The Blue Horse is Bruce Borgos’s hat trick in the Porter Beck thrillers. He continues to evolve not just the characters but the writing in general to a cohesive and dynamic third installment that feels like the best one of them all.
Porter Beck has his work cut out for him when he witnesses a helicopter crash into the mountains. The situation worsens when the cause is a bullet found lodged in the pilot. Then comes the gnawing politics and scrupulous double crosses, but more than that, it’s a threat that hits close to home for Beck in ways he could never anticipate.
Bruce Borgos takes the best of both slow-burn and fast-paced thrillers and finds the sweet spot in between where investigative thrillers thrive. He starts the narrative on a slope, rounds off as the story gets fleshed out with more clues and twists and keeps a steady pace to ensure readers have ample time to both appreciate and prepare themselves for the discoveries, and then picks up the momentum again at the end for a highly satisfying conclusion. Throughout this all, he never leaves a moment to fall off course; every page feels vital to the narrative and every character plays an interesting role to advance the story with surprise revelations that catch you off-guard.
The Blue Horse is an excellent thriller that hits all the right notes for the most avid thriller aficionados and then some. If you like your modern stories with a touch of western and a lot of thrills, The Blue Horse is a must-read.
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