Vengeance is Mine

Vengeance Is Mine is the third book in the Jason Orr series. For the reader who has not read book 1, Death Is Not the Final Chapter, or book 2, Head of the Snake, Rehder wrote his third novel so a new reader can pick it up and quickly get engrossed in the storyline. Jason Orr's life has taken him all over the globe. Vengeance Is Mine is no different. This novel finds Orr in Ukraine and Russia. When he is away from the US, his nemesis Joseph Lehan pursues a vindictive mission against the last of Orr's family. Friends in the States are willing to intercede. Will their intercession be enough? For Orr, what started out to be a quiet visit with a longtime friend, Ukrainian Eleana Vovk, quickly turns into a desperate search. The search leads them into the dark world of the Russian Mafia, the Solntsevskaya Bravta. Orr willingly takes a back seat to Eleana, who is on her home turf. He has faith in her and her background as an ex–agent with the SBU (Ukrainian Secret Police). During their hunt, they are connected with several unknown operatives that they will have to depend on for their very survival. Then there are those they come against that would do anything to stay in power, even if it means taking Jason's and Eleana's lives. Will their search succeed, will they die during their effort, or will the events that unfold in the end shock them to their very core?

-- G. P. Rehder