Parting Shot is a shot of adrenaline. Its a bullet that rotates wildly till it finds its target - deep in the readers imagination.
Local television reporter Sam Stevens is consumed by his failing marriage and, more than that, by the psychological harm his wife is doing to their ten-year-old son.
As Sam covers a once-in-a-lifetime story - one that has turned Webster County into bedlam but is at last providing Sam with an opportunity for media stardom - he suddenly sees an even better chance - to solve his personal problems forever.
But theres another player thrust into the national spotlight along with Sam.
Its Sheriff Billy Wyatt, whos in way over his head.
The FBI is breathing down his neck, and the national press highlights his every bungle.
Hes confronting a madman - and his own limits.
Can he outsmart either?
Jonathan Stone has woven a story readers assuredly will not expect. In whirlwind action and hurricane prose that echo the best of James Patterson and Harlan Coben, Stone is in top form here, delivering a tale about the unchecked power of the media and the unreasonable passions of fatherhood - with a payoff that will stun and startle, yet make perfect sense.