There are a lot of things I like about the Fox and O'Hare series. Here are a few of them.The dialog is often hilarious and makes me laugh.
The over-the-top action hardly ever lets up.
The characters are amusing, right down the the most minor ones.
The plotting is excellent, with two or three major twists along the way. In The Scam, the whole story seems to veer suddenly in a new direction early on, but it's all a part of the whole, as we discover later.
The capers and cons are well conceived and described.
The local color in the exotic settings is excellent (surely Lee Goldberg must be loving his tax-deductible research trips).
The stories are pure escapism in the best sense, and they make for sock-o entertainment. I don't know why the movies haven't snapped these books up. Maybe they have.
Okay, that's enough of that. The caper this time involved taking down the owner of a couple of multi-million-dollar casinos, one in Las Vegas and one in Macau. Fox and O'Hare run up against a good many obstacles. Do they succeed? What do you think? I laughed, I sighed, I had a great time reading this.
Warning: There's a cliffhanger ending. Some people might object to that. If you're one of them, don't say I didn't tell you.
4 comments:
My favorite character is her father.
Jeff
He has some really good lines in this one.
OK, I moved it to the top of the TBR pile. It was on Jackie's pile, which is why I'd forgotten we had it.
Well, once again I get sucked into buying books based on your recommendations. Good think you are a reliable source. (Bought the first 3, will wait to buy the 4th until I've read the earlier ones and/or until the price comes down.)
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