The Last Widow Pdf is a Crime Mystery Thriller Novel Karin Slaughter. New York Times bestselling author Karin Slaughter brings back Will Trent and Sara Linton in this superb and timely thriller full of devious twists, disturbing secrets, and shocking surprises you won’t see coming. This novel is the 9th book in the Will Trent Series.
The Last Widow Book Summary
A mysterious kidnapping
On a hot summer night, a scientist from the Centers for Disease Control is grabbed by unknown assailants in a shopping center parking lot. Vanished into thin air, the authorities are desperate to save the doctor.
A devastating explosion
One month later, the serenity of a sunny Sunday afternoon is shattered by the boom of a ground-shaking blast—followed by another seconds later. One of Atlanta’s busiest and most important neighborhood’s has been bombed—the location of Emory University, two major hospitals, the FBI headquarters, and the CDC.
A diabolical enemy
Medical examiner Sara Linton and her partner Will Trent, an investigator with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, rush to the scene—and into the heart of a deadly conspiracy that threatens to destroy thousands of innocent lives. When the assailants abduct Sara, Will goes undercover to save her and prevent a massacre—putting his own life on the line for the woman and the country he loves.
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Karin Slaughter Author Of The Last Widow Pdf is one of the world’s most popular and acclaimed storytellers. Published in 120 countries with more than 35 million copies sold across the globe, her 21 novels include the Grant County and Will Trent books, as well as the Edgar-nominated COP TOWN and the instant NYT bestselling stand-alone novels PRETTY GIRLS, THE GOOD DAUGHTER, and PIECES OF HER. Slaughter is the founder of the Save the Libraries project—a nonprofit organization established to support libraries and library programming. A native of Georgia, she lives in Atlanta. Her stand-alone novel PIECES OF HER is in development with Netflix, starring Toni Collette, and the Grant County and Will Trent series are in development for television. You Can connect with her on these social handles below.
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The Last Widow pdf, Paperback, Hardcover Book Information
- Publisher : William Morrow; First Edition (August 20, 2019)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 464 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0062858084
- ISBN-13 : 978-0062858085
- Item Weight : 1.35 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.1 x 1.8 x 9.1 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #285,223 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #7,601 in Police Procedurals (Books)
- #7,961 in Murder Thrillers
- #19,730 in Suspense Thrillers
- Customer Reviews: 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,943 ratings
The Last Widow Book Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars Slaughter never disappoints & The Last Widow is no exception
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 2, 2019
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Karin Slaughter can always be counted on to deliver a fast-paced, inventive, and often timely thriller. And her ninth installment in her popular series featuring Will Trent is no exception.
As the story opens, Will and Sara have taken their relationship to the next level. Although they are not officially living together, they spend all of their time at either Sara’s place or Will’s. Much to the consternation of Sara’s mother, Cathy, who has not yet updated her father, Eddie. A muggy August afternoon finds Will mowing the expansive lawn at the home of Sara’s aunt and anticipating lunch with the family. Suddenly, those plans are scuttled when one explosion is followed closely by another. Phone lines are jammed, preventing Will from getting an update from his colleagues so he runs toward the plume of smoke, with Sara close behind in her vehicle.
But they encounter a three-car vehicle collision which is highly suspicious. The men in the second and third vehicles are entirely too forthcoming with information, including their first names — Dwight, Hank, Merle, Vince, and Clint. Their pseudonyms are based upon country music legends Dwight Yoakam, Hank Williams, Merle Haggard, Vince Gill, and Clint Black. In one of the cars is none other than Michelle Spivey, the CDC scientist who was kidnapped two months prior. Michelle has clearly been abused, and appears broken. When the men learn that Sara is a doctor, they abduct her as her horrified mother watches and Will, having been brutally beaten, is unable to stop them.
