the midst of some kind of inner or outer turmoil of their own, turmoil that also started sometime in the past.

Into this mix strides Jack Keller, a tough and mysterious man with a tough and mysterious past. He knows about guns, explosives, and war. Most of all, he knows and understands the cruelties that Mankind so casually and callously inflicts upon itself. And from the very very first page of this novel, the puzzle that is Jack Keller, and the puzzle that is Life itself, begins to take shape before the viewer's eyes, slowly at first. Before long, however, the tempo begins to pick up. Soon the reader is being propelled forward at breakneck speed.

Rhoades' descriptions of his characters, both major and minor, are sharply drawn and clearly delineated. They also have the feel of being dead-on accurate. His descriptions of settings are also sound and solid. Whether it's a Middle East desert or the Blue Ridge Mountains of the American South, the reader can taste the air, feel the grit, maybe even tap into memories from his own past.

But regardless of the geography, Jack Keller's presence is always close at hand. His strength never falters, despite the stress (and there is lots of that in this story, as well as lots of action). And the confrontations between Keller and his nemesis, in this case a cruel and savage monster by the name of DeGroot, are always tense if not explosive.

And like those old Saturday serials, once the climax is reached, once the crises have all been dealt with, Keller leaves the screen as he came on: a resolute loner, now returning to his own solitude. But you also know that he will soon resume his ready position, like a coiled rattlesnake, waiting for the subsequent chapter, waiting for the subsequent set of crises.

If you like J.D. Rhoades, you'll want to grab this one quick!

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