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Wild Justice: A Nadia Stafford Novel Kindle Edition

by Kelley Armstrong (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Book 3 of 3: Nadia Stafford

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The long-awaited final installment of the Nadia Stafford series from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Otherworld series and Hemlock Island

Since Kelley Armstrong wrapped up book two of the Nadia Stafford series, fans have been eager to know what happens to the tough-as-nails contract killer. At last, Wild Justice brings Nadia back for the series’ thrilling conclusion—an action-packed tale that will dazzle fans of the series as well as those who are only familiar with Armstrong’s bestselling paranormal books.

In Wild Justice, Nadia is confronted with her most difficult task to date: going after the man who killed her cousin Amy twenty years prior. But when it turns out that someone else has gotten to him first, she is drawn into a complex situation where everything she knows and loves is thrown into the path of danger. Nadia is forced to take matters into her own hands, ultimately requiring her to confront her darkest secrets—and her deepest desires—in a way that she never thought possible.

Armstrong's beloved Otherworld series is coming to the Syfy Channel in January 2014. Fans of that series are sure to enjoy the no holds barred action of Wild Justice.

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Praise for the Nadia Stafford series

“The hugely talented Armstrong delves into a truly shadowy world where honor and morals are set to a different frequency. In Nadia Stafford, she’s created an anti-heroine whose motivations are convoluted, yet utterly gripping. Take a walk on the dark side—where contract killers become both the bait and the hunter of a vicious serial killer.”
—Romantic Times Book Reviews

“This one is a real hoot, and I hope Nadia returns soon.”
—Margaret Cannon, The Globe and Mail

“Original, dark, and gritty, with enough humanity to keep you caring about its anti-heroes and enough suspense to keep you turning the pages.”
—Cody McFadyen, author of Shadow Man

“Armstrong’s expert plotting never falters, and she’s able to keep ramping up the intensity throughout.... Top-notch entertainment sure to seduce fans of tough heroines.”
—Publishers Weekly

About the Author

Kelley Armstrong lives in rural Ontario with her family.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00COOFQKY
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Plume (November 26, 2013)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 26, 2013
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2020 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 369 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 0751550094

Best Sellers Rank: #802,297 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #3,506 in Assassination Thrillers (Books)
- #7,958 in Murder
- #19,572 in Women Sleuths (Kindle Store)

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Kelley Armstrong believes experience is the best teacher, though she’s been told this shouldn’t apply to writing her murder scenes. To craft her books, she has studied aikido, archery and fencing. She sucks at all of them. She has also crawled through very shallow cave systems and climbed half a mountain before chickening out. She is however an expert coffee drinker and a true connoisseur of chocolate-chip cookies.

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KC - Seeing Night

A Perfect Way to End a Series!

Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2014

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Holy Moly!! I have missed this series so much and as much as I love it and don’t want it to end, I’m happy to have a conclusion. This was a great ending to a long awaited book. I’m a huge fan of Kelley Armstrongs Women of the Otherworld series and discovered her mystery series a when the first was released years ago. Her characters are just as complex, with lot of humor intertwined with a seriously intriguing plot; I couldn’t wait to see what Armstrong did with this series. This of course is the last in the Nadia Stafford series and I felt it went out with a bang, no pun intended.

Wild Justice brings back Nadia Stafford, the tough as nails hit man who takes out some seriously bad people in the world. Ever since the murder of her cousin and killing a bad person while on duty as a cop, Nadia has taken a path many wouldn’t understand. But after a hit fails and devastates Nadia, her mentor Jack decides that she needs something to bring her back. He gives her the location of the man who took her cousins life. But a hit mans life is not an easy one and Nadia and Jack discover that there is more behind this killer than meets the eye.

Nadia is like many of the female characters Armstrong writes, tough, determined, and passionate and down right dangerous. She has gone through many ups and downs and now has a chance to seek revenge for what started her downward spiral. I had a feeling from the beginning that the series would come back to this storyline, it has always affected Nadia, she is missing pieces about what happened and wants to find justice. I liked the combination of Jack and Nadia working together, they know how each other think, kill, love, and laugh. Nadia gets a lot of answers and not all are what she wanted to hear but needed to know.

