End Game by David Baldacci (2017)

These books keep me awake on the road and though the number of bodies at the end is horrendous, I still enjoy them. This time, Will Robie's and Jessica Reel's boss Blueman goes missing while on vacation in Colorado, so they go to investigate and find gun toting Coloradans with numerous cult like groups hiding away in the desolate plains of eastern Colorado.

As usual, we have an interesting cast of characters - Sheriff Malloy, who has come out from New York to be near her sister Holly who has fallen in with the wrong crowd. Then there is deputy Bender, who's mother Clare used to go out with Blueman and now runs a legal medical marijuana business. His sister Patty is one of the gun toting ones. Then there are the various cults - the skinheads, run by a guy named Dolf, another group run by King, and some other group that we don't really see. We also have a rich guy Lambert, who has catered to the rich survivalists and built luxury doomsday apartments in a decommissioned missile silo. Robie and Reel come into this chaotic world and try to make sense of it, getting almost killed at least a dozen times, but leaving a lot of dead bodies in their wake. They also seemed to have a thing going between the at the end of the last book, but that seems to have fallen apart. They do seem made for each other.