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Doc Richter’s Vigilante’s Handbook follows Bill Starr, a retired global IT executive whose Georgetown retirement changes after his goddaughter, medical student Jayden Jefferson, is brutally attacked following a Baylor football game. Jayden identifies the person she believes responsible, but conflicting evidence leaves investigators unable to make an arrest. Bill hires Austin private investigator Maggie Gates and turns to the cybersecurity expertise that once defined his career, using digital tools to search for information ordinary inquiries have missed. What begins as an effort to help Jayden soon places Bill in territory far beyond anything he expected from retirement, where information can expose crimes even when the justice system cannot reach the people behind them. As his search expands, Bill must decide what finding the truth is worth when the law cannot deliver the justice he believes is deserved.
Doc Richter’s Vigilante’s Handbook is an incredible thriller, and this fast-paced story is loaded with terrific cat-and-mouse scenes. I love how Bill moves through the Sturgis Rally, using the motorcycle crowds as cover as he slips magnetic trackers beneath bikes. Richter is fantastic with FBI agent Grace Wilson too, especially as she begins tracing anonymous crime tips back to their source after the trail suddenly goes quiet. As Bill’s hunt crosses the country, Richter turns those settings into assets, from the Great Salt Lake, where a wealthy-birder disguise hides surveillance beneath bitter winter wind, to Milwaukee, where icy Lake Michigan weather surrounds another watch on a suspect. All that said, the scene stealer is always Sam, the German shorthaired pointer who carries her battered pink pig everywhere and races after buzzing drones. Well written and wickedly inventive, readers who enjoy intelligent and uniquely angled vigilante thrillers will adore this.
