The Best Revenge

Book 3: The Best Revenge

Winners and Losers in a Violent Contest for Vengeance

In their earlier criminal careers, late-life newlyweds Victor Harding and Alva Batek have stepped on a lot of toes. To escape prosecution for fencing high-ticket stolen property, Victor helped orchestrate a sting operation that sent most of a rural burglary ring to prison and led to the ringleader’s death. As for Alva, over decades of running sophisticated financial scams, the skilled Sri Lankan money launderer fleeced scores of suckers out of millions. And after a Venezuelan drug cartel’s hijacking of Victor and Alva’s luxurious sailboat goes awry in the Caribbean, a drug-smuggling kingpin figures the elderly couple’s hairsbreadth escape has cost the cartel a hundred million dollars in cocaine street value. 

Now the elderly couple’s victims all are out for revenge. Wishing only a quiet retirement, Victor, Alva and their family find themselves caught in murderous crosshairs, pursued by various assassins, operating independently but all bent on mayhem. All headed to bucolic Green Lake, Wisconsin, each intent on exacting their pound of flesh.

Yet even as  Alva and Victor realize they must defend themselves from a Japanese yakuza gang lord, the volatile head of the Venezuelan drug cartel, and the remaining members of a murderous Wisconsin motorcycle gang, they decide go on the offensive, to seek their own revenge against these villains who have subjected them to such enormous fear, pain, and agony.  

The Battle for the Best Revenge Is on.

Plays and Players, Wars and Warriors: The Action Begins

The antagonists are not without resources. Each side calls upon determined defenders, marshaling skilled strategists and fearless agents to plan globe-spanning retribution and to strike before they are struck. The Best Revenge is a heart-pounding thriller that brings together compelling characters, a feast of multicultural action, moral complexity, and plenty of wet work. This explosive conclusion to the Victor Hard Adventures series features the compelling writing and nuanced plots readers have come to know and enjoy from Douglas Richardson. A satisfying finale, indeed.