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Fear and assault threatens to destroy a city
Half of Treasure City is tranquil by a aroused travel gang. The other half is tranquil by fear. A rookie detective, Nate Richards, is bearing between a two.
Abyss, a puzzling travel squad moves into a hollow and people have started dying. Nate’s partner unexpected disappears and a squad is being targeted as a cause.
With his partner fighting for her life—the outcome of a vigilante’s bullet, domestic vigour from above, and time using out to find his blank girlfriend, Nate has to overcome a dark that has taken over a city and melancholy to devour his soul? Forced to quarrel to stay on a case, he has to work opposite his authority and a elements of a streets while perplexing to reason on to his faith that seems to make reduction and reduction clarity as sum unfold.
With dark flourishing and immorality ostensible to swell, will Nate have adequate time to solve a murder and learn a temperament of a new squad personality before his partner becomes a latest plant in a flourishing aroused total. Will he stoop to a vigour to get a pursuit finished by any means necessary, or will he turn partial of a problem and infer that there are No Humans Involved.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #185576 in eBooks
- Published on: 2011-03-12
- Released on: 2011-03-12
- Format: Kindle eBook
- Number of items: 1
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About a Author
Ray began his law coercion career with a Orange County Sheriff's Department in Orange County, California. After operative for a series of years in a limit confidence facility, he eliminated to unit operative along Orange County's seashore as good as a middle canyons and barrios. After 8 years he changed to Idaho and continued his law coercion career, portion as an instructor for a Idaho POST Council. Ray was initial consecrated into a method while vital in Orange County and now serves as a Associate Pastor in his home church in Nampa, Idaho. A former United States Marine, he is a open speaker, communicating to groups of all sizes on a topics of village and personal safety. Since 1999 Ray has been a primary instructor for a Idaho POST Academy - Police Training Institution for Idaho- instructing on subjects of Arrest Control, Cultural Diversity and for a final 5 years exclusively on a subject of Instructor Development, where he teaches other officers to be POST approved instructors. He is now portion as a lead sex crimes questioner for a group where he works. He has been married to a same lady for 27 years and has 3 children; dual sons and a daughter. Ray lives with his family in Idaho.
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7 of 7 people found a following examination helpful.
An Entertaining and Thoughtful Story Exploring Human Values and a Value of Humans
By T. L. Cooper
Ray Ellis introduces readers to Detective Nathan (Nate) Richards in his entrance military procedural, NHI: No Humans Involved. Nate's faith is tested on mixed levels as he investigates a murder of a military officer, a teenager, and a indirect slaughters of squad members. When his partner is shot while on a spoliation call, Nate's faith is serve tested. Nate's best friend, Amber, finds herself in harm's way, and Nate struggles to let a examination ensue according to departmental policy. Using his endless believe and knowledge as a military detective, Ellis creates a military procedural in that a inquisitive techniques and a business politics are utterly realistic. NHI will lift a reader into a storyline and squeeze reason until a final page even when a reader disagrees with a character's choice. Ellis creates a expel of characters with varying beliefs and ethics who are well-rounded and interesting. He avoids formulating caricatures of "good" and "evil" by exploring a suspicion that all people have a intensity for good and a intensity for bad in them. In NHI, Ellis imparts a summary of wish and acceptance by his characters, their trials, and their faith though apropos preachy.
5 of 5 people found a following examination helpful.
Fairly decent entrance novel~!!
By Jennifer Chatham
N. H. I.: No Humans Involved is a entrance Christian murder poser novel from author Ray Ellis.
Nate Richards is a rookie investigator in Treasure City, who has clever eremite philosophy and he uses his instincts and his faith in a Lord, to solve his crimes. Many in a business finds his methods peculiar though they grudgingly give their honour to him, for he does his pursuit well.
When a travel squad called, Abyss, adult their stakes in a diversion and start to control roughly half of Treasure City, Nate contingency understanding with a fear that is flourishing in a streets. After he investigates a deaths of a associate military officer and a immature person, a travel squad members start to die in countless numbers and Nate is hard-pressed to keep his faith while elucidate a case. Thinking that Abyss was during a base of all a disharmony function on a streets, Nate shortly comes to comprehend that all he has famous isn't what it appears to be.
With a fear flourishing stronger any day, Nate starts to doubt all that he knows and wonders if he has a strength to solve a case. When his best friend/girlfriend, Amber, goes missing, Nate, anticipating it tough to follow a manners and red tape, contingency use all of his wits to save a one he loves, while maintaining his faith, his firmness and his job.
For a entrance murder poser we was utterly tender with a volume of amour Ray Ellis was means to incur. we found a initial few chapters to be a bit unbending and a upsurge was somehow lacking though it didn't take prolonged for a tract to find itself and a universe of Treasure City unfolded.
Though there was a outrageous importance on Nate's Christian viewpoints, we didn't find it overly invasive or preachy, and suspicion it matched Nate's character, as good as, those in his evident circle.
I utterly enjoyed a torment building via a novel, we could roughly feel yourself racing beside Nate in elucidate a crimes and wishing we could scream during him when we figured it out before him. The comedy in some situations unequivocally worked that took a corner off a suspense, in sequence to replenish it again in a subsequent page or two.
I did find some of a characters concerned unbelievable, they were roughly childish in their proceed to events that they found themselves in, well, not childish, some-more naive. As well, some of a actions of a characters weren't wise of a situation, and this influenced my altogether delight of a story. The tract is amazing; a a characters that miss any genuine depth, though holding into comment that this is a entrance author, we am certain Ray Ellis' characters will usually rise with time and piece and turn something utterly amazing! If we like a good murder mystery, afterwards we will really suffer this one!
5 of 5 people found a following examination helpful.
Not What we expected
By Marketing Diva
This is a Christian formed fiction. There is zero wrong with that though it should be labeled as such. we found a impression growth of some to be intensely genuine and we could not tell was this since a author was perplexing to have his categorical characters travel with Jesus or he lacked a ability to rise entirely burning out characters.
The story was decent though a lot of times we found myself observant this is only crazy " because would leave a protected residence after we have been kidnapped and scarcely raped to go see your co-workers' we am only observant .
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