The Names of the Dead by Kevin Wignall

 

This was a violent rendition of soul searching.   Wes, a former CIA agent, is incarcerated for a crime that although he committed was not planned.   Mia, the daughter of a war-lord becomes his special needs side-kick.

Wes is the classic trying to clear his name protagonist with a very sharp and violent edge.   Mia is an almost gender neutral, socially awkward person who Wes learns to trust.   The plot of going country to country seeking retribution for a murder and the search for a lost child provide the rest of the plot.

The story was compelling, the author provides a reasonable rationale for Wes’s behavior.

I enjoyed the book and recommend it.

 This book may have been received free of charge from a publisher or a publicist. That will NEVER have a bearing on my recommendations.