We have your child and you need to do what we say. Every parents worst nightmare, even if you are an hotshot FBI agent. Alex is petrified! She has to hot foot it to Las Vegas for the kidnappers and jump through all of their hoops. Simultaneously Ivy Nash is dealing with an Amber Alert in San Antonio. This story deals with human trafficking and is very disturbing. Knowing that it is a real problem and not just a story makes it even worse. But Mr. Mefford handles all of these scenarios brilliantly, as usual. We get a majority of the players(Alex, Ivy & Ozzie) together in this book and maybe soon we will get all of them in one. This was quite a thrilling, heart-pounding, heart stopping, emotional ride so get ready to hang on!

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I absolutely LOVE the redemption series, but this may just be my favorite book yet. Alex and Ivy are two very passionate, determined women, and when it comes to saving the innocent, they'll stop at nothing, whether its family or a little girl caught up in evil. It's a race against the clock and some of the evilest persons either has ever faced as they try to rescue the girls before its too late. Not even threats to their lives will stop these everyday heroes from pursuing the villains.

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Alex Trout Thriller #9

Redemption Thriller #21

John W. Mefford writes stories with such intensity and to the edge of your seat suspense it is very hard not to be deeply captivated following his protagonist in her mission. Alex Trout is the main character here although Mr. Mefford smoothly weaves in Ivy Nash, the main player, in the Ivy Nash series. “Back at You” brings together two very exciting badass females in journeys that only they can face.

There are two separate threads to follow for most of the thriller till the two paths intersects near the end. Thread one: Alex is at the forefront and in thread two Ivy takes center stage. Both stories are told in alternating chapters and cover the same subject:

What every parent dreads: the abduction of a child.

Alex gets the call and is forced to carry out the wished of the captors. As we follow her on her treacherous journey we are kept on the edge of our seat, adrenaline pumping following her every move. Alex is threatened at every turn and faces one hurdle after the other…even a gun pointed at her face…

While in San Antonio an Amber Alert is set off. Ivy springs into action and is soon on the trail of the assailant trying to find the missing girl. The tension is so palpable following her every move and to see how she tackles the many difficulties thrown her way, no doubts this made for one exciting read.

Alex and Ivy finally met and everything meshed beautifully by the end ….I couldn’t flip the pages fast enough to see if both would succeed…of course they did.

What a roller-coaster ride….well-done …. of course M. Mefford's books are right up my alley.. ( )

I’m beginning to sound like a broken record but I can’t help it. John W. Mefford is an awesome author and has done it again with Back At You. Another book that you can’t put down because it’s that good. This is in the Alex Troutt series and what I really like is how he brings in characters from some of his other books into this series.

Alex Troutt has become my hero. She is a strong, smart women that can stand on her own to any bad guy. In this story, she gets a call that her daughter, Erin, has been kidnaped along with her friend. Erin went with the Faulk family to Las Vegas for a little vacation. The kidnappers want Alex to come to Las Vegas to get her daughter back. Turns out the kidnappers want to use Alex as a drug runner and that’s the only way she’ll get her daughter back. Along the way she goes through some tough times that would make any man fear for his life. Then just as she gets her daughter back, she is asked to stay and try to find another young girl, Angel, who was sold by her mother for drugs. Ivy Nash (from the Ivy Nash series) is the one trying to find Angel and with Alex’s help, nothing with stop them. In the story it speaks about the opioid epidemic along with selling of you girls. The author writes so believable that you know this could really happen. The best part is the ending which will totally take you by surprise. I didn’t see it coming and I can’t wait for the next book in the series. ( )