Wrath of Innocence

If you like puzzles, or if you like storylines found on TV shows such as “Lost,” then “Wrath of Innocence” is for you. White leads you in one direction, and before you know it, you are in the past, present, and future – often at the same time. One moment you are in an old diner in Oregon, the next moment you are back in time when candles lit the streets of San Francisco.

White deliberately confuses the reader of his story, by baiting one with storylines that coincide with one another in different times and circumstances. Even when I wasn’t reading a chapter, I thought of the story while I was driving, cooking, and also while waiting at the airport to board my airplane.

The author captures the unique characteristics of each character, especially the protagonist, his partner, and the mysterious man named Demetri. White does a superb job of describing the villain and its attacks in such a way that you could almost see it happening in your mind’s eye.

At the climax of the story, the web that Michael White has weaved begins to fall into place. The reader will feel they are successful at putting together the final pieces of a 5000-piece puzzle, only to have it scattered on the floor because of a brilliant twist in the last pages.

Reviewed by Tim Kelly