Hunt the Villain by Rina Kent
There is something almost theatrical about the opening of Hunt the Villain by Rina Kent — a summer camp deep in the Adirondack Mountains, populated not by teenagers with canoe paddles, but by the heirs of rival Russian-American mafia organizations, stripped of phones and personal guards, forced into uneasy cohabitation. The premise is dramatic almost to the point of absurdity. And then Yulian Dimitriev walks in — bloodied, grinning, having just detonated a device for the sheer entertainment of it — and the novel announces itself as something far more complicated than its setup suggests. Hunt the Villain by Rina Kent is the second entry in Rina Kent’s Villain series. Where Kiss the Villain introduced Nikolai’s story and laid the groundwork for this world, this book narrows its focus to two characters who have been circling each other — and readers’ curiosity — since the series began. The forthcoming Crave the Villain will close out the trilogy, but for now, this is the installment that carries the heaviest emotional weight of the three. Its predecessor …