Jack is as awesome as ever, still a quiet man who only speaks in short sentence but I love him nonetheless. His character finally unfolds in this book, the readers slowly peels back the layers as he opens up to Nadia and talks about his past. Jack has always been my favorite guy in Nadia’s life and I’m glad that Armstrong decided to focus on him a bit more. In the end no one knows Nadia best like Jack, he is the one person who understands her triggers and what she needs.

Overall this was a fantastic ending to such an intense series, there is lots of humor, twists, shocking moments and much needed romance. All the characters come back, including Quinn and Evelyn. What I loved most is how one secret unfolded another, which this wasn’t just about one mystery but a more complex secret that even Jack and Nadia were shocked to discover. I will miss this series so much but am happy to have a great conclusion.
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This is an adult novel with violence and minor sexual content. Fans of Jennifer Esteps Elemental Assassins series and Janet Evanovichs’ Stephanie Plum series will want to read the Nadia Stafford series by Kelley Armstrong.

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A conclusion that has far-reaches to the beginning of the series and roots in our heroines' psyche

Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2013

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Nadia `Dee' Stafford is a hitman. After a disastrous career move as a cop, that saw her shoot an unarmed criminal and get kicked off the force, Nadia took herself into the wilds of Canada where she bought a lodge and started a B&B. But to keep her new life afloat she started taking jobs as a gun for hire. Early in her side-career she was taken under the wing of veteran hitman, `Jack', and the two of them have been through a few near-misses and gruelling assignments together.

But never far from Nadia's mind is the truth of why she became a cop in the first place, and maybe why killing comes so naturally to her . . . when she was just 13-years-old, Nadia and her cousin Amy were kidnapped. Nadia got away, Amy didn't. After a botched trial, her murderer walked free.

Drew Aldrich and the memory of Amy's death have haunted Nadia ever since, but when Aldrich resurfaces (under a new alias) finding him sets off a chain-reaction in the murky underworld of hired assassins and puts Nadia in grave danger.

`Wild Justice' is the third and (long overdue) final book in Kelley Armstrong's `Nadia Stafford' thriller trilogy.

The first book in this series was `Exit Strategy', released back in 2007. Armstrong introduced readers to disgraced but gutsy Nadia Stafford; gun for hire and ex-cop whose name and reputation had been dragged through the mud after she shot an unarmed criminal. That was a few years ago, and when we first meet Nadia she's a lodge-owner moonlighting as a hitman. In that first book, Nadia joined forces with her older hitman mentor, Jack, to hunt down a serial killer by using herself as bait. Teaming up with Nadia and Jack were his own mentor, Evelyn, and US Marshall with a vigilante gig on the side, Quinn.

The second book came out in 2009, `Made to be Broken' teamed the foursome up again, this time to look for a vanished teenage girl and her baby. The second book teased out the relationships which were hinted at in `Exit Strategy' - mainly a flirtation between Nadia and Quinn, a deep dislike between the two men and the realization that Nadia would like something more with her mentor, Jack . . .

And then came the long, long, long wait for the final book. For a while it seemed that Kelley Armstrong was either too busy with `Women of the Otherworld' and its spin-offs to ever feasibly write Nadia's conclusion, or none was ever planned. This, despite `Made to be Broken' having ended on an emotional cliffhanger that left fans reeling.

Well, it's been four long years but finally we have `Wild Justice' - the third and final book in Nadia Stafford's story that addresses a traumatic and defining event from her childhood, and provides fans with some satisfying closure in our favourite hitman's private life.

When the book begins Nadia is reeling after an assignment goes horribly wrong. Coming to pull her out of a guilt-spiral, Jack arrives with more than just words of wisdom to comfort his young protégé . . . he has something more, better - Jack's located the man who murdered Nadia's cousin, and got away with murder.

But finding Drew Aldrich sets off a chain-reaction in the criminal underworld, and Nadia finds herself needing protection and help from Jack, Evelyn and Quinn once again.

This book snuck up on me, I've got to admit. I'd wanted it for so long that when it finally arrived, I was totally blindsided because I'd long ago convinced myself the day would never come and Nadia's story would forever be open-ended. But from the very first page it was easy to slip back into this story alongside Nadia Stafford - once again picking up the thread of her traumatised childhood and searing vengeance that so determined her initial career as a cop, and then her decision to keep on killing as a hitman.

