Wounded Prey
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DESCRIPTION
It’s time to finish what he started… Book #1 in the Farrell & Kearns Series A young girl is snatched in broad daylight from outside her school and later found brutally murdered and hanging from a tree. When recently retired San Francisco Police Inspector, Bob Farrell, sees this on the news, he realizes his worst nightmare has just come true. The same brutal killer a government agency stopped him from putting away twenty years before is once more on the loose. As the killer wreaks a trail of blood and destruction across North America, Bob Farrell teams up with rookie cop Kevin Kearns and sets out to track down their lethal prey. But Farrell & Kearns are not playing by the rules any more than the killer is, and soon the FBI have all of them in their sights… A visceral and heart-wrenching cross between No Country For Old Men and Silence of the Lambs, this is an exhilarating debut from a thrillingly authentic author. |
Published 2015
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REVIEWS
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“With Wounded Prey, Sean Lynch delivers a hell for leather, wild ride of a debut with the “been there done that” authenticity that lifts it above other thrillers. I just added Farrell and Kearns to my short-list of favourite characters, and Vernon Slocum to my worst nightmares! Think ‘First Blood’ meets ‘No Country For Old Men’.”
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Matt Hilton, bestselling author of the Joe Hunter series.
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“The characters are all really well fleshed out and by the end of the book I felt like I knew them all really well. Farrell and Kearns may well become one of my favourite crime fighting duos….This is one of the best crime writing debuts I have seen in a very long time and I will definitely be keeping an eye out for future releases. Sean Lynch is most certainly a writer to watch.”
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“Wounded Prey by Sean Lynch is a first novel promising a series featuring the lead characters of Bob Farrell and Kevin Kearns, a retired detective and a rookie cop… This is a must read!”
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“Wounded Prey, Lynch's first novel, introduces a pair of investigators that I hope will be around for a long, long time: retired San Francisco Police Inspector Bob Farrell and Story County (Iowa) Deputy Sheriff Kevin Kearns…In "Wounded Prey," the writing sparkles.”
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“I really appreciated the authenticity of the characters and the situations. Lynch is clearly drawing on his career to pull together a dynamic and often gruesome story.”
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“The hunt for Slocum is extremely gritty and brutal, and Lynch certainly pulls no punches in telling the story from a variety of different perspectives. I suspect that Lynch has relied heavily on his real-life experience because it definitely shows that he knows what he’s talking about.”
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“…Wounded Prey is a genuinely exciting thriller which contrives to avoid the more obvious pitfalls in portraying the potentially explicit subject matter. You should give this a try.”
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“Wounded Prey was a hell of a read. At times harrowing – Lynch doesn't pull any punches when it comes to Slocum’s crimes or his past – it is a gripping read and the ending of the book leaves an opening for a whole series of books featuring Farrell and Kearns. And I can’t wait!”
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“Wounded Prey may be Sean Lynch’s debut, but he writes with the confidence of an old hand and has created a genuinely exciting page-turner.”
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“Adrenaline pumping, gory and scary at times, Wounded Prey is an expertly written crime thriller debut definitely not for the faint hearted.”
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“If you love a good thriller, you’ll blaze through this one, and personally, I can’t wait for the next Farrell and Kearns novel! What a great debut!”
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“I don’t quite know how Lynch managed it but things get even darker than before as the novel morphs from straight crime into something closer to psychological horror.”
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“…I’m still in awe at what a presence Lynch has given Slocum and I can’t imagine any another character trying to enact Slocum’s perverse role. I’m sure there will be more Farrell and Kearns quests which I will be thrilled to read, but those who try and step up to fill Slocum’s shoes have a mighty big challenge ahead of them…I almost wish the hunt had never ended.”
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“…the pace is unrelenting and you will find yourself all too reluctant to draw away as this was one of those books that cries out ‘go on- one more chapter- you know you want to’…a bloody corker…”
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“…Sean Lynch's debut effort is quite something. This is one brutal book…Four stars!”
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“WOUNDED PREY is a non-stop thrill ride of a book. Unrelenting, brutal, scary, and at times skin-crawling in its depiction of atrocious crimes. And yet it is also funny, warming and believable…WOUNDED PREY is a great book,…”
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“Wounded Prey should come with warning labels…Could. Not. Put. It. Down…Tight, Dark, Authentic and Very Well-Written…Wounded Prey is well-written, compelling and frighteningly believable.”
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“It’s not too uncommon to find a good novel, but it is more rare to come upon a novel as absorbing as this one, where reading it causes the external environment to drop away and time to pass without noting it. “Wounded Prey” is a very disturbing, graphic, violent, terrifying novel; but it is a novel that deserves a wide readership….author Sean Lynch… has become a must-read author for me.”
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