Midwest Book Review by Diane Donovan

 

The Fisher Man
Ron Gambrell
Rough River Publishing
www.roughriverpublishing.com
9780990856276, $18.00 Paper/$9.99 Kindle

https://www.amazon.com/Fisher-Man-RON-GAMBRELL/dp/0990856275

The Fisher Man spins an intriguing blend of thriller, social and political inspection, and climate change issues into a novel about Elijah Haycraft, who survives a youth of abuse and torment by adapting his killing instinct to the world around him.

His early actions mark him as a dangerous fighter in his youth, causing community members to avoid him and his rage. It's an attitude which could attract the wrong forces, even in government circles - but it's one which portends to get dirty deeds done if Elijah can be convinced that his actions are key to saving the world.

The US government's plans to control climate change blends nicely with the decisions to redirect and utilize Elijah's underlying rage and strengths in unusual ways.

Environmental issues weave into political special interests and social struggles as the thriller elements interweave with Elijah's psychological development and the forces that place him in the center of a perfect storm during a time of environmental crisis.

As issues of how sociopaths are born blend with larger concerns about how special interests can tap their psychological traits, readers looking for thriller components augmented by astute characters that absorb trauma and reflect its impact into the world in different ways will find The Fisher Man thoroughly absorbing.

Replete with strong individuals who closely examine the truths and courses of their lives, The Fisher Man may be billed as a thriller, but is equally powerful in its psychological probes of lives and worlds off balance, that intersect in unusual ways.

Libraries and readers seeking potent first-person stories of evolving friendships and conundrums will find The Fisher Man hard to put down.

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