A review by mojoshivers
Criminal Enterprise by Owen Laukkanen

5.0

This was a standout installment. Most books try to humanize their villains, try to make the audience understand the motivations behind their devious actions. This book took the opposite approach. It started out with Carter Tomlin—accountant, devoted family man, upstanding citizen—robbing banks after being laid off. But then it gave him a niggling bloodlust that grows with every successful heist. It festers slowly at first but eventually bursts forth until Tomlin is a bloody psychopath going on a rampage through a throng of people.

You can literally witness grow less human page by page, depraved murder after murder, and it’s fascinating to watch.

As always Stevens and Windermere make great heroes and are interesting instruments to stir the action, but the real stars of this series so far are its fascinating bad guys.