Abir Mukherjee, Hunted

“Talk about stepping outside your comfort zone.  The author of the excellent Wyndam and Banerjee series in Calcutta just after WWI now turns his pen towards the existential threat of homegrown violence. Two parents, one English the other American, are on the run chasing their children as the federal government seeks them out as pawns in a terrorist plot just days before the presidential election. Criss-crossing the country this cat and mouse game grows tauter and tauter with every page turned and what stands out is that these are real characters, with real foibles, and not some gunned-up, ex-military super hero so prevalent in novels such as this. That’s what makes it so scary. What happens if this someday comes true? Let’s hope we never find out.” — Pete Mock