Slow to start, but stick with it. This book is a page turner with heart.
I really liked this book, the writing is spot on course throughout, there is something happening on every page and every chapter so the pages turn fast and you can't put it down.
This story is eerily similar to the book and movie "The Desperate Hours" based on the novel and play by Joseph Hayes, which in turn was inspired by an actual event, The Desperate Hours is the prototypical "family-trapped-by-criminals" drama. Escaped convicts Humphrey Bogart, Robert Middleton and Dewey Martin, seeking an appropriate hideout until they can make contact with their money supply, deliberately choose the suburban home of Fredric March and his family. The cold-blooded Bogart wants no trouble with the police, and he knows he can cower a family with children into cooperating with him. The Reckoning is oddly coincidental in so many many ways.
