Trust No One

Categories: Mystery & Suspense , Fiction

2:18 a.m.  It’s a great time for a suspense novel to start.  Greg Hurwitz's Trust No One opens on that moment. 

Nick Horrigan is used to waking up at 2:18.  It’s the time his stepfather, Secret Service Agent Frank Durant, bled to death in his arms.  The 17-year-old Nick had snuck out of the house to meet a woman, undoing all of Frank’s elaborate security locks, and came back to find Frank shot. 

The guilt has snapped Nick awake at that time nightly, his one faithful companion on his wanderings since that night when his stepdad’s colleagues on VP Jasper Caruthers’ security detail showed him a jail cell, bought him a plane ticket, and told him to go away. 

The life Nick has finally begun to remake for himself in LA is shattered at 2:18 again when a SWAT team rappels onto his apartment balcony and takes him.  It seems there is a terrorist threatening to take out a nuclear power plant, and he has said he will only talk to Frank Durant’s son. 

Nick finds himself caught up in another inexplicable mystery, and is soon on the run again.  This time, he’s determined not to run blind.  Why would a terrorist ask for him?  Who is the man?  And how—of course—does this connect to his idolized stepfather’s death years ago? 

It’s the classic suspense novel of paranoia, where our lone hero tries to find out why everyone seems to be after him.  Readers may see some of the twists coming, but they’ll enjoy the wild ride down the road.