I'm so glad I have come across this series of books starring Jonathan Grave. He is a hostage rescue specialist who gets in and gets the job done, regardless of how many bad guys he has to kill to achieve his goal. I really liked the inclusion of Harvey in this one, to bring a moral code that ca...
Like all John Gilstrap books, At All Costs grabs you from page one and doesn't let go. In the opening chapter, the reader is thrust into the lives of Jake and Carolyn; normal everyday people with normal everyday jobs, a son and a home, until one incident sends them fleeing for their lives, on the...
The three family members' characters were very well developed, interesting, and believable. The scene of how Scott escaped from a hired killer was very, very well done because it was imaginable and believable without suspending your disbelief. And the plot was nicely unpredictable because the k...
I picked this book for my "banned book" category in my FB reading challenge. For the life of me I couldn't figure out why it was on the 100 most banned books list - until I read the author's afterward. It's his first book and because the protagonist is a 12 year old boy, he didn't want the book t...
“Yeah.” At this hour—Jesus, one-thirty-seven—one syllable was the best he could muster. “Verify your identity, please, sir,” a voice said from the other side. “Excuse me?” “Sir, I need you to verify your identity before I can continue.” Jonathan shook his head to rattle the sleep from his synapse...
We’re here.” The words startled her. She didn’t realize she’d fallen asleep. When she sat up and looked around, it occurred to her that maybe she’d pulled a Rip van Winkle. The whole world had changed. The beach road had given way to just a beach with a house in the middle of it. Dunes surrounded...
He gave her space for a few days while she sat with the girls in the hospital, but now that they were getting better and were slated to go home the next day, he started to turn the screws on Irene. He finally coaxed her to the hospital’s coffee shop, but only after a floor nurse promised to page ...
The miscreants had used thermite, for heaven’s sake. They’d made no attempt even to give the impression of a natural fire. His sources here in the village told him of visitors who’d arrived in a vehicle that fit the description of the very vehicle for which he’d been alerted to be on the lookout....
Jonathan keyed the mike on his portable radio. “Go ahead.” They were only two hours into their three-hour drive. He sat in the shotgun seat as always, and he turned the volume up so that Boxers could listen in. “ICIS is beginning to light up about our friends,” she said. “Graham is going to be tr...
“I’m hungry,” he said for the fourth time, and he walked toward the kitchen. Brad jumped to his feet to stop him, then pulled back. What the hell? They were all hungry. Maybe with food in their bellies, everybody would feel less edgy. He followed. “Don’t even think about pulling a knife on me,” B...
EVANOW—stood at Carter’s car window against a backdrop of yellow barricade tape that blocked all access to the beach road. “You have to turn around, sir. There’s a hostage situation in progress.” Carter showed his badge and credentials. “I am a district attorney, and I have information that the i...
The Governor’s Suite, for Christ’s sake. The kid was nothing if not ballsy. Nine-fifty a night, no less, plus another three grand in clothes and sundries. How in the world did either of them think that they were going to get away with this? He supposed it made sense for Brad—it was probably the w...
“Good thing we’re not in a hurry,” Boxers grumped as he pulled a seat out for himself. “I’ll do the easy stuff first,” Venice said, her fingers already pounding the keys. “Eyes on the screen, gents.” At the far end of the room, the massive screen switched from dark to blue, and then two faces app...
Culligan respected Braddock County the most. Of all the prosecutors, however, theirs resided on the bottom of the list. J. Daniel Petrelli could not stand in front of enough television cameras, couldn’t spout enough crush-the-criminals rhetoric, and couldn’t play hardball any more aggressively in...
the man said as he took the seat next to Ian. “You look frightened. Don’t be.”Victor Carrington was Ian’s avatar on the Uprising boards. Alternatively, he called himself the Commander. “What would I have to be frightened of?” Ian said. He thought he’d pulled off the causal disinterest thing prett...
She was getting out of here. To hell with the consequences. She’d had it with the lies and the false hopes. This time she was leaving for real. But she had to hurry. They’d be coming for her soon, and she’d need every second of a head start she could get. She prayed for a ten-minute lead, but dou...
Boxers had work to do to close out the Gulfstream, and would drive himself home in his Nissan pickup. Jonathan had a ride waiting for him. Venice stood in the lobby, arms folded and wound up tighter than a watch spring. When they finally made eye contact, it looked as if she'd just taken her firs...
This is the letter that you sent to us. I need to see what we sent back to you."The customer, who appeared way too young to have three children clinging to her legs, looked as if she might cry. "But I couldn't find my copy," she whined. "Don't you people keep copies of your own letters?"The lady ...
They had the top down, and as the wind blew her hair into knots, Nicki thought for sure that she could feel her strength returning, nature’s remedies taking care of nature’s ills. “I can smell the ocean,” she said. Brad craned his neck to look at the thickening sky. “Doesn’t look like it’s going ...