And when you discover who the Savage Son is and why he is so savage it leaves you rooting for Reece, yet again! Thoroughly recommend. The trilogy is set in current times so you can’t help yourself wondering how the present may actually be playing out now that your armed with Carrs extensive armoury of knowledge of global circumstances and conditions. Carr plays with the contradictions eloquently engagingly and with a great dose of reality. A crusader of good moral standing but where being a sniper holds contradictions in his crusade. Reece is a cold blooded killer with a moral conscience. I then read Terminal List and immediately followed by Savage Son. That third book in the Jack Carr’s trilogy got me so hooked that I had to find out where it all started. I wondered what the title of this book would bring, having discovered James Reece and his crusade when I first met him in “In the blood”. If your son was the same you too would do the same. Regardless, I loved it very much and I have definitely gone back to the beginning multiple times because I did not want the story to end. It is of course necessary for us readers/ listeners to understand the characters and their motivations that drives the plot especially when it comes to the antagonists psyche, but it's a little too drawn out for me. Savage Son is excellent! However, with the introduction of each new character, Jack provides a full back story of said character. Commander James Reece had me breaking, grieving, angry, anxious and celebrating each righteous kill (even though I literally gagged through some of the gory bits) - Good job to Ray Porter! If you have your listeners cringing, sweating, nauseous, laughing and biting their nails, you are doing it right!.

Jack Carr's writing about the skills of tracking and hunting reminds me of one of my all time favorite and legendary writing heroes Wilbur Smith.

Savage son by jack carr