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Don’t Look Back
Gregg Hurwitz
451 pages
Published in 2014
This is a stand-alone thriller by the author of the Orphan X series, about a single mother who becomes the target of a remorseless killer on a holiday in Mexico. I was given this by a friend and bumped it up the TBR because I liked the premise and was in the mood for an action story. Let’s just say I didn’t get much done that day – this was a fast paced romp with a likeable heroine and a scary villain.
American nurse Eve Hardaway goes alone on the jungle adventure holiday she was supposed to take with her cheating husband, joining a mixed group of tourists in a remote Oaxacan eco-lodge. Finding items left behind by a previous guest, who then disappeared, she is suspicious of a strange man she spots living deep in the forest, but he really doesn’t want to be identified…
Despite being the third book I’ve read this year with this basic plot, (resourceful female is chased through a forest by an seemingly unstoppable enemy) I still thoroughly enjoyed it. It’s not as accomplished a thriller as any of the Orphan X books – some of the traps were quite predictable, the plot preposterous, and the chase went on just a bit too long, but I was happy with how it ended and who survived.
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