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\"AgainstBy Brad Parks
\n\u00a9 2021, Thomas & Mercer
\nASIN: B08BZJ6VJ5
\nKindle Version, file size 2873 KB<\/p>\n

I have yet to read a Brad Parks novel that doesn\u2019t grab me. This one was no exception. Parks knows how to write great thrillers, and delights in doing so. Unthinkable<\/em> is a twist on the old trolley problem\u2014basically, if you could save five people by killing one person, could you\/would you do it? That philosophical\/ethical debate is interesting enough. But Parks twists it like a knife in main character Nate\u2019s heart when he is confronted with a more up-close and personal version of the dilemma.<\/p>\n

Parks\u2019 characters have depth. They aren\u2019t just names and faces, they have motivating factors that drive them; they want, need, dream, squabble, love, and hate, all the things that bring them alive on the page. It is impossible for me to stay aloof from their quandaries; thus I am swept along with their narrative.<\/p>\n

This impossible, unthinkable choice Nate has to make, though\u2026wow. I honestly didn\u2019t know which way he would go. I couldn\u2019t help but try and put myself in his shoes. Could I do what was being asked of me? Of course not. It\u2019s unthinkable. Yet Parks keeps tightening the screws, pushing the plot into a bottleneck so that there is no clear way around the inevitable. And even when I thought it was obvious what would happen next, Parks yanks the story in a totally new direction with twists I did not see coming. I was already hooked before I\u2019d gotten ten percent of the way through the novel, but by thirty percent, I could not put it down. I finished the whole book in two days.<\/p>\n

Unthinkable<\/em> is a class act, a thriller that lives up to its name with every page. Most highly recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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