title: Shockwave: An Aftershock Novel
author:  Andrew Vachss 
description: If youve ever sat next to someone, maybe in a bar, maybe at a family gathering, who speaks in a low, gruff voice, hinting at his shadowy pastthe kind of person who makes you wonder if youve heard wrong, or if youve just led a really sheltered lifeyoull know what the first-person narrator of this novel sounds like. Dell is the hero of Vachss new Shock series (following Aftershock, 2013). When he says he used to belong to the French Foreign Legion, it sounds faintly ridiculous, coupled with his subsequent career as a mercenary soldier. The love of his life, Dolly, is (what else?) a former nurse in Doctors without Borders. He has PTSD; she has secondary PTSD. Theyre living in a tiny town in Oregon, just trying to recover and love each other. But a body, covered with neo-Nazi tattoos, washes up on the beach near their retreat. Police suspect a local schizophrenic, wanting to close a case that could affect tourism, but Dell and Dolly go deeper into the very scary world of hate groups. Absorbing puzzle, building suspense, but cardboard characters and Dells arrogant voice get in the way. --Connie Fletcher
zlib_text: > > SHOCK TREATMENT
  
  > > A NOVA SHOCK THRILLER, BOOK 1
  
  > GEOFFREY LYON
  
  > BLUE ROAN PUBLISHING
  
  Copyright © 2020 by Geoffrey Lyon
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or
  mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without
  written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in
  a book review.
  
  Printed in the United States of America
  
  First Printing, 2020
  
  Blue Roan Publishing
  
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  Suite 586463
  
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  USA
  
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  > CONTENTS
  
  >  _Chapter 1_
  
  >  _Chapter 2_
  
  >  _Chapter 3_
  
  >  _Chapter 4_
  
  >  _Chapter 5_
  
  >  _Chapter 6_
  
  >  _Chapter 7_
  
  >  _Chapter 8_
  
  >  _Chapter 9_
  
  >  _Chapter 10_
  
  >  _Chapter 11_
  
  >  _Chapter 12_
  
  >  _Chapter 13_
  
  >  _Chapter 14_
  
  >  _Chapter 15_
  
  >  _Chapter 16_
  
  >  _Chapter 17_
  
  >  _Epilogue_
  
  >  _Also by Geoffrey Lyon_
  
  > > CHAPTER 1
  
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