I had yet to read one of Thomas Perry's gems about Jane Whitefield and, after reading this book, I'll be looking to read more of these thrillers.

Jane Whitefield, born a Seneca Indian, has a strong sense of right and wrong, good and evil. Saving her runners from evil is her specialty. She has an amazing talent for striking down evil and a strength up against that evil that is instinctive. See, Thomas Perry's characterization was so well done that Jane Whitefield feels like a real, flesh and blood, person, not just a character in a story.

Wrongly convicted of murdering his wife, Jane's latest runner is a man that she help to escape from a court house. This intricate tale is not as simple as one might at first believe it to be, as armed men attack Jane right there on the courthouse steps. She goes along with a trio of what she believes to be police officers, but they turn out to be henchmen of an evil mastermind who has a strong interest in seeing Jane's client dead.

Perry grabs you from page one with this incredible thriller that has so many twists and turns it could make you dizzy. The story is not for the faint of heart. Written in third person point of view, most of the time we see things through Jane's thoughts and action. Occasionally we see through the killers' eyes too, which makes the tale all the more gripping. Perry weaves this tale with nonstop action from the first page to the last.

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I have read and enjoyed most of the previous books in this series; this is the seventh Jane Whitefield novel. I thought this one was a pretty good read although it was definitely on the more violent side. Jane is a Native-American Seneca guide who leads people to a new life when they deserve a second chance and are being sought by others. She knows how to cover her tracks and provide her clients with new identities to start a new life.

In this one, she is out to help James Selby who has been falsely convicted of murdering his wife. Jane is able to break him out of a criminal court as Selby was there to testify. But before she could escape she is picked up by imposters posing as the police who shoot her in the leg. She is then taken to a room where she is tortured by the men trying to get her to reveal where Selby has fled to. Her captors are employees of the real killer of Selby's wife who doesn't want to leave any loose ends. Of course Jane is able to escape and go on a cross-country chase to try to put Selby out of harm. Along the way she commits many crimes to avenge the crimes of the real killer and his cohorts and to try to keep Selby safe.

This was overall another good outing in the Whitefield saga. However, I didn't find it quite as compelling as some of the earlier novels. Selby was a convicted murderer and although he was unjustly accused, he did not seem as sympathetic as some of the earlier victims in the series. I would only mildly recommend this one but I do plan on reading the remaining books I have missed in the series so far.

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