The Terror of Living : A Novel (Hardcover)

from quiBee

This book was not really to my liking--too violent.A small-time drug runner and ex-con, Hunt, gets interrupted in a run in the mountains by a small-time sheriff, Drake,who had a father who had been caught doing exactly the same kind of drug running.Because the drugs don't go where they are suppos...

from Stahl-Ricco

Non stop action all the way through! But dang, if this isn't a super close retelling of No Country for Old Men! And the author even thanks Cormac in the acknowledgments! He should do more than thank, he should send him some of his royalties!

from hayduke

The Terror of Living is a fine first novel, and without a doubt, a page-turning thriller that will keep you reading late into the night. The comparisons to Cormac McCarthy, and especially No Country For Old Men are appropriate. In fact, sometimes the prose is imitative in an obvious way, but Wait...

from MadMooseMama

The Terror Of Living is a fast-paced crime suspense thriller that has mild to moderate expletives with many graphic bloody scene descriptions. First time author, Urban Waite, delivers an on-your-seat thriller with strong characters and a believable plot. Phil Hunt is a down-on-his luck horse ranc...

from Hagelstein

The Terror of Living is a literary-noir-suspense-crime-western-drug smuggling story set in Washington State and Canada. Phil Hunt, a horseman and convicted felon by trade, loses a load of cocaine that has been air-dropped into the mountains, where he's supposed to pack it out by horse. He's pursu...