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    Exit Strategy
    Exit Strategy
    Exit Strategy
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    Exit Strategy

    By Charlton Pettus

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    An innovative debut thriller about the secretive organisation that the rich and infamous call when they need to start over with a new name, new face and new life — and what happens when one client tries to go home.

    An innovative debut thriller about the secretive organisation that the rich and infamous call when they need to start over with a new name, new face and new life – and what happens when one client tries to go home.

    Sometimes you just need to escape.

    For crooked politicians, military brass from third–world nations and white–collar criminals looking to avoid either prison or a deadlier form of payback, there's Exit Strategy. With just one call, Exit Strategy helps these wealthy but wanted types disappear completely. They can fake your death, give you a new name and face and launder whatever ill–gotten funds you may need to establish a new life on the other side of the world.

    When Jordan Parrish, the brilliant founder of a medical technology startup, made the call, he thought he had no other way out. With his marriage in shambles and his company on the brink of financial ruin, it seemed the only way to make things right. But after his exit, he began to wonder about the circumstances that led him to make that momentous decision. Was he just a victim of bad luck or was someone working against him? To find out, Jordan will have to break the cardinal rule of Exit Strategy: you can never, ever go back.

    For fans of William Gibson, Michael Crichton and Robert Ludlum, Charlton Pettus's Exit Strategy is a cutting–edge, globe–trotting thriller about the type of shadowy organisation that most of us have long suspected exists behind the scenes.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers Australia
    Release dateJun 1, 2018
    ISBN9781489265852
    Author

    Charlton Pettus

    Charlton Pettus is a songwriter and producer living in Los Angeles. Since 2000 he has been a member of Tears for Fears, producing their last record and touring with the band as lead guitarist. Exit Strategy is his first novel.

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    • 1/5
      I'm at a loss. This book's description offered everything I'm drawn to in a story. The story itself, though... The kindest thing I can say is that I didn't like it.This book consists of extremely short sections, alternating a variety of narrating characters. We jump from one thing to another and then to something else. Adding to the confusion, we also have flashback chapters. The result is a choppy mess. At times I'd read a section and wonder if any of that was actually necessary information, or if it was necessary to add that narrating character into the mix. Other times, sections were so short that I couldn't even grasp the point of it. The scenes I found compelling ended before they went anywhere. Many of the scenes are no more than a few short paragraphs.Then we have the characters, who are mostly stereotypes behaving in expected ways. This novel is very clearly written from a man's perspective, as far as women's behavior, at least. I got about halfway through this book. The disjointed storyline was giving me a headache. I was irritated. The short scenes made me want to scream. I stopped reading and tossed this one in my 'give to charity' pile, mainly because I can't bring myself to throw away a book.*The publisher provided me with a copy of this book, via Amazon Vine, in exchange for my honest review.*
    • 3/5
      I just finished Exit Strategy, it was intriguing and quite entertaining.

      I really enjoyed the way this story describers the way this man changes his identity, fakes his death, then moves him somewhere else.
    • 2/5
      I received this ARC as part of a Goodreads giveaway in return of an honest review. Thank you very much to Hanover Square Press and author Charleston Pettus for sending me this book.Jordan Parrish, brilliant scientist, finds himself in a precarious situation and sees no other way but to dial the number that will change his life completely. Literally. Before he knows what’s happening he is kidnapped, held hostage for a few months, and given a new identity in Japan. Meanwhile his family is convinced he lost his life in a car accident and tries their best to move on. But what was Jordan running from and will starting a new life be enough to live in peace? More importantly, does he even want to?Charly in Pettus’ debut thriller is a very complex book with many short chapters that dive into the lives of a variety of characters. And that’s where the main issue lies in my opinion: the jumps between characters is way too frequent and no character really gets the chance of introducing him or herself fully. As a result, the reader still is not really sure what the main story is actually about and how all the story arcs come together and add to the overall premise. Moreover, the story is unfortunately a little dry and I had a very hard time picking the book up and keep on reading. Even after over 100 pages I was not really immersed in the story and I decided to DNF it. I do think, however, that Pettus’ thriller has a lot of potential, if the chapters are edited better (ie longer chapters with focus on one character at a time) and the story progresses faster. Not really my type of book. 2 stars.

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