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Co-written with Steven Spruill, Nightkill is a decent thriller about a mob assassin who gets double-crossed. The plot takes some unexpected twists, which I enjoyed. The pacing is fast, the science is believable, and some of the scenes are very tensely drawn. While not particularly memorable, the book is a worthwhile example of the page-turner genre.
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“The Master of Military Adventure,” Dale Brown has written a roundabout tale of pursuit and revenge, bogged down with questionable technology and wooden characters. The reviews at Amazon (see below) are mixed at best; I wish I’d seen them before buying my copy. I was happy to finish this one. Sigh.
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I generally enjoy Woods’ non-political stories, e.g. the Stone Barrington novels, better than the political books. But while The Run falls into the political category, it’s a typical Woods thriller: tightly paced, with believable bad guys plotting all-too-believable crimes (in this case, an assassination attempt on the leading presidential candidate).
Woods never writes a word that doesn’t advance the action in some way, so if you like that terse style, you’ll like The Run.
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I came to my first Elmore Leonard novel with some expectations that were perhaps unfair: his novel Get Shorty was made into a fantastic movie (with Travolta, Hackman, Russo, and DeVito!). And one of my favorite writers, Carl Hiaasen, is often compared to Leonard… so I demanded a lot from Pronto, even though I picked it up secondhand for about three dollars.
An ex-NYT bestseller, book-of-the-month-club selection, Pronto is a contemporary crime novel set in south Florida. It pits a modern cowboy against a mafioso, fighting to save the life of a run-down bookie who is ironically more pathetic than sympathetic. But the dialog is sharp, and the pacing tight; it is an enjoyable read.
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This is a decent thriller, with a few too many characters for my taste. Keeping track of everybody poses a small demand on the reader.
The story is well-paced, telling a somewhat complex story of a murder that took place 30 years before — now the killer is out of prison, and one by one the people who knew him best are dropping dead. Someone’s getting revenge, but who? And for what? Ferrigno keeps the reader guessing.
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