Hunting Evil

Chris Carter has the chilling ability to keep you turning the pages even when you are terrified about what happens next. Poor Hunter has to find Lucien again after having caught him 3 years previously!! The evil just oozes out of Lucien and is poured all over Hunter, who not only has to fight for his sanity, but find a way to capture Lucien yet again. Thrilling, chilling and un-put-down able!!!!!

Absolutely the best book to date, this author keeps smashing these stories out like tainted nightmares that keep us up & reading with the lights on, or off, if your brave enough!

This was absolutely the best book yet, I couldn't put it down.

The headline says it all...RIVETING

Brilliant read, as are all his books. Look forward to the next one.

I’m a fan of all the Robert Hunter books and this one definitely did not disappoint.

I can’t get enough of the Robert Hunter series. This is one of the best!!

Chris Carter's books suck you in from the very first page, and this one is no different! Huge fan of his books and this did not disappoint! 100% recommend

I was really looking forward to reading this. The cover suggests it's as "addictive as a crime TV box-set" but I was sadly disappointed from the off. And here's why.The book is overly descriptive. To the point that things are mentioned in one paragraph, repeated in the next paragraph, then described again in dialogue in the next. There were many instances where the middle paragraph (see the first page of chapter 72 for an excellent example) expanding on the first could have been omitted during the editing phase and wouldn't have affected the next paragraph in any way.The constant information dumping which is completely unnecessary for crime readers who know exactly what they're getting without the jargon explained at length afterwards was unnecessary. We're told constantly how evil Lucien is, but only shown it a few times during some great scenes where he is an expert on human anatomy, and I never got any proof he was any worse than any other serial killer. Lucien is also a pantomime villain, able to alter his entire appearance, accent, and mannerisms at will (an actor) to evade police. He apparently hypnotised the prison guard to escape (anyone who's ever done any training in or researched how hypnosis works knows this is impossible, pretend, implausible). Hypnotism is basically visualisation, no one can actually hypnotise a professionally trained prison guard into opening a cell door, not even Lucien.The FBI are incompetent, they don't interview any of the remaining surviving prison guards to find out what they might know about who allowed Lucien the charmer/manipulator/narcissist psychopath to gain access to the fourth locked gate - something that's supposed to happen immediately after a prisoner goes AWOL - (all cells are locked, double, triple, quadruple from the wardens office via several security doors off the wing) to escape the infirmary inside a maximum security prison, get out of the courtyard and over the twenty foot high razor-wired fence, past security cameras and a trained shooter up in the tower and escape. They also put this highly dangerous man in a maximum security prison instead of the Supermax wing of a federal prison because it was closer than the federal prison to Quantico which no longer exists as a training and monitoring Behavioural Sciences Unit (forensic psychologists do that now freelance or for certain companies of state, federal, or social expertise) to interview him and study him but don't appear to have been paying enough attention to prevent him escaping (it would have been more realistic if he'd been accidentally released on a technical mistake instead of another prisoner). But then the dialogue is interspersed with interesting anecdotes about the villain ("you know he's the worst/most dangerous/most evil killer in existence." "Yeah, I know." But what does the LAPD detective do? tell us he's not bothered that his ex friend has escaped and that he'll wait for the US Marshall's to find him. Even though he knows the serial killer is going to come after him because he's the one who captured him and led him to jail in the first place. By this point point (early on) I felt if Hunter didn't care that this dangerous psychopath was on the loose why should I? Hunter is not even offered any form of protection by the FBI and is allowed to continue his investigation into the missing escapee who could be nearby, which allows Lucien to find Hunter's girlfriend and kill her parents. And still Hunter shows zero emotion when this occurs, in fact he came across to me as far more emotionless than Lucien!I give this book 3 stars because I know how much time, effort, blood, sweat, and tears goes into writing one.

I hate to say this because I love Chris Carter’s books and his style of writing but I was utterly bored with this book. I found it very predictable to be honest. Hunter basically running every section of the police force single handed and always always always taking all the guilt on board every single time. I have just read the other reviews and it looks like I’m in the minority here but I guess it’s each to their own. Maybe I’m starting to get a little jaded staying with the same genre. Great shame hope the next book is better.

I have adored every single Chris Carter book in the Robert Hunter series and especially loved An Evil Mind, the prequel to this one, so I was more than eager to start reading it.Lucien Folter, the extremely intelligent psychopath I love to hate, is back with a vengeance- literally. He’s sworn revenge on my beloved Robert Hunter as he escapes from a maximum security facility right at the beginning and the pace is set for the rest of the book. The beginning left me breathless, it was brilliant.The plot itself becomes a little hard to believe, and I don’t say this lightly as I simply love Chris Carter. Nothing really seems to happen, in the second half particularly, with lots of ‘padding out’ and inconsequential events, which is not something I’m used to with Chris at all.However, all that said it’s still a very satisfying read but, for the first time ever, I am left with lots of unanswered questions particularly around one particular ‘incident’. I met Chris whilst he was in the UK on his book tour, and he did mention that one part of the book wasn’t accepted by the publishers for UK readers (🙄) as it was too gory, so was omitted. He obviously didn’t say which but said ‘we would know when we got there’ and this does indeed leave some big questions unanswered.I loved how the wonderful Carlos Garcia takes more of centre stage and he’s certainly evolving into the mould of Robert Hunter who, in this one, is certainly affected by events.It is very cleverly written, as always, but just misses the mark a little for the usual 5 stars.I would say, if you are contemplating reading this, it would be a good idea to read An Evil Mind, which gives a background on both characters and how Lucien was captured.It’s fast paced, gritty and at times immensely ‘heart thumping and hold your breath’ stuff with as many twists and turns as a roller coaster. Just when you think you know what will happen/ is happening it isn’t, so don’t believe everything you read!

⭐️⭐️⭐️ 3 enjoyable starsI’ve read all of Chris Carter’s books and they are all 4 or 5 stars; he is one of my favourite authors.So I write this review with an element of disappointment because this is my least favourite of his books.I’m trying to pinpoint what was wrong this time. Maybe it was the fact we knew from the outset who the bad guy was and so we lost the suspense and twists that normally come with a Hunter book. Or maybe it was the over reliance on repetition, for example we’d have great detail from Lucien about his plan and thinking, only for us to read it again as he describes it / recounts it to others.If you’ve never read a Chris Carter book, don’t start with this one.

I thoroughly enjoyed this sequel to Chris Carter's "An Evil Mind", finding it an intriguing story line with the mind games adopted by Lucien as he taunts Robert Hunter. I admit that I did spend some time trying to come up with an answer to Lucien's riddle which was well thought out and this delayed my completion of the book. (Also failed to come up with right answer).I must admit that an expertly inserted red herring had me completely fooled. No additional comment here as this could result in a spoiler.A few too many typographical errors, but apart from that the story line and tension is in keeping with Chris Carter's usual high standards and, for me, deserves five stars.AnOn