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amothersmusings1's review
4.5
Lewis Hastings is the author of ‘The Seventh Wave Trilogy’ and ‘The Angel of Whitehall’ and this book “The Chemist” is the eagerly awaited follow up. It sees the return of Jack Cade and his team to fight a deadly nemesis, one who will stop at nothing to get what he wants. This time, it really is personal….
- “He calls himself ‘The Chemist’ and he’s determined to make anyone who’s crossed him pay. To him, death is just a game of chance and he’s stacked the odds in his favour. Can Jack Cade save those closest to him from the twisted plans of The Chemist?”-
From the very start, you realise you’re not reading about any old criminal. Romanian born, Constantin Nicolescu is one of the most menacing I have ever encountered since Hannibal Lector. The opening scene sets the book up perfectly for a tense, fast paced and very warped thriller. The whole story is plotted with military precision and without doubt you get an explosive bang for your buck with the paperback coming in at just over 550 pages long.
It’s evident that Lewis Hastings has his finger firmly on the crime writing pulse and his keyboard must smoke at times with the searing storylines he produces. Warped, dark, creepy and just a tiny (huge) bit maniacal, “The Chemist” was a book I wasn’t expecting to be so engrossing and addictive and even now, days on after finishing, I’m still thinking about Jason’s experiences at the hands of a wicked serial killer.
This is the fifth book in Lewis Hastings’ series, with many references to the previous stories. Although these would have been interesting to previously know about, it wasn’t essential - I read “The Chemist” as a stand-alone, it worked perfectly and has even encouraged me to go back and start the series from the beginning. It’s not often a miscreant comes along as vile, twisted and depraved like Constantin Nicolescu - he isn’t to be missed - and I doubt we’ll see another like him anytime soon!
#TheChemist - 4.5 stars
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