Thriller-extraordinaire Robert Liparulo returns with resounding force in Deadfall.  Though sporting a breakneck pace similar to Germ and Comes A Horseman, Deadfall dispenses with global conspiracies, telling instead a story about friendship, loyalty, and sacrifice.  However, be it a globe-trotting adventure or a deadly game of cat and mouse, as always, hold on for the ride.

Needing respite from worldly burdens and misfortunes, four friends seek escape from their hectic lives into the Canadian Wilderness. There, they hope that stripping down to the barest essentials will help them piece their lives back together. They are airlifted to a remote location, and dropped off to fend for themselves.

Needing respite from worldly burdens and misfortunes, four friends seek escape from their hectic lives into the Canadian Wilderness. There, they hope that stripping down to the barest essentials will help them piece their lives back together. They are airlifted to a remote location, and dropped off to fend for themselves.

Quickly enough, their escape to nature turns into an escape from hell. A madman is running loose, testing a dangerous weapon with malicious impunity. After enslaving a small town and arbitrarily executing several of its citizens, there’s little to stop him from killing four friends already cut off from the outside world. Armed with nothing but a hunting bow and often reluctant courage, these friends will sacrifice much – perhaps all – for even a few to survive.

Liparulo is at his best in Deadfall; he’s an action-adventure artist creating pulse-pounding Rembrandts.  Though his earlier works are excellent tales, his characterization is stronger here, because when the action-glitz is pulled away there’s a sustaining story underneath about friends who’d do anything for each other. Reminiscent of Stephen King’s Dreamcatcher but without the gore, this is the season’s best “buddy thriller”.

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