She was one of the FBI's top agents until she became the nation's most-wanted fugitive. Now Jane Hawk may be all that stands between a free nation and its enslavement by a powerful secret society's terrifying mind-control technology. She couldn't save her husband, or the others whose lives have been destroyed, but equipped with superior tactical and survival skills-and the fury born of a broken heart and a hunger for justice-Jane has struck major blows against the insidious cabal.
But Jane's enemies are about to hit back hard. If their best operatives can't outrun her, they mean to bring her running to them, using her five-year-old son as bait. Jane knows there's no underestimating their capabilities, but she must battle her way back across the country to the remote shelter where her boy is safely hidden . . . for now.
As she moves resolutely forward, new threats begin to emerge: a growing number of brain-altered victims driven hopelessly, violently insane. With the madness spreading like a virus, the war between Jane and her enemies will become a fight for all their lives-against the lethal terror unleashed from behind the forbidden door.
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AT FIRST THE BREEZE WAS NO MORE THAN A LONG sigh, breathing through the Texas high country as though expressing some sadness attendant to Nature herself. 1
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(@HarperCollinsUK, 27 December 2018, ebook, 400 pages, bought from @AmazonKindle)
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I've now read all of the Jane Hawk books, though not in the right order. I will re-read the series at some point as I can't remember what happens in the last book which I got an ARC for. Thankfully, The Crooked Staircase was still fresh in my mind when I read this book as this picks right up where the last book finished, with Jane desperate to get to her son and Cornell but aware she can't just rush to him in case she's followed and will need to plan, prepare and take her time no mater how painful this is. Like the other books in the series and the author's books in general, The Forbidden Door is fast paced, full of short intense chapters so it fairly rattles along. The chapters move between what's happening with Jane to the POV of various Arcadian's who are hunting her, her son, her parents and anyone who stands with Jane. I enjoy books that use this structure and Koontz is a master of his craft. The Forbidden Door is terrific.
