Kill the Heroes
A Charlie Henry Mystery
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4.0 • 4 Ratings
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- $12.99
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Publisher Description
Charlie Henry, co-owner of a pawnshop and Iraq war veteran, has, for the most part, settled into his somewhat quieter life in Albuquerque. He is invited to attend the dedication of a memorial in a park, where he, other local heroes, and first responders are to be honored for their military accomplishments and dedication to the community. But trouble always seems to follow Charlie. When gunshots ring out, barely missing Charlie and hitting the man next to him, it’s clear that a dangerous madman is on the loose. More shots are fired, and two more veterans are injured.
Charlie thinks he might have been the target and looks around for the shooter. The crowd is in a panic, and he’s unable to spot the gunman. Charlie tries to help the man who took the first hits, Nathan Whitaker, a decorated former Army helicopter pilot who has been badly wounded. No one is dead, at least not yet. But Charlie vows to find the evil person who would attack American heroes—he refuses to go down without a fight and knows that the perpetrator will soon learn that he has messed with the wrong man.
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At the start of Thurlo's uneven fourth Charlie Henry mystery (after 2016's Rob Thy Neighbor), the war veteran and pawnshop owner attends the dedication of a new public park in Albuquerque, N.Mex., honoring local heroes. When a gunman opens fire, an Army helicopter pilot sitting near Charlie is fatally shot in the chest. A message later found on the gate of an area middle school suggests that the shooting may have been an ISIS terrorist attack. Charlie worries for the safety of his friend Dawud Khoury, who was his translator in Afghanistan and is now a U.S. citizen. After Charlie and fellow vet Gordon Sweeney are shot at, the cops' interest turns to Dawud's 16-year-old son, Caleb. The arrival of a dangerous CIA agent raises the stakes. While the focus on Islamophobia and terrorism is timely and the action scenes are well done, the pervasive tough-guy talk and otherwise awkward dialogue get tiresome. Charlie's burgeoning romance with single mother Ruth Brooks, who works at his pawn shop, doesn't add much.)
