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Kidnap & Ransom
- Sales Rank: #2490238 in Books
- Brand: Mira
- Published on: 2010-11-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.62" h x 1.03" w x 4.21" l,
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 416 pages
- Great product!
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Red-Hot Concept, Lukewarm Execution
By TJ Mccarthy
Kidnapping has turned into an international growth industry, and this book showcases two competing firms that negotiate hostage releases and occasionally resort to tactical operations when negotiations fail. The head of the largest, Tyr Group, is himself kidnapped, and Tyr sends in a team to rescue him. Headed by Riley, the team is ambushed and Riley is also taken prisoner. In the next chapter, Riley, co-founder of competing Longhorn Group, finds out about the situation. Huh? When you get to this point, you have to go back and re-read things a couple of times, and then read to the end of the chapter, so you can find out that there are two Rileys: Mark who was kidnapped, and his brother Jake who will be heading up another rescue effort. I'm sure this deliberate confusion gave the author a nice laugh, but it's a great way to ensure that readers won't be repeat customers.
Now Mark, whose girlfriend Kelly was an FBI agent until her foot got blown off, heads to Mexico. Kelly insists in going with him, even though she's not particularly mobile and will be clearly be doing things the FBI would not approve of. Jake's team runs into a second Tyr team, nobody trusts anybody else, and only Jake's partner Cyd seems to have contacts who know anything -- why heck, they know everything. She can also snap her fingers and have an entire arsenal appear, much to Tyr's chagrin. By the most incredible coincidence, they stumble into a pharmacist whose father is held prisoner with Tyr's folks, and she knows where they are. Via a shaky alliance, the teams join forces. Meanwhile Kelly, who decided this wasn't such a good idea after all, goes off to search for the suspect in one of her previous cases, who supposedly was dead, but in fact is living right there in Mexico City.
There's a lot going on here, and it's faintly ridiculous to have two wildly improbable events happening at the exact same time in almost the exact same place. Concentrating on either story could have made for a compelling book, but mixing them results in a muddle. It doesn't help that there are factual errors that the editor should have caught. For example: A civilian employee working on a military base can *not* go to the base hospital to get treatment, far less be forced to; she'll get that at a civilian hospital. If you're under a dock where sticks of dynamite are connected with primacord, and you see a flash from the cord, you will *not* have time to pull out your knife and try to cut the cord. At 7000 meters/sec burn rate, the flash and the bang will be nearly simultaneous. Nor will you simply walk away dazed afterwards. If you go to a US Embassy after hours, you will *not* be told that everybody is sleeping, especially after you flash your FBI shield. And an active FBI agent buying black market C4 and using it to blow holes in architectural sites ... YBGSM!
There are some awfully good parts to this book, and the writing is compelling at times. If it wasn't so far from being believable, I would certainly have recommended it.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Almost Perfect Thriller! Almost!
By Sylviastel
Michelle Gagnon's novel involving a kidnapping and ransom in Mexico is not only timely and relevant but thrilling as well to the reader. I have to admit that I had a slow start in getting into the story but once in, you are forever kept in suspense regarding Calderon's kidnapping by Las Zetas. I will say that Gagnon has developed the story from just a mere kidnapping into a twist and turns at every corner as well.
She brings interesting characters like Kelly Jones whose leg was amputated and is still struggling to get back into her life again. I found her to be the most interesting female character in this novel. Then there is Syd who is an agent and just as determined to attain power in a mostly male dominated world. Kelly and Syd don't always get along and they only have to get the job done. Then there is the Mexican pharmacist, Isabela, who wants her father rescued from the Mexican Mafia prisons where they kidnap people and hold them for ransom. But there's more to this story than just simple kidnapping and ransom.
The author opens a door to a world in Mexico that is simply not talked about enough in today's times. Las Zetas are a powerful, military, illegal terrorist organization even among their own people where they obtain their wealth and power by terrorizing their own country's people. They kidnap and hold for ransom. But if they don't get their money, well you can figure that out.
I also found the relationships among the characters to be believable as well. They went to Mexico to rescue Calderon and that was just the beginning. The novel reveals layers and opens doors to more storylines, twists, and turns regarding the truth and more.
Without spoiling the novel, it's a worthy read. Even though I am not a big fiction fan, I commend Michelle Gagnon for writing an excellent thriller novel. But I couldn't give it five stars because I felt that there were times when I was having trouble following the storyline, the characters, and plot. I think the author needed to focus on clarity especially if the reader wants to keep reading to the end. I felt that a little better organization would have gone a long way in explaining some of the plots.
Still, it was a good thriller book and I hope that they make a movie about it because it's rare to have strong female characters like Kelly, Syd, and Isabella among the men. I like the fact that these women hold their own with the men in this book. That's why women writers like Gagnon are so important in making the female characters on par with their male counterparts and I liked that. Not all women want to be taken care of, some want the adventure and thrill that their men get as well out there in the world.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
"The guard's body was buffeted by bullets, making him jump and twitch like a rag doll."
By Mark Louis Baumgart
****very minor spoiler in the first paragraph****
Cesar Calderon is the head of the Tyr Global Corp., the world's leader in the kidnap and ransom game. As he leaves a meeting for a quick smoke, his bodyguard is murdered, and ironically, he is kidnapped. Then the novel starts proper, and the Tyr's situation goes from bad to a "clusterf---k" as one character will later describe it. Tyr sends in a rescue team only to find out that they have been set-up, that there is a traitor amongst them, and the rescuers are killed or captured. Among those captured by the militaristic Los Zetas is Mark Riley, Jake Riley's bigger, badder, and more experienced brother, with whom Jake is estranged.
Meanwhile, Kelly Jones, is recuperating from her last escapade. In her last novel, Jones was caught in an explosion when she went up against America's conservative white racist movement, during which she was traumatized, put into a coma, and lost her leg in an explosion. As Riley's rescue group is decimated, she is undergoing physical therapy to strengthen her