Book Review – Vengeance Wears Black by Seumas Gallacher

I met Seumas Gallacher online. No, not that way, but as a fellow blogger. His irrepressible personality shines through his posts and as a result, I had to read one of his books. I chose Vengeance Wears Black, the second in his series – nothing like jumping straight in – but it reads nicely as a stand-alone, without the first book needed. One of my own rules for a good series.

Vengeance Wears Black is definitely a man’s thriller. Written with spare prose, but enough to give you a good idea of the characters and their emotions, the book provides lots of action with hardly a pause for breath. Not to say that a woman reader wouldn’t enjoy it — there are lots of handsome characters.

The story: It begins spectacularly, when a truck load of women from Eastern Europe being smuggled to England for ‘a better life’ is…