Exit Wound will have your adrenaline flowing and your heart beating faster as you are consumed with this battle of good vs. evil. Isabella Maldonado has once again constructed a high-octane, pedal-to-the-floor thriller that holds you captive as you journey to hell and back.
Detective Veranda Cruz is laser focused on dismantling the Villalobos cartel, for both professional and personal reasons. When the extradition of a high-level informant turns out to be a setup to free the brutal criminal, Veranda doubles down on her efforts and puts the people she loves in danger. Disobeying orders from her Lieutenant, she’s able to do some damage to the cartel and its leader, Hector Villalobs. Setting up a deadly showdown where only one of them can walk away with their life.
This is another stellar novel by Isabella Maldonado. Well-written, filled with great characters and a fast-moving plot, it has everything you could want from a thriller. Suspense, action, twists and turns, emotion and drama, and a big showdown between the protagonist and antagonist. It presses all the right buttons to deliver a gripping and engrossing read. With everything hanging in the balance, it’s a book you cannot put down until you know how it ends. Hoping for fist pumping moments but preparing yourself to shed tears of agony.
It’s also a story about family, friendship and finding your own path. Exploring the concept of nature vs. nurture and fate vs. control. Are you destined to follow in the footsteps of your ancestors because the DNA flowing through you has preordained the outcome of your life? Or are you a product of your environment and your actions, controlling the outcome of who you will become? Rare that you can be entertained and left in suspense for hours with a book that also provides something deep to think about. But Exit Wound does just that. Making for a fantastic reading experience.
Isabella Maldonado has entered “must-read” territory. Delivering banger after banger. Crafting stories with depth, emotion, action and bloodshed that are engaging as hell.
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