Latest Reads

ok so .... I said this blog was about the books that I read but haven't mentioned any yet well here goes, after finishing Bob Morris's latest A Deadly Silver Sea the fourth in the Zack Chastyain series ( Bahamarama, Jamacia Me Dead and Bermuda Schwartz) which was an Ok read, I liked the other books better and missed some of the humor that was present in the earlier books. I went through three books quickly for me. First was The Lords of Corruption by Kyle Mills, I've read several of Mill's other books and have enjoyed his writing. The Lords of Corruption was a good read, Josh Haggarty with a new graduate degree and a past that makes future employers shy away is offered a great job by New Africa and soon leaves his sister in Kentucky to head for Africa. Once he is there his dream job turns into a nightmare and he must find a way to survive! This book seemed to start slow but moved along quickly in the second half and  had a strong finish.

Next up was Barry Eisler's first stand alone Fault Line, Alex Treven is a lawyer handling a new encryption program Obsidian bound to make a ton of money for the inventor but soon the inventor is killed in what appears to be a drug deal gone bad and then the patent reviewer is found dead, soon someone is out to get Alex. Alex calls his estranged brother Ben, who is an assassin for the US, for help. Ben left home after an accident claimed the life of their sister and Alex never for gave Ben. So Alex and Ben set out to keep Alex alive and solve the mystery concerning the program. This was a good read the characters were well developed as the dealt with their personal problems and worked toward the conclusion. 

The final book was C.J. Box's stand alone Three Weeks to Say Goodbye. I am a big fan of CJ Box's Joe Pickett series but wasn't sure I was going to like this Book. Jack and Melissa McGuane are shocked when the biologic father a young teenage son of a Federal judge says that he wants his daughter Angelina back from the McGuane's who adopted her eighteen months prior. The judge gives the McGuane's Three Weeks to Say Goodbye. The rest of the book revolves around their struggle to find a way to keep their daughter. I thought this was the best of the three books. I liked the characters and the moral decisions concerning how far they would go to save their daughter. Good twists and turns kept the pages turning.