The Bitter Past (Porter Beck, #1) by Bruce Borgos

 

Porter Beck is the sheriff in the high desert of Nevada, north of Las Vegas. Born and raised there, he left to join the Army, where he worked in Intelligence, deep in the shadows in far off places. Now he's back home, doing the same lawman's job his father once did, before his father started to develop dementia. All is relatively quiet in this corner of the world, until an old, retired FBI agent is found killed. He was brutally tortured before he was killed and clues at the scene point to a mystery dating back to the early days of the nuclear age. If that wasn't strange enough, a current FBI agent shows up to help Beck's investigation.

In a case that unfolds in the past (the 1950s) and the present, it seems that a Russian spy infiltrated the nuclear testing site and now someone is looking for that long-ago, all-but forgotten person, who holds the key to what happened then and to the deadly goings on now.

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About The Author 

 

Bruce Borgos lives and writes from the Nevada desert where he works hard every day to prove his high school guidance counselor had good instincts when he said “You’ll never be an astronaut.” He has a lifelong obsession with words and stories and a fascination with how telephones work. When not writing, you can usually find him at the local wine store.

Visit his website at: https://www.bruceborgos.com/

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My Review

 Everything that happens feels like reality, and very believable! Almost like I was watching a movie unfold. A captivating page turner, that reads like I'm watching history!
Set in the Nevada dessert, and using a dual time line we learn what happens prior and after. How lives are changed, and how some never let go. This is espionage at the highest levels, and whom is complicit, and some you really won't see coming.
This is the first book in this series, and it was so good I can't wait for the next!
I received this book through Net Galley and the Publisher Minotaur Books, and was not required to give a positive review.