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A review by baronessekat
Storm Front by Richard Castle
3.0
For what this book is... a novel written as a tie-in to a TV show, it was not bad. But had I gone into this book not knowing anything about Richard Castle (the supposed author) or the TV show, I would have been incredibly disappointed. And even with my knowledge, had I read this book, rather than listening to the CDs in 10-20 bites in the car, I might not have gotten through it. This book hits pretty much every tired espionage thriller trope there could possibly be and then created a few just because.
Derrick Storm is the ultimate CIA supper agent. It's tall, amazingly handsome and breaks as many rules as he follows. The ultimate Mary-Sue. This time he's called in to help solve a series of murders of 5 high dealing bankers and financial traders around the world. He soon realizes that the perp is his arch nemesis whom he thought had been dead for years. He teams up with a Chinese operative, who speaks perfect accent-free English, is drop dead gorgeous and of course female. I'm not sure how her name is spelled as I was listening to the book, but it is pronounced She-bang (her introduction was the first of many eye-rolls for me). Together they find that the one thing that ties all the victims together is the access to a private currency exchange computer system, and that if 6 access codes are used, it would be possible to bring the United States economy crumbling and make the dark ages look like a high society function. Now they must race to find the 6th person before he is killed and the bad guy uses it to destroy the United States.
Like I said, it was OK. Not something I will be rushing out to read any of the other books in this series, though I did read the first 2 in the related Nikki Heat series.
Derrick Storm is the ultimate CIA supper agent. It's tall, amazingly handsome and breaks as many rules as he follows. The ultimate Mary-Sue. This time he's called in to help solve a series of murders of 5 high dealing bankers and financial traders around the world. He soon realizes that the perp is his arch nemesis whom he thought had been dead for years. He teams up with a Chinese operative, who speaks perfect accent-free English, is drop dead gorgeous and of course female. I'm not sure how her name is spelled as I was listening to the book, but it is pronounced She-bang (her introduction was the first of many eye-rolls for me). Together they find that the one thing that ties all the victims together is the access to a private currency exchange computer system, and that if 6 access codes are used, it would be possible to bring the United States economy crumbling and make the dark ages look like a high society function. Now they must race to find the 6th person before he is killed and the bad guy uses it to destroy the United States.
Like I said, it was OK. Not something I will be rushing out to read any of the other books in this series, though I did read the first 2 in the related Nikki Heat series.