Time to Hunt (Pierce Hunt Series #3)

by Simon Gervais

Overview

In the latest addition to the acclaimed Pierce Hunt series, Hunt races across Europe to stop an ever-changing threat to national security before it’s too late to save his country or his friends.

When the CIA calls on former Army Ranger Pierce Hunt to find a missing operative and friend, the last thing he wants to do is leave the peace of home and family behind. But there’s more to this mission than meets the eye, and Hunt knows he has no choice but to risk everything to save his friend and protect his country.

Hunt’s target is Jorge Ramirez, who allegedly has information that poses a threat to the national security of the United States. As Hunt tracks Ramirez in Switzerland, he learns that someone close to his operation has betrayed the CIA. His team is attacked, and not everyone makes it out alive.

Facing betrayal on an international scale, Hunt doesn’t know who to trust. The rules of engagement have changed, and the body count is rising. Will he find out the truth in time, or will this be Hunt’s final mission?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781542020824
Publisher:	Amazon Publishing
Publication date:	11/10/2020
Series:	Pierce Hunt Series , #3
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	784,225
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Simon Gervais was born in Montréal, Québec. He joined the Canadian military as an infantry officer and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in 1997. In 2001, he was recruited by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and became a federal agent. His first posting was in Toronto, where he served as a drug investigator. During this time, he worked on many international drug-related cases in close collaboration with his American colleagues from the DEA. His career switched gears in 2004, and he was placed with a federal antiterrorism unit based in the Ottawa region. During the following years, he was deployed in several European and Middle Eastern countries. In 2009, he became a close-protection specialist tasked with guarding foreign heads of state visiting Canada. He served on the protection details of Queen Elizabeth II, US president Barack Obama, and Chinese president Hu Jintao, among others. Gervais lives in Ottawa with his wife and two children.

Editorial Reviews

09/07/2020

Early in Gervais’s exciting if uneven third Pierce Hunt thriller (after 2019’s Trained to Hunt), Dorothy Triggs, the deputy director of the CIA’s Directorate of Operations and her son, Max Oswald, her right-hand man in the directorate, pay an unannounced call on former DEA agent Hunt in the Bahamas, where he’s living the easy life with his girlfriend and 16-year-old daughter. Triggs wants Hunt to find his pal Charlie Henican, who has gone missing in Turkey while there to assassinate narco-terrorist Jorge Ramirez. Hunt agrees, but after Triggs and Max leave Hunt’s house, gunmen ambush their car in a kidnapping attempt. Triggs is wounded and Max escapes, though initially his mother thinks he’s been killed. Hunt is taken off the Henican case and sent to Switzerland, where Ramirez is now, to complete the job his friend started. Meanwhile, Hunt must contend with another major bad guy, who has a highly implausible motive for committing his evil deeds. The abundance of action compensates for some head-scratching plot confusion. Gervais consistently entertains, but occasionally baffles. Agent: Eric Myers, Myers Literary Management. (Nov.)

Publishers Weekly

An action-packed thrill ride with plot twists around nearly every curve.” —Kirkus Reviews

“Gervais consistently entertains.” —Publishers Weekly

“Gervais weaves both villainous story lines together with action, intrigue, and suspense.” —Mystery & Suspense Magazine

From the Publisher

2020-08-19
A maverick agent battles duplicity on all sides in a personal rescue mission.

In Istanbul, American Charlie Henican is seized by half a dozen men who call him an assassin. Twelve hours later, CIA deputy director Dorothy Triggs strategizes in the Bahamas with Max Oswald, her son and “right-hand man” about ways to convince Pierce Hunt to rescue Henican, his close friend. Hunt is vacationing there with his lover, Anna Garcia, who has shut down the Garcia crime syndicate, to which she’s the heiress. Though Hunt now works for the Drug Enforcement Administration, Triggs is confident that his history with Henican in Gaza will secure his involvement. Her attempt to convince Hunt goes badly, and later Triggs and Max are ambushed and nearly killed. A video confirms that Henican is alive, held by a group called the Maroon Berets, who accuse him of trying to kill the president of Turkey. Triggs declares the rescue of Henican too sensitive for Hunt’s renegade style and, in a meeting at Langley, convinces him to instead accompany veteran agent Harriet Jacobs on a mission to take out Venezuelan strongman Jorge Ramirez, who’ll be in Switzerland. Ramirez, meanwhile, is eager to align himself with the Maroon Berets and supplies them with intel on Venezuela’s new president, Col. Arteaga, whom the CIA has dubbed “Queen Bee.” Ramirez is surprised to learn that he’s to meet CIA operative Aram Diljen, a possible mole. Concealed at the meeting, Hunt and Jacobs receive an order at the last minute to kill Diljen instead. Who can the righteous Hunt trust?

Despite some plot holes and cardboard characters, an action-packed thrill ride with plot twists around nearly every curve.

Kirkus Reviews