I always enjoy Jeffrey Deaver's books, although this is the first I have read to feature Colter Shaw.

I don't think my enjoyment of the book suffered for not having read the first three instalments in the series. The story was quite fast-paced, and I liked how events took some turns on the way to the conclusion.

I think I'll go back and find out what Mr Shaw got up to before our paths crossed!

Thanks to the author, HarperCollins UK and NetGalley for the eARC of this book.

This was highly enjoyable and inventive. I’m a big fan of Jeffery Deaver and this latest story does not disappoint. It was extremely fast paced and I would recommend this to anyone who likes an excellent thriller.

Another great book by Jeffery Deaver featuring the wonderful Colter Shaw character. End to end gripping stuff with a surprising twist at the end. Highly recommended.

Received arc from Harper Collins and Netgalley for honest read and review,this review is my own personal experience.
This the fourth in a wonderful series about Colter Shaw from Jeffery Deaver.
I have been a fan of Jeffery for a winless he writes such great series with wonderful characters. And Colter is no different.
He works for rewards by finding people.This time he is hired to find someone,Allison on the run from her ex husband Jon . It twists and it turns as you expect from Jeffery and you get a feel of all the characters.
Another brilliant book from Mr Deaver.

6/10

Not a bad book but it doesn't really add anything that hasn't been seen before in this series and if you know the author then you're onguard for some twists and turns second guessing all the signposts. Saying that, it is still a good read and the pages flow quickly as is usual for his books.

The start was a little slow and didn't really get the pace going but things started to pick up the more I read. Shaw is an interesting character trying to work out the percentages to gain the upper hand in situations, but as I mentioned this isn't new and didn't really stand out as much as before.

The plot was good when it got going and deeper into it. There were a few surprising moments as expected but nothing felt like the rug had been pulled from under me. A few times I felt there was a bit too much jargan which went over my head which dented the pacing in parts but these are minor quibbles. I only gave it this rating due to high expectations for this author but this wasn't a bad book at all, just not one of his best. I would still be keen to read more about Colter and his escpaeds in the future.

Thanks to NetGalley for providing the book in exchange for a review.

Another classic Deaver; you know what you’re going to get and he never disappoints. Using his long-learned and honed survivalist skills, Colter has to find and protect a family who are caught in the crosshairs of some professional assassins. The new book in the Colter Shaw series is quick and easy to read and above all highly enjoyable.

Not my first Colter Shaw book and not my last either.
Nice fast-paced thriller that keeps you interested throughout and gives you more of the same (reward-hunt scenario) as the previous books but a story that's different enough to keep the series readers happy too.
Looking forward to number 5!
Many thanks for the ARC

Colter shaw is back and I definitely recommend this series, they don’t even need to be read in sequence as Shaw is a lone wolf so not too much to figure on background to enjoy this current book.
The idea of this lone wolf working as a “reward seeker” means he is always moving and has many skills to meet the needs of his search. After 4 books I still feel like I need to know more about our main character to be completely won over but I enjoy the series and the individual “cases” Deaver has put forward

This is the fourth instalment in Jeffery Deaver's Colter Shaw series and I’ve read one other book in this series as well as some of the author's other work. This reads well as a stand-alone, I believe. Shaw finds himself in Ferrington in the America Midwest in this fast paced read. With its twisting plotline, the reader is taken down a road only to find it’s a red herring.

Shaw, a reward Seeker and survivalist is hired by a corporate CEO to find Allison Parker after she goes on the run with her teenage daughter, Hannah. An exciting read with dangers lurking in every corner. Very cleverly written and thoroughly engrossing.

I received a complimentary copy of this novel at my request from HarperCollins via NetGalley and this review is my unbiased opinion.

As usual, in the Colter Shaw series, the story whips from one event to another at breakneck speed. A great read and I would highly recommend this Jeffrey Deaver character.

It's great to meet Colter Shaw again. The Restless Man sorted out his family problems - which involved murderous corporate goons trying to kill him - and is back here doing what he likes most, moving along, saving the innocent and claiming reward money (when he remembers to actually cash the cheques, that is). In Hunting Time and so he's rolled into the industrial town of Ferrington in his mobile home. But this time he may be taking on more than he realises.

Ferrington is a shabby, rust-belt town - it can't even afford an adequate police department anymore - with a proud manufacturing past, plenty of decaying factories, and a poisoned river. A new startup promises to bring jobs with its small modular nuclear reactors, but its IP is being targeted by sinister forces and then the star engineer disappears. Can Colter Shaw help, please?

What follows is an entertainingly wild chase through the woods featuring gangsters, a vengeful ex, crooked cops and a particularly sinister pair of "triggermen" who have designs on more that Allison Parker and her teenage daughter Hannah's lives. As ever, Shaw's survival skills are indispensable, the more so as modern conveniences - guns, food, shelter - are stripped away. However Hunting Time is in many respects a more pared down story than previous Colter Shaw novels. Shaw is not, directly, trying to solve a complex mystery. (Though he does do that towards the end, and when he does you'll see things in a new light, but that's almost incidental). Rather he has simple goals - finding and rescuing the two women.