In Slaughter’s latest tautly-constructed thriller, it soon becomes apparent that those men are part of a much larger, organized network of terrorists with a deadly agenda. transported, along with Michelle, to a remote location, Sara soon realizes that the man called Dwight is the leader — Dash, a mannered but dangerous fanatic devoted to delivering his “Message” — “excruciating, unforgiving death” — to the nation and its citizens. It soon becomes apparent that Dash and his colleagues are part of a paramilitary, white nationalist group known as the Invisible Patriot Army (IPA) whose activities the FBI has been monitoring online and elsewhere. Dash did not found the group but he is the shot-caller, and his leadership has brought focus and organization to the group. Are they somehow connected to Martin Novak, a bank robber who is being held in high-security, protective custody pending sentencing? And if so, how?
Will’s injuries are serious, but there is no time for him to recover. His mentor and boss, Amanda, is leading the investigation and giving direction to Faith, Will’s partner. Amanda and Faith’s mother were partners and best friends. Amanda literally saved Will from a life of crime when he was just eighteen years old. She pushed him to attend college and forced him to join the GBI. Amanda “made it possible for Will to be the kind of man who could be with a woman like Sara.” Indeed, the deep connections between Slaughter’s characters extend to Sara, their colleague and Faith’s best friend. A single parent of a twenty-year-old son and two-year-old daughter, Faith notes that, after her mother, Sara, a former pediatrician, is the person she most trusts to care for her young child.
Sara is held captive at a compound where Dash’s associates are engaging in repetitive drills designed to prepare them to breach a secure facility. The compound is populated by women, including Dash’s wife, Gwen, and young girls, all of whom dress in long white dresses. There are only very young boys there, but no male teenagers. And Dash presses Sara into service, claiming that many in the camp have fallen victim to a measles outbreak. Most of them are children and Sara must, of course, attempt to help them, but is baffled when they don’t respond to treatment. Is it really measles that they are suffering from . . . or something else? And is their mysterious illness somehow related to Dash’s plan?
Slaughter’s novels are always meticulously researched, bringing authenticity and credibility to her stories, and the frightening plot of <em>The Last Widow</em> could be a contemporary headline. Her books are not for the squeamish. The realistic story includes violence and heartbreaking deaths. The book’s pace is relentless, with each new revelation spurring her characters to act quickly as it becomes increasingly clear that Dash will set his plan in motion very soon. The interplay between the various agencies — GBI, FBI, and CDC — demonstrates the territoriality and lack of cooperation that can characterize the relationships between bureaucracies. As always, Slaughter’s dialogue is crisp, believable, and sometimes hilarious, emphasizing the deep bonds her characters share.
At the center of the story is the deepening relationship between Will and Sara. Their pasts have caused them to proceed cautiously and at the outset, Sara is, at times, frustrated by the difficulty Will has opening up and communicating his feelings to her. With Sara in grace danger, and Will feeling guilty that he was unable to prevent her abduction, he fully evaluates his feelings for her just as she does while confined for seemingly endless hours in the cabin at the compound where Dash is holding her. Their relationship, in Slaughter’s capable hands, is endearing, charming, and believable.
The Last Widow is a gripping, contemporary thriller that is likely to cause readers to pay more attention the next time there is a story in the headlines about racist cults. She convincingly demonstrates that we could all be in serious danger, and not realize it until it’s too late. Set aside time to read The Last Widow because once you start reading, you won’t be able to quit until you reach the satisfying conclusion.
3.0 out of 5 stars SLAUGHTER TAKES A WALK ON THE LEFT SIDE, PLEASE LET YOUR PERSONAL POLITICS SLIDE
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 13, 2019
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THE LAST WIDOW BY KARIN SLAUGHTER [WILL TRENT BOOK 9]
MY REVIEW THREE STARS***
I pre-ordered this novel and paid full retail price in order to read it as soon as it became available. That’s atypical behavior for me, since even if it is one of my very favorite authors, I still like to at least wait until the price drops down to $9.99 before I buy it. That said, THE LAST WIDOW is a book in retrospect that I would regret buying at any cost. It is a definite “borrow” not “buy”, and frankly, I wish I had never read it.
