Cries of the Lost -- Chris Knopf

In Dead Anyway, which I reviewed here, Chris Knopf introduced Arthur Cathcart.  In that book, Cathcart nearly dies when his wife is killed in a savage attack.  He's terribly wounded, but even before he's fully recovered, he sets about trying to find out who killed his wife and to do something about them.  He achieves his goal, with the help of Natsumi Fitzgerald, a woman he meets in the course of the story.  What he doesn't know at the end of the book is why his wife was killed.  Finding the answer to that question is what he's doing in Cries of the Lost.

The answer is a tricky one and Cathcart and Fitzgerald need all their abilities at computer searches, disguise, and survival to get to it.  The story covers a lot of territory, including England, the South of France, the U. S., the Caribbean, the Mediterranean, and probably some other areas I've forgotten.  As they piece the story together, there's one hairsbreadth escape after another.  Explosions, car chases, and gun play abound.  Cathcart isn't quite recovered even now from his previous injuries, but he gets around well enough to evade everyone who wants to kill him and get hold of information that they believe he has.  Even when he finds it, he doesn't know what it means.

Cries of the Damned has slam-bang action, serious detection, and a couple of main characters that you're bound to root for.  Highly entertaining reading.