The Bystander by John David
This book starts out with a reporter interviewing others at the pre-party festivities at Jacksonville waterfront before the game UFL vs UGA. He's at the right place behind a barrier when others are running away from the scene and he finds out that a lone shooter has aimed his rife into the air and fired off a shot. A bystander approaches him with a gun but shoots him dead. He had fired 3 shots but only 2 went into the lone shooter.
After that Pete discovers he may have the only footage of what happened. He reports back to the studio and many others come to help interview people on the scene. The footage goes viral and know everybody knows who Pete is.
So little time and you have to talk to everybody while trying to figure out all the real details. He has a friend, Rebecca, a cop that takes his call and offers the footage. She can help him out with the investigation from her angle in the next several days.
Author describes the scene as if I was there for real. So scary and the way things twist and turn throughout the story really make it believable. Never knew there would be so much to take care of, documentation for everybody you talk to, clues they give you to go talk to somebody else, etc. Pete is even offered a spot in the documentary a screening service wants to make, with him being a reporter, as it was that day.
So much to this story and relationships that are straight forward, some tangled.
He's hot on the lead of the way things may have been with the lone shooter. He also finds out more details about the hero who took the lone shooter down. Days later more details are released from the cops.
Fast paced action, detailed descriptions, sitting on the edge of my seat and can't wait to read another of this author's stories. WOW! Never saw it ending as it did, WOW!
Received this review copy from the author and this is my honest opinion.
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