Read Series: Charlie Hood
by Author T. Jefferson Parker
L.A. Outlaws (2008)
Los Angeles is gripped by the exploding celebrity of Allison Murietta, her real identity unknown, a modern-day Jesse James with the compulsion to steal beautiful things, the vanity to invite the media along, and the conscience to donate much of her bounty to charity. Nobody ever gets hurt - until...
The Jaguar (2012)
The Jaguar is an action/adventure novel set in the environment of drug trafficking in the southwest and Mexico. There is strong character development with rationale for their behaviors. Erin is an innocent musician who has been kidnapped by a drug lord. Her thought processes from a musician's per...
The Border Lords (2011)
In my humble opinion, this novel was dreadful. There was nothing remotely believable or intriguing about it. In this novel an ATF agent goes off the grid and starts killing the bad guys he's investigating. And the reason why he went off the grid - he and his girlfriend had rabies that was purpose...
Sicarios. La frontiera che brucia (2011)
Was a pretty good read. Got a little slow at times. Good mix of realistic(cartels, guns, ATF) and not-so(vampires/vampire bats). The ending was unexpected, considering that I was expecting the familiar everything-works-itself-out-and-everyone-lives-happily-ever-after but was surprised with somet...
Border Lords, The: A Charlie Hood Novel (2011)
A highlight of the book for me is a mere narrated detail on the "coincidence" of the vampire myth in Europe not long after a vampire bat breakout. When with rabies, humans show multiple symptoms that resemble the classical vampire descriptions and traits. Feral aggression and accompanied strengt...
Iron River (2010)
Spoiler Alert! The guy that gets run over in the beginning.... is SATAN! Yikes. What the hell was that about? Did T. Jefferson Parker just run out of ideas and instead of a decent plot figured he'd just wing it? Add that to a few stereotypic AFT agents, some macho yammering, a little bit of chris...