Killer Choice

Killer Choice, by Tom Hunt, Penguin Random House 2018

Fans of Lee Child and John Sanford thrillers will appreciate this new author's first offering, a shocking twist-and-turn story drawn from what could be for any of us a crushing moral dilemma.  Your life is going great, you're young, married with hope for a long family life, when "something" happens.  In Killer Choice, that "something" is the protagonist Gary Foster's wife Beth, seven months pregnant and suddenly diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor.  Stop right there.  Think about it.  It happens, more often than we think.

But what if the only treatment, experimental therapies available outside of the US, are not - of course - covered by ordinary health insurance?  Is there, might there just be another way - not a measly GoFundMe on-line drive, but a single big money answer to the clock ticking down to midnight?  And  what if that single solution required Foster to take a life, kill someone, join the numbers of desperate persons who have taken that route?  Would you, could you do it?

Killer Choice is not, however, stuck on Foster's decision dilemma.  We are drawn into his new world, one rendered crazier and foreign with every day, as we see the people and events that populate this alternative landscape. 

Mill Girl Verdict:  a well-written first offering from a promising new thriller writer.  One of a two-book deal, Killer Choice has to be succeeded by an equally fast-paced follow-on.