Great stuff. Box should continue to write short stories, his setup and delivery in the shorter format is terrific. The least, best story here is still good and the vast majority of them are exciting and clever. He sprinkles in enough Pickett stories to keep fans like me happy about that, but really, the other stories are just as strong.

Great setup and there is plenty of suspense and character development along the way. Still, it is very predictable that the good people will survive and the evil will pay the price. A little grittier unpredictability and a few less obvious cliffhangers would be appreciated.

Rutherford’s Paris book was quite good. This one is even better. He is able to unravel the history of the city through
interesting families though the centuries. It is a big and bold undertaking but the results are a painless history lesson
with good storytelling along the way.

This book is almost like a summary of all the Allon books. He brings in all the characters we have come to know. The format is
pleasantly familiar. Gabriel is plucked from solitude, an woman on the inside takes a big risk, the scheme is put together, things go wrong, and we pick up the pieces. I love it! I do question in this story if the price paid for rescue would have been paid. But I can’t wait for the next one.

Edmundson has some interesting things to say about teaching, and you can tell he has been on the frontlines. Some of
the chapters go off on tangents that are not particularly interesting or on point. But when he tells anecdotes, it is enlightening.

A definite improvement over Knott’s last effort. This one has a solid story and has Cole and Hitch on the move to Mexico which was interesting.
It was an enjoyable read and I will be ready for the next one.

A strange book. I actually enjoyed the detail about Bond and how he moved through the book. But the plot is
dreadful, almost doesn’t make sense. I can see how people would grow impatient. But with the plotting disclaimer,
I enjoyed it.

It isn’t easy to move through history and integrate story and real characters, and then make it work. The author does make it work. I love reading about Paris and he really knows his city and its history. Nicely done.

I enjoyed some of the pairings in this book, with stories that held my interest. Sometimes they don’t work, and I didn’t
know a lot of the characters who were part of the pairing in some stories which made it less interesting.
I’m glad they tried it but making a story from two authors and two characters is not a natural.

I read his first book and liked it. This one was a struggle to finish. Turning book publishers into suspense characters isn’t the easiest task, and it didn’t work for me. It was slow, circular and the payoff was paltry.