LEVON’S HUNT
By Chuck Dixon
Wold Pack Publishing
304 pages
“Levon’s Hunt” is the eighth entry in writer Chuck Dixon’s Levon Cade series. The stories revolve around a Marine Veteran living in rural Alabama with his daughters, one adopted. He’s a widower, having lost his wife to cancer. Like most returning combat veterans, Cade just wants to go back to living an everyday life with his family and be left alone. Whereas trouble has a way of regularly intruding as it did in the previous chapter, “Levon’s Home” wherein Cade uncovered a sophisticated underground network of pedophiles. They were operating out of back woods homes where kidnapped boys and girls were kept as sex slaves.
This new book picks up with Cade using the intel he captured from the house he raided in the previous novel’s action-packed finale. Now, with this newly acquired data, he starts to climb up the chain of sickos. He targets molesters posing as one of them via their dark websites. From those he traps, he discovers their members include high-ranking officials in both local and state governments throughout the country. So powerful are these men, they include federal police officials, judges, and elected congressmen and senators. It is a foul network that honest cops cannot effectively battle as their hands are tied in legal red tape allowing the guilty to skate away free and clear.
There are several subplots within the bigger picture ala Cade finding another Afghan vet living up in the hills near his home and he befriends him. Then there’s the female U.S. Marshal investigating the dead bodies he leaves behind. She soon suspects Cade is involved, but before she can fully pursue her hunch, the FBI swoops in and takes charge of the investigation thus confirming her own suspicions regarding corrupt bigwigs.
Chuck Dixon cut his writing teeth on both Batman and the Punisher, ergo he knows his way around the moral tightwire of vigilantes. What makes them tick? In Levon Cade’s case, it’s a deeply rooted love of country and family. He’s a patriot who will fight to protect the innocent and see justice done. Even if he has to do it alone. If you like action-packed thrillers with believable heroes and villains, you have to meet Levon Cade. He’s a character you will not soon forget.
