Sunday, February 28, 2016

The Scam

A Fox and O'Hare Novel
Janet Evanovich
Lee Goldberg

How to scam a scammer. Take extra care and this time Nick and Kate are charged with just that. Evan Trace is a big time casino owner who uses his business to launder money, apparently for some terrorists that are targeting the US. So the whole team is pulled together. But when scam plan A backfires, and plan B doesn't quite work out, plan C has to come through. I continue to enjoy the combination of spy thriller, tough action plot-lines with goofy setups and ordinary people as participants on the team. Evanovich and Goldberg never allow their characters to take things to seriously or get dark, but this is serious heist and espionage level plot. Strange, but fun, mixture.

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Saturday, February 20, 2016

Killing Floor

A Jack Reacher Novel
Lee Child

The first Reacher novel, Jack is a new civilian and starting his new life as a drifter. He is traveling to Margrave, Georgia on a lark. His brother had sent him a cryptic question asking whether Blind Blake (a blue musician) had actually died in Margrave. With nothing else to do, Reacher goes to look around. But he is instantly arrested on arrival for murder. The tip from his brother (who works at the US Treasury Department) puts Reacher in the middle of a major counterfeiting ring. So he takes care of it.

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