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The Drowned Rat

By: Brian L. Gardner
Narrated by: Ralph Scott
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It doesn’t take an engineering genius to interpret the meaning of the drowned rat found hanging from Barry’s doorknob. Barry is an engineering genius but doesn’t need much brainpower to decide that this is another escalation in a strange case of mistaken identity.

Barry has been receiving the venomous notes for a while. The message attached to the rat warns, “This is what I do to rats like you, Jimmy!”

Meanwhile, Val, Barry’s best friend and a special agent with the FBI, is on the hunt for a different kind of vermin. There’s a mole in the FBI Kansas City office. Two of his confidential informants have gone missing, and all of his case files have been destroyed. As he gets deeper and deeper into the mole hunt, Val finds a strange connection to his old friend Barry.

When Barry tries to get to the bottom of the mysterious messages, his stalker uses social media to launch a smear campaign against him. Barry begins to fear for his life. He sees sinister figures around every corner. Someone has it out for him and will go to unbelievable lengths to get rid of the man he thinks is a rat!

©2017 Brian L Gardner (P)2020 Brian L Gardner

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Little known gem

This was an interesting and fun book. Not sure what I could compare it too, but the way the characters are written and voiced, it plays like a movie. The main character gets positioned almost as a Mary Sue, but without spoiling the story, that is definitely not how it plays out.

I think this character has legs, and would be interesting to see future books centered on other misadventures he winds up in, along with his FBI friend. Wish it would have been a bit longer, but that is just my preference.

Thought the side characters were all interesting too. There are a lot of plot changes, and the obvious thing doesn't always happen, which I enjoyed.

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