This is one of those books where you’re like “that is not a normal human reaction” about fifteen times. Alex is the main character, and we start out learning about his perfect family. He loves his wife and would never lie to her. He spends the next 88% of the book blatantly lying to her. Situations arise where it would be easy and preferable to tell the truth. Alex lies. In the first few chapters, they’re on service trip in Mexico, and his father-in-law (his wife’s father) Joe gets kidnapped. Alex goes back to where they’re staying in Mexico and does not immediately tell his wife or his mother-in-law that Joe has been kidnapped.
He spends the remainder of the book trying to figure out who kidnapped Joe and why. But he does this almost entirely by himself, or with the help of a former CIA agent who he randomly meets (or was friends with? I can’t remember) and just has access to all his former resources.
I did read the entire book to see how it turned out, but for the life of me I cannot remember what actually happened. That’s not a good thing. I do remember that he spent a lot of time trying to figure out Joe’s mysterious past, which included tons of lying to his wife and family. Like flying to a different state and saying it’s for “work” even though his father in law was murdered and he wasn’t supposed to be working.
A bunch of reviews I read on Goodreads said Mr. Zunker’s David Adams series is actually good though. We’ll see. 2.5 stars.