That made Hunting Time, for me, a very focussed story, a very pacy and entertaining story. There is though more to it - the delicate exploration of the Parker family and especially the mother-daughter relationship, Shaw's allowing himself to become romantically involved again, and the grim background of the anti-hero, Jon Merritt, are all done with a great deal of humanity and sympathy. That more than makes up for a couple of late, shock revelations which were perhaps just a shade unlikely.

The story is told form several different viewpoints - Shaw himself, the two triggermen, Allison, and Jon. Each has part of the truth, but the pieces don't seem to fit together and what you understand will be affected by who you trust. With plenty of red herrings and some of the characters basically conflicted about what's happening, it's very hard to work out who to trust at all.

All that, and hints that Shaw may be on the fringes of a wider, international plot trading in industrial secrets (perhaps something that Deaver will tell us more about in a future book) make this a must-read for the his fans.

A brilliantly suspenseful thriller, survival specialist Colter Shaw is hired to track down nuclear scientist Allison Parker and her teenage daughter Hannah, who have fled into the woods to evade her newly released ex-husband. Two brutal hitmen are also on her trail. Action, murder and mayhem collide in this enjoyable crime novel.

Enjoyed this novel following Colter Shaw as he s tasked with finding the ex wife and daughter who have gone on the run after her vengeful ex policeman husband comes looking for them when he's released from prison early.

Nice twist in the storyline that I didn't see coming!

I received this book from netgalley in return for a honest review.

I didn’t realise I’ve missed two books in this series featuring Colter Shaw. This works very well as a stand alone and as may be expected from Deaver, it’s fast paced and full of the unexpected. He’s a truly gifted writer; he makes the art of writing appear so easy. The characters feel like real people, the dialogue is snappy and even with all the excitement, the plotting remains within the realms of plausible.

In this outing he’s looking for a mother and daughter on the run. But the mother is a intent they won’t be found and the ways in which she throws off those in pursuit are mind blowing. It’s everything I hope for in a thriller and there are so many cliff hangers at the end of chapters, you just keep reading to see what happens next. Just brilliant escapist storytelling. Loved it.

My thanks to the publisher for a review copy via Netgalley.

Thank you NetGalley for the opportunity to read Jeffrey Deaver's latest offering.
Many reviewers have given the synopsis so I will not repeat the obvious. Suffice to say this started slowly.....gathered reasonable pace and then finished very abruptly. It was as if the best bits were concentrated at the end of the novel and the reader has to endure until the finale.

I thoroughly enjoyed this thriller!! Colter Shaw is a great character and the plot is exciting and engaging. I'm not really a fan of the current popularity of 'twists' as some of them are ridiculous and completely unbelievable, but in this case I didn't expect it and it added to the story.

This was really slow going for quite some time and I was about to give up when the female characters were introduced and I was hooked. This is apparently one of a series of Colter Shaw novels but works well as a stand alone.
This is at times particularly chilling, has plenty of twists and turns and even made me pretty emotional at one point.

I have enjoyed reading the other Colter Shaw stories so I was excited to read number 4 in the series. The story started very slowly and I was close to giving up but I am glad I persisted as it eventually picked up the pace, turning into a classic Jeffery Deaver with plenty of twists and turns leading up to a surprise ending. ll. In this story Shaw is initially hired too retrieve a stolen piece of advanced technology, but when Alison Parker, the nuclear engineer behind the invention, goes into hiding with her daughter, Hannah, Shaw is asked to find Alison before her ex-jailbird husband who is hell-bent on killing her. An added complication is that the husband is an ex-cop decorated for bravery and his former colleagues are reluctant to lend Shaw a hand. I would recommend this book to all Deaver fans and recommend the stick with it through the slow beginning.

Allison Parker and her daughter are on the run as her abusive husband an ex-cop has been released from jail where she put him and he did threaten to kill her, so she learnt a few tricks from him during their marriage and one was how to disappear.
Colter Shaw finds people and is good at it whether they are bail jumpers, lost or missing and Allison's boss hires him to find her and keep her safe.
It took a while as she is clever but eventually, he does find her and explains who he is and helps her to get to safety which is no easy task as already there are bounty hunters waiting to kill her and Colter Shaw has been bought up as like a pioneer schooled at home and his father teaching him the skills mainly outdoor life and generally how to survive.
There are a few twists and turns and certainly a curve ball but that is all I'm giving away.
There is one bugbear every so often you get Colter Shaw reminders of his father's survival skills that pop up, most annoying at times, but a good read nonetheless.

Hunting Time is the fourth instalment in the Colter Shaw, reward seeker, series and have become a fan of Jeffery's books when Netgalley introduced me to the first in the series and now I just cant get enough of them. In addition to the main books in this series there are additionally short stories available on kindle etc which are well worth a read too.

in this book "Allison Parker goes the run with her teenage daughter, Hannah. Colter Shaw has been hired by her eccentric boss, entrepreneur Marty Harmon, to find and protect her. Though he's an expert at tracking missing persons - even those who don't wish to be found- Shaw has met his match in Allison, who brings all her skills as a brilliant engineer designing revolutionary technology to the game of evading detection.."

Its a very exciting page turner with lots of action, adventure, twists and turns, possibly not my favourite Colter Shaw if I'm completely honest, I still loved every minute. Although this is the fourth book, they don't refer to much of the previous story and can, in my opinion, be read in any order.

Thank you to HarperCollins UK HarperFiction for the opportunity to read and review an advance copy this book.