Another excellent book by Joshua Hood. Burn Out has all the elements of a good thriller book. Tense situations, lots of action and twists right up to the end.
You are introduced to Jake Slade, a smokejumper. Someone who puts his life at risk jumping from planes in to fight forest fires. The description of what these men put their bodies through makes you appreciate what they are risking. This novel does them proud.
Slade is about to go on a jump when he gets a call from a former acquaintance. Busy, he lets it go to voicemail. But he is eventually pulled in. His former friend, Boone, needs help avoiding the cartel.
Slade is called on to find his friend, help him and avoid the cartel.
What happens is a chase through the forest, a standoff and more twists.
Hood's novels are written to pull you into the scenes. You feel the pain of the characters, you understand what they are going through and you are onsite through the action scenes.
It is hard to put down his novels, and Burn Out is exactly the same. You have to keep reading. You need to know what happens next. Chapters end right when you need to continue, so you do and then you've read 4 more chapters late at night.
I highly recommend this novel.
Thank you to NetGalley for an early copy.

The plot of this story with friendships and betrayals is interesting enough, but the real star of the story is the infernos that the characters subject themselves to . Lots of action and excerpts characters.

A good book that is a nice change of pace from the regular thrillers and mysteries I read. This one brings some friendships back to life in a life and death battle during fire season. I really enjoyed the fire fighters and smoke jumpers aspect of this book and how it added to the story and gave a different feel to the plot. Backstabbing and deceit all to earn some extra money. Slade and Boone are a good group to follow and I hope there are more coming from this author. The action keeps the book moving along and it ended up being a quick read because it was so good.

Fantastic read!!! I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book! It had great suspense, intrigue, action packed, murder, mystery, double crossing, a great who done it and some crazy twists and turns!! The story was very interesting and kept me glued to my kindle! I highly recommend reading this book! Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for sharing this book with me!! Can’t wait for more!!

After a serious game of rock, paper, scissors I got to read Joshua Hood’s Burn Out first! We are both fans of his writing. This stand-alone novel features Jake Slade, a guy who has seen plenty of trouble and some prison time, but wants to live out his dream, to be a member of an elite group of smoke jumpers and worth with the US Service. He made it. But during a firefight he misses a phone call from an old friend, Mikey Boone, and he can’t imagine that what Mikey needs is anything that he wants to be tangled up in. Slade is busy proving himself, fighting fires, saving lives and dealing with a big pain in a$$, Buck.
Interestingly enough, one of my nephews flies the jumpers in and sometimes flies the helicopter that drops water on the fires. So yes, I called him and talked to him about it. Hood clearly did his research on this one. Full of action and fire fights, dirty and clean federal agents and a drug cartel that will do anything in their power to keep things in their favor, thisbook is a fast read that is hard to put down. And for Hood fans, find the mention of the Staccato in here. (IYKYK)

Joshua Hood brings the heat in this awesome and riveting action-packed thriller that immersed readers in the dangerous shoes of smokejumpers and their mettle in fighting one of the most powerful forces of nature, fire. It’s in this immersive experience that he tackles a fast-paced mystery filled with twists and turns that culminate in a spectacular finale.

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