Kill Zone, Loren D. Estleman
Kill Zone, Loren D. Estleman
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Kill Zone

Author: Loren D. Estleman

Narrator: Justin Price

Unabridged: 7 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/29/2023


Synopsis

A remarkable new antihero, mob hit man Peter Macklin must end a hostage crisis on a tour boat in Lake Erie

Siegfried, a terrorist group made up of a killer, a bassist, an ex-marine, a demolitions expert, a Black Panther, a national guardsman, and a couple of spoiled teenagers, is about to become Detroit's worst nightmare. The motley gang boards a river cruise boat armed with M16s and enough explosives to burn the city down. They have eight hundred hostages, and if they don't get what they want, Siegfried will kill every soul aboard.

Rescue is impossible. No cop could get on the boat. The only man with the skills for the job is Peter Macklin, a professional killer with ties to the local mob. Hired by the FBI bureau chief to sneak aboard the ship and destroy Siegfried from the inside out, Macklin will find killers in front of him—and another on his tail.

Set in Detroit, this fast-paced thriller introduces another great series from the three-time Shamus Award–winning author of the Amos Walker Mysteries.

Contains mature themes.

About Loren D. Estleman

Loren D. Estleman is the author of more than eighty novels, including the Amos Walker, Page Murdock, and Peter Macklin series. The winner of four Shamus Awards, five Spur Awards, and three Western Heritage Awards, he lives in Central Michigan with his wife, author Deborah Morgan.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill on June 04, 2018

Kill Zone by American author Loren D. Estleman is his first book in his Peter Macklin mystery / thriller series. Macklin is a hit-man for the Michigan mob. In this first book a tour boat on Lake Erie is hijacked by a group called the Ziegfrieds. The FBI is struggling to find a way to save the people......more

Goodreads review by Andria on August 08, 2024

Not a bad mystery, but certainly not my favorite detective. This one was a bit of an antihero, and utterly predictable (at least for me and that's because I read a LOT of mysteries). The writing was good, although I wasn't particularly interested in any of the characters. The plot was interesting, h......more

Goodreads review by Mikel on July 31, 2023

I wanted to read something local and saw that Kill Zone was on Libby and is a hostage situation on a Boblo boat. I've read Estleman before and Kill Zone in tone does not differ much from his other novels. What is different is the "hero" of the novel, Peter Macklin, a hit man that is given his next h......more

Goodreads review by Eric_W on July 01, 2010

I ran across this series starring Peter Macklin while looking at an Estleman bibliography. Such a multi-faceted/talented author who manages to write excellent, well-written stories in multiple genres: detective, western, and thriller. Apparently this was the first in a series of Macklin novels. While......more

Goodreads review by SuperWendy on June 21, 2024

Published in 1984 this one was a major trip down Nostalgia Lane. Half-baked terrorists hijack a Boblo Island boat (!) in Detroit and just so happens a government bureaucrat's daughter is on board - so the FBI calls a locked-up mobster for help and said mobster (looking to get his in the end because......more