Book Review - Rollback by Michael C Grumley

Mike Mansfield specializes in finding lost people. Not just lost people, but those on whom the whole society has already given up as dead. He is approached by David Bruni who wants to find his daughter who had disappeared four years ago. David would go to any extent to find his daughter, and that would mean creating a supercomputer that could collate pictures circulating all over the world to create a timeline of events. Through coalition of pictures David and his team keep searching for the last place that his daughter must have visited.

What starts as a simple investigation turns into something deadly as Mike finds himself always one step behind an invisible enemy who doesn't want him to solve the case. 

The story is fast-paced and keeps the reader engaged. The characters have played their part well. I especially liked how Mike is portrayed differently - not your regular good-looking and sturdy dude but someone in his mid-fifties with a hairline and a physique to show it. Mike relies purely on his instincts. Although his tactics of ensuring justice are questionable, the readers can relate to his humane side that often wavers between black and white shades and stays somewhere in the gray hue. I really liked his team of 'invisibles', as Mike refers to them. I won't spoil the reason he has named them so but it is quite intriguing and is an unfortunate fact of the society we live in. 

The climax was enthralling although you get an idea of who-dunnit somewhere around the middle of the story.

This book is part 1 of a series named Breakthrough. Although I haven't read the others, I did check their blurbs and each book pertains to a different case featuring Mike and his team. 

I enjoyed reading this book, and I would recommend this to all those looking for simple, thrilling and not-very-gory action-based narratives.