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It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die. Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace. He’s found it, more or less: he’s built a relationship with a local woman, Lena, and he’s gradually turning Trey Reddy from a half-feral teenager into a good kid going good places. But then Trey’s long-absent father reappears, bringing along an English millionaire and a scheme to find gold in the townland, and suddenly everything the three of them have been building is under threat. Cal and Lena are both ready to do whatever it takes to protect Trey, but Trey doesn’t want protecting. What she wants is revenge. A nuanced, atmospheric tale that explores what we’ll do for our loved ones, what we’ll do for revenge, and what we sacrifice when the two collide.
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0Dense in a great way, a lot of action and internal processing. I didn't guess the doer. They might have passed through my mind for a nanosecond but I dismissed them as unlikely. And the climax was very intense and a little scary. I felt the resolution of the conflict between Cal and Trey was just the tiniest bit ... unprocessed? rushed? too smooth. I liked that Lena was pretty instrumental in getting some of it figured out, even though she kept saying she didn't want to get involved; her offer of help allowed things to finally move and start to resolve.
I think Cal and Trey ought to talk a bit more to work out some unspoken mistaken ideas. Maybe that's in the next book. Or never, they seem like they could just never get around to actually vocalizing thoughts.
ETA: I had to pause at about 3% in and go back and re-read The Searcher because I couldn't remember enough of it. After I finished doing that I re-started reading The Hunter and I was glad I pulled The Searcher back into my local memory. There was a lot of context that was quite useful. I recommend reading these in order.
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