Nick Horrigan gets a visit in the night. SWAT has come to his balcony. He thought he was safe, the past buried. But “The Incident” that has had him living underground for twenty years has reared its head and now Nick must pay the piper. He will save L.A. and then run from a government that wants to honor him now but discarded him then.

Gregg Hurwitz has an ability to twist story telling like Snyder’s twists pretzels. TRUST NO ONE will almost certainly be a best-seller. Nick was a child who saw one truth all those years ago when “The Truth’ is a much darker and scarier reality. The death of a father will not save the life of a son but perhaps, if Nick can arrive at the truth in time, he may be able to have one.

That is the personal story within TRUST NO ONE. Hurwitz is never one to embrace a singular narrative, choosing instead to fill our imaginations and allowing us to look at issues and the subjective morality that influence us every day through media manipulations, story cycles and a government that’s gone beyond Laisse Faire towards the imperialistic governments we first fought against as a nation.

This story resonates with action on every page. Our personal liberties and the governmental omnipresence that we all feel everyday is brought to the page with an unflattering and refractive light .

But this is a personal story. If Nick can get himself out of this mess we will have all one a great victory. Viva la Thriller. When done in the manner of TRUST NO ONE, the thriller does indeed thrill.

Ruth Jordan 0f Crimespree Magazine

Ken Bruen has amazed me always. With Sanctuary he has taken Jack Taylor from the streamlined to the sublime. With his understanding of the metered word and thoughtfulness towards all that has come before he gives his reader a Jack Taylor outing like none before. I so want Jack to find peace. Will it happen? Only he and Bruen know but I will be there for the Last Supper.

Ruth Jordan 0f Crimespree Magazine