{"id":13938,"date":"2020-07-10T18:41:59","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T22:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=13938"},"modified":"2020-07-10T18:41:59","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T22:41:59","slug":"lost-tomorrows-by-matt-coyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=13938","title":{"rendered":"‘Lost Tomorrows,’ by Matt Coyle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u201cRick, you seem like an intense, but decent, fellow.\u201d He looked at me with cop eyes. Military, civilian, they all looked the same. Asking questions in silence. \u201cFrom the looks of the bump on your head and your black eyes I\u2019m guessing you recently sustained a concussion and are probably still in pain. But you\u2019ve never shown evidence of it. Your eyes stay targeted on that screen. Not just intense, but manic. You\u2019re focused on a mission. Tunneled in. I\u2019ve seen it in enlisted men and COs. I\u2019m worried you\u2019ve lost your peripheral vision. You\u2019re target blind. Blind to everything but your target. Like a zealot. That\u2019s a dangerous way to live, Rick.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve had a feeling,<\/strong> all through Matt Coyle\u2019s fascinating but troubling Rick Cahill series of mysteries, that the whole project was working up to some kind of epic climax. Along the way, a lot of bad stuff happened, and some of the books were pretty heartbreaking. But I think this last book, Lost Tomorrows<\/a><\/em>, makes it all well worth it (though another Rick Cahill book is coming out down the line. But that one will have an altered scenario, for reasons that will become clear to anyone who finishes this one).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rick Cahill lives in La Jolla, California, where he grew up and his father was a cop (disgraced, though now cleared posthumously by his son). But Rick\u2019s own short police career was in Santa Barbara. There his wife was murdered and he was arrested for it. The case was dropped, but Rick was kicked off the force anyway. And, for reasons he tells no one, he blames himself for her death anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A call from Santa Barbara persuades Rick to go back after all these years. Krista Landingham, the policewoman who trained him, has been killed by a car in a hit-and-run pedestrian accident. Krista\u2019s sister Leah asks him to come up for the funeral. Rick knows he has only enemies on the Santa Barbara force, but he feels obligated to pay his respects. Just as he paid his respects at his wife\u2019s funeral, in a church filled with devout enemies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He only plans to attend the service and go home, but Leah Landingham asks to speak with him. She doesn\u2019t believe Krista\u2019s death was an accident. She was working on a big case, and there was no reason except work for her to have been in that place at that time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rick tries to explain that he\u2019s the worst person in the world to do this job. Every cop in Santa Barbara hates his guts. Leah replies that she\u2019s actually already hired the retired policeman (now a private investigator) who arrested Rick. He is now convinced Rick was innocent, and is willing to work with him \u2013 though he still holds a grudge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is actually the kind of situation Rick can\u2019t resist. Full of self-hatred, he thrives on hostile environments. He will soon discover that Krista had been working on his wife\u2019s cold case. Is it possible she was getting close to the truth, to uncovering the true culprit? Was she killed for that? Rick will endure pretty much anything to learn the answer to that question, and then he plans to exact his own brand of justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rick has always followed his father\u2019s rule, to do right, even if it goes against the law. But what if his reasoning is off? What if he doesn\u2019t know what\u2019s right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lost Tomorrows<\/em> is a gripping, explosive book full of dread and moral complexity, ending with a shocker that\u2019s nevertheless quite satisfying. I particularly liked the way the story questioned subjective judgments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cautions for intense violence. I didn\u2019t notice much (or any) objectionable language. Occasional references to Christianity were respectful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cRick, you seem like an intense, but decent, fellow.\u201d He looked at me with cop eyes. Military, civilian, they all looked the same. Asking questions in silence. \u201cFrom the looks of the bump on your head and your black eyes I\u2019m guessing you recently sustained a concussion and are probably still in pain. But you\u2019ve … Continue reading ‘Lost Tomorrows,’ by Matt Coyle<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,15],"tags":[1710,1801,2374],"class_list":["post-13938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-reviews","tag-lost-tomorrows","tag-matt-coyle","tag-rick-cahill"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}