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Title: Evil Unleashed

Subtitle: Mind of a Madman, Book 1

Author: Valerie Bowen

Narrator: Todd Waites

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-09-13

Publisher: valerie bowen

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Caleb Talbot escaped from prison during a riot. After fleeing the facility, Caleb lived peacefully hidden away on a farm in Nebraska. Until law enforcement discovers the escapee that had been presumed dead, was very much alive.

Warden Hahn of the Kansas State Penitentiary enlisted the aid of Officer Michael Quincy and his canine partner to find the escapee and return him to prison where he belongs.

Caleb Talbot discovered law enforcement was on his tail, and quickly devised a plan to retain his freedom. The kidnapping of a woman is the beginning of Caleb's heartless murder spree.

Michael soon realizes the man he had been hired to capture, has a disturbing past lined with brutality and bloodshed. He also knows Talbot has little regard for human life.

Can Michael and his canine partner Sasha bring the madman to justice? Or will they be just another name on Caleb's ever growing list of heinous murder victims?

Members Reviews:

Can't put it down!

I haven't read a book to where I cannot put it down in a very long time. I read the book and a day and half because I was so hooked and couldn't wait to read what the psychopath is going to do next on his journey of "freedom." Yes, like another reader has mentioned I noticed some parts could have been edited better but for me that was minuscule because I was engulfed into the story itself. If you are squeamish when it comes to blood and details of murder then it may not be for you. Although the book is not like that every other sentence but when the psychopath reacts it is in great detail. This is the first time I have ever read a book written by this author and I absolutely will be reading more books that are out there from her. I, myself seemed right there in the setting of the book and that's how I determine (along with the story line of course) that it's a wonderful book and is a great read to past the day away.

A Thriller That Needs Sharpening

Mind of a Madman: Evil Unleashed is a thriller. Like most thrillers, the suspension of disbelief must be overcome for the thrilling part of the story to grab the readers by the throat and allow the story to march forward unrestrained. It didn't work for me. The "carefully planned" escape was more coincidental luck and poor police procedures than careful planning. And our main protagonist is declared dead twice in the most incompetent ways possible in the first two days. And he seemed to get, find, or stumble across just what he needed at every turn. Still I read on. The author had an engaging character with a never stated mental problem (for which there was never any true indication that he was getting medical help though it was stated he was), and I was curious.

But the unlikely pursuit of Caleb, the escaped prisoner, across several states by a Kansas cop, sometimes as unglued as Caleb, and later joined by a Nebraska State Trooper, who quits his job to continue the pursuit that stretches over several months (don't remember the weather changing) and across several states, made the story harder and harder to accept. Caleb is one bad dude, and the graphic violence is what you would expect. She nailed some of those scenes. How he wanders around at his size without being spotted defies normal life, but this is fiction and a thriller.

I must confess.