THE MAILMAN

ANDREW WELSH HUGGINS

The Mailman by Andrew Welsh-Huggins is MY book. And it should be yours as well. Mercury Carter was a federal agent who now has to make a buck. His job is a freelance courier, which is precisely what it means. He delivers letters and documents—anything you can send. As the book starts, his job is to provide a package to a lawyer, seemingly mundane as in this genre. The carrier realizes something has gone wrong. He enters the lawyer's home and discovers a group of men committing a crime. Carter tells these guys he's not leaving until he delivers the package and has never missed a delivery. Due to the delay, the attorney who is expecting the package ends up being kidnapped. And sure enough, Carter and the attorney's husband give chase; however, the news gets worse as the lawyer's daughter is also missing. Who wants to kidnap the lawyer and the lawyer's daughter? The book was extraordinarily engrossing and challenging to stop reading. The Mailman is a book with action, unpredictability, and well-written prose. I highly recommend this book.