Kingdom Come » (Unabridged)

Tim Green has written twelve previous thrillers and the nonfiction New York Times bestseller The Dark Side of the Game. He played eight years in the NFL and is a member of the New York State Bar. Today he is a featured commentator on NPR and Fox Sports. He lives with his wife and five children in upstate New York. For more information about the author, visit his website timgreenbooks.com.

AN AMBITIOUS WIFE. A THIRST FOR POWER. A CHANCE TO HAVE IT ALL. I never thought I could kill anyone. I don t mean in a rage, or in self-defense, or in a war. I mean killing someone to get what you want. That wasn t me. But even the best of us has that bad side. How far would you go for unlimited wealth and power? For Thane Coder, a shot at running one of the richest, most influential corporations in America was an opportunity he couldn t pass up. And with his seductive, savvy wife, Jessica, showing him the way, his fate was decided. All it took was a back door, a snowy night, and an old hunting knife to unlock more money than Thane could ever imagine. After he murders his boss, mentor, and friend James King, Thane and Jessica leap into a life of corporate jets and tropical hideaways a world of infinite luxury and privilege. But when King s son surfaces with suspicion and revenge on his mind, the Coders empire begins to crumble. In KINGDOM COME, boardrooms become hunting grou...

Kirkus Reviews

An ambitious soccer mom drives her husband to murder. When Jessica Coder was a child, her mother held Jessica's hand to a red-hot stove burner. Years later, Jessica lost her first child when her husband Thane's business associate, James King, refused help that could have saved the boy's life. Now Jessica seeks revenge. She prods her sappy husband to shaft King in a business deal that will make them rich enough to turn their upstate New York home into a palace and send them jetting all over the world. So what if Thane has to consort with the Mafia, deceive the FBI and murder three men? He suffers an occasional crisis of conscience, even spotting King's (read Banquo's) ghost a couple of times. But his wife's passionate whispers keep him going. "You eat or you get eaten," Thane admits to a prison psychiatrist in one of several scenes that dminish the suspense factor by revealing early on that Thane and Jessica are doomed. Alas, convicted killer Thane gives readers little to pull for, as does wife Jessica, a ludicrous and nearly laughable Lady Macbeth from Skineatles who pops pills, hides from mirrors and comes on to a repellant Mafioso. Green (Exact Revenge, 2005) thus leaves himself with only the chase to engage readers. Jessica's scheme, intricate enough, gives Thane the daunting task of pitting the FBI against the mob against King's business enterprise, which is involved in building a New Jersey shopping center to rival the Mall of America. All of this plays out in some fairly supple action scenes. Nevertheless, the book possesses a been-there escaped-that quality, as when Thane, headed home in his truck during a lightning storm, floors it to ditch some FBI agents. This pot never quiteboils.