Bob Hamer

Dear Readers,

The one type of book I get asked about the most is 'guy' books. In the Christian market they were sadly somewhat lacking for many years.  If you didn't like history or westerns you were completely out of luck.  

That started to change a few years ago.  It was a slow change as some of the ones that were coming out were just a bit cheesy, but there have been some really good stories.  Steven James, Joel Rosenberg, Ted Dekker, to name a few that have written books that seemed to have the guy reader in mind.

Maybe one of the fastest growing genres in Christian fiction right now is the spy novels.  I haven't done any real research on it, but to me it seems that more and more publishing houses are presenting those type of books.  It probably started with the end times and how you can tie the end of the world in with the hero racing to stop some evil plot.  Those are good, but not exactly what I and most readers were looking for. 

 

Targets Down by Bob Hamer demonstrates the new type of book that is coming out now.  Spy novels that have the hero racing to save the world without it having anything to do with the end times.  Yes I know this genre has been out for many years, but they seem to be getting better and better at it than before. 

Targets Down is actually the second in the Matt Hogan series.  Enemy Among Us is book number one.  I did not get to read book one, but if I get a chance I would like to.   

Matt goes undercover to figure out who is responsible for the shooting of a wife of a fellow agent and the death of a local pastor.  His investigation leads him to the dark underside of life in Hollywood and Los Angeles.  Drug and human trafficing, Russian mafia and a group of Neo-Nazis make this undercover job harder than any he has been on before. 

Matt needs to be able to balance his family life and his job, which he loves.  He is one of the best, but is his job the best thing for his relationship with his wife?  He may have to decide soon.

I liked this book for its fast pace and how it didn't all always fit neatly into the quick-answer book.  Bob does a good job of leading us down paths where we think are going one way, but actually it's just a smoke screen. 

Ok that is enough of that, I don't want to give away too many clues or you will be able to figure it all out before you even get into the book.  That would be no fun what so ever.  So if you are looking for a good 'spy' novel or a good book for that guy in your life, I strongly recommend Targets Down.

Happy Reading