Something that really shone for me in this book (and was a big reason I fell in love with the series to begin with) was how many tropes Armstrong avoids. Much like loyal and strong Elena in `Women of the Otherworld', Nadia Stafford is not your typical heroine - and she's definitely not like the female assassins of Hollywood. Forget Angelina Jolie, stiletto chases and cocktail murders - Nadia Stafford has girl-next-door looks and a down-to-earth disposition. She's self-determined and clever, lets very few people get close to her and prefers her quiet life in the Canadian wilds. She's a great dichotomy of perfectly ordinary woman leading a quietly extraordinary and deadly double-life.

I was so grateful that Armstrong addresses Nadia's love life in this book, and gives readers a most satisfying conclusion. I won't give anything away, but Armstrong beautifully balances the heat and built-up tension with the furiously paced whodunit.

And the mystery at the heart of `Wild Justice' is a doozey. Armstrong planted this way back in `Exit Strategy' - setting up Nadia's childhood trauma and survivor's guilt over her cousin's death. That long arc story really pays off in this book, as it's intricately linked to Nadia's personal barriers and killer instinct.

`Wild Justice' may have been a long four years in coming, but it was well worth the wait. Here is a fine farewell for everyone's favourite hitman, Nadia Stafford, in a conclusion that has far-reaches to the beginning of the series and roots in our heroines' psyche. A brilliantly plotted and satisfying farewell to one of my favourite thriller series.

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The last chapter of an excellent trilogy

Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2013

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Fans of Kelley Armstrong's character Nadia Stafford waited four years for the final book of the trilogy (the first two books are Exit Strategy and Made to be Broken). Armstrong is an extremely prolific writer with a wonderful paranormal series, Women of the Underworld, all of which I have avidly read and really enjoyed.

However, in the Nadia Stafford books, the heroine is NOT supernatural in any way; no flying or invisibility or shape-shifting. Instead, she has made herself into a useful tool, learned discipline, honed her skills and became really good at what she does. And what she does is kill people for money.

As a hit man, Nadia has rules: she won't go after children, cheating spouses, or otherwise innocent people whose death would benefit another (like insurance fraud). The reasons for her character development are excellently and deftly handled. Armstrong is a fantastic story-teller, and the intricacies of winding a back-story into the present are some of her strongest points. The ethics and morality of Nadia's life are handled without ever degenerating into self-pity or moralizing.

Having said that, this last book was a tiny bit of a let-down for me. Nadia's romantic involvements by necessity put her off her game. She was distracted. She became a little...I hate to say this...weak, and men had to help her out a bit much for my tastes.

Still an really excellent read. I'd give "Exit Strategy" 5 stars, "Made to be Broken" 5 stars, and "Wild Justice" 4. If you haven't read any of Kelley Armstrong's books, I urge you to try them out. She's really a gifted, smart, talented author, one of my top 5 favorites.

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Ray Connerty

I xcellent series

Reviewed in Canada on November 22, 2021

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This book is well paced and the series ends in a lovely wrap up of loose ends that does not feel forced

Mary Barber

don't understand the question

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 7, 2023

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Excellent

redangel

great series

Reviewed in Australia on August 4, 2023

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The whole series was well written and very enjoyable, good characters and lots of action to keep you up late at night to finish the book.

Mina

The trilogy's finale is a very satisfying wrap-up

Reviewed in Germany on August 22, 2017

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Note: this being the last book in a trilogy with an overall story arc makes it not the best place to start reading. I recommend to start with “Exit Strategy”.

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If you've followed the part-time hitwoman/lodge-owner Nadia Stafford up to this point, you know that there are lots of open questions, about both her past and present time, needing answers. And these bring unfinished business, too. So the very good news is: things come to a head and are wrapped up in the best possible way.

The case of Nadia's murdered cousin, Amy, is finally laid to rest – and it took a few dramatic [if not all surprising] turns, while Nadia, Jack and Quinn were on to it. But boy, did this solution fit the character of both Nadia and the crime. Also, the “near love triangle” [“near”, because wasn't ever really one] is finally dissolved for good. And in a believable, yet painful way. I loved the outcome. And I was so happy that there was much less annoying Evelyn to suffer. Her appearances were kept short and less annoying. Overall, this was a great end to this atmospheric and entertaining crime/mystery series.

Since there is a novella following this last book in the trilogy, I don't have to leave Nadia's world immediately. But anyway: “Wild Justice” was all, I wanted it to be.

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