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Reviewed by Lucinda E Clarke for Readers' Favorite
There are strong warnings at the beginning of Oath of the Osprey by Lee Davis Jr., and it is indeed a book for adults. When David Cooper dies while trying to rescue a kidnapped girl, he passes on a message to his younger brother Doug to carry on the mission. As children, they had watched an osprey catch and devour food, impressed with its sheer ruthlessness, determination, and strength. Doug is a professor at a Florida university and unsuited to detective work or indeed violence, but he will not let his late brother die in vain. He takes on the task, together with his girlfriend V, and they track down the villains. Unknown to them, they are facing a particularly vicious branch of the Russian Mafia that will stop at nothing to achieve their goals. This leads to many violent confrontations, and the rescue begins to look impossible. Neither Doug nor V expected the task to escalate into a life-and-death struggle.
Oath of the Osprey by Lee Davis Jr. begins with an exciting chase as David Cooper flees from the Russian mob. I had mixed feelings about Doug, his younger brother, who follows in trying to rescue a young girl. One moment he appears to be a typical university professor; the next he transforms into a vicious killer. He has a few very loyal friends, who are also slightly weird and wild, and plan to help him. Other characters were easier to warm to: Sophia, the sister-in-law, and her daughter Hannah, and even one of the abductors who works magic in a realistic Stockholm syndrome scenario. An interesting book on many levels, but beware of bad language, gay themes, and BDSM scenes, which some readers may not like
