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MWSA Review
One Death Too Far by Dennis Koller is a gripping thriller, akin to a wild roller coaster ride with crazy twists and hairpin turns. Ken “Mac” McArthur is called home from a mission with the Red Squadron when his father, Special Agent Walt McArthur, is killed in a fiery plane explosion. Mac vows revenge for his father’s death. The story takes off like a rocket as Mac investigates the bombing of the aircraft his father was on, which leads him to a cartel boss. As a reader, I was invested and along for the ride.
Victor Serna, a ruthless cartel boss, knows that the younger McArthur will want to avenge his father’s murder, so he orders a hit on the son. The attempts to kill Mac fail, but succeed in strengthening Mac’s resolve to find answers to an unraveling puzzle in his hunt for Serna.
While working for the DEA on a mission to dismantle the cartels, Mac uncovers a deadly deception within the agency that puts him in the crosshairs of traitors.
One Death Too Far is a fast-paced book, hard to put down.
Review by Nancy Panko
Author's Synopsis
When DEA Special Agent Walt McArthur is assassinated in a fiery plane explosion orchestrated by a ruthless Mexican drug cartel, his son, Ken "Mac" McArthur—a recently retired Navy SEAL and leader of the elite Red Squadron Security Agency—returns home to bury his father…and unleash hell.
Fueled by grief and vengeance, Mac reactivates his covert team of operatives to hunt down those responsible. But cartel boss Victor Serna, a man known for silencing threats before they rise, issues a kill order on Mac—knowing full well that blood ties ignite vendettas.
Mac accepts a shadowy DEA mission—Operation Snow Plow—a sweeping plan to dismantle the cartels once and for all. But as the body count rises, he begins to question who’s really pulling the strings.
What starts as a black ops mission spirals into something far darker. Mac uncovers a treacherous conspiracy within the very agency he’s working for—one that reaches into the heart of Washington power and puts his entire team in the crosshairs.
Now hunted by both the cartel and those he thought were allies, Mac must navigate a deadly web of deception, betrayal, and moral ambiguity…before he becomes the next casualty in a war where no one is clean—and nothing is as it seems.
Format(s) for review: Paper or Kindle
Review genre: Fiction—Mystery/Thriller/Crime
Pages/Word count: 319 / 73,000