I would have to say that if I was stranded on a desert island and had the works of only one author to choose, it would be a toss up between Slaughter and Lee Child. I have read the entire Grant County series, all of the Will Trent books (a few of them twice), and I am a devoted fan of Karin Slaughter’s novels. The last Will Trent book, namely THE KEPT WOMAN was in many ways my favorite of the entire (at that time) eight book series. This ninth installment of the Will Trent Books was a big disappointment for me on every level. Worse still, it is likely a farewell to Karen Slaughter as well.
This book had Will and Sara physically separated from each other for all but a scant number of pages at the outset and at the conclusion. Admittedly, Slaughter is quite adept at shifting POVs between Sara and Will in this lengthy protracted storyline in which they are isolated from one another. It was a brief respite whenever the action in the novel would pivot back to what was happening with these two primary protagonists of the book. I do love “Mandy” (and also Will’s partner Faith Mitchell of course), but precious little time was devoted to them either when one considers page length of the novel and reading time. While Sara’s abduction by the IPA [Invisible Patriot Army] did serve to sharpen the pair’s awareness of their special bond with one another and to underscore the imperative to make it through the crisis the book seemed less about the two of them than it was about the “new white supremacist” villains who dominated the action and drove the plot.
The atmosphere of the novel was more like an action adventure than a psychological suspense thriller (or a medical thriller for that matter). I will allow that Slaughter did not disappoint when it came to the depth of information on certain toxins, including botulism. “Sara’s” POV on vaccines might be challenged in the medical community, though. The descriptive narrative of the mass deaths of the women and children at the camp were horrific in their intensity and detail, and that was “pure Slaughter” as well.
The fate of Spivey may have been seen as necessary to the plot but in my opinion the stark horror of the happenings were more than enough to underscore the sheer madness and mayhem for me. But a gay female scientist married to another woman, who have an adopted minority child, would necessarily have to be tortured and killed horrifically by a white male supremacist pig I guess. At least in the universe of this novel it was likely a given.
The emphasis that the author began to place on “paramilitary groups” made me apprehensive at first about where she was heading with this, and sure enough it didn’t take Slaughter long to launch the opinion that all of the states in the union were ignoring (“looking the other way”) when it came to these private militias. Undeterred, the author elucidated on the nature of the worst of these, as in the Posse Comitas “who believed that the government should be violently overthrown and returned to white Christian men”. I tried to reason with myself that this is not the first time that Slaughter has delved into hate groups, such as Lena’s involvement with a member of the neo-Nazis. However, this narrative felt different to me. It felt politically slanted to the left, particularly with lines like “The current climate at the Bureau dictates that white Christian males can’t be terrorists.” Is this saying that the current Republican Administration is dismissive of white extremist groups?
The novel at times reads like an educational seminar on the past history and current status of “white supremacist groups” in the United States of America. I’d like to see a Fact Check on the accuracy of the author’s statement that “A team at the Department of Homeland Security generated a paper on the white supremacist movement inside the military and they not only lost their funding, they were forced to retract their findings.” But then statistics abound to be wielded for any argument. It was purported that the “lone wolf” killers who target minorities are basically or primarily white supremacists, and worse that the largest majority of mass shootings were perpetrated by white extremists. The author made Islamic Terrorists and just plain nut jobs a small minority of the cases. Essentially this entire book was a showcase for the infamy and hate-fueled right wing extremists, i.e., how they are responsible for most of the despicable killings of innocent people and that our current administration is turning a blind eye to it all.
Well, obviously it would be self-evident to any sentient being that statistics can be found to support any argument or position. I could quote from “Mass Shootings In America Anatomy Of A Hyped Statistic” on Real Clear Politics but I won’t. A book review is no place for my political opinions.
I feel so sad that many of my beloved authors (Greg Iles and Robin Cook to name a couple I have loved for years) have chosen to follow Hollywood’s lead, and to use their novels as a venue for their personal political opinions and viewpoints. I won’t even turn the TV on to listen to politics any more. This is the most divisive climate in my lifetime. I would truly appreciate it if all authors would take a moment to consider that their loyal readers and devoted fans do not want to hear about their life style, their religion, or their politics. We want to read the thrillers that your unique creative genius makes possible. That is why we buy and pre-order your works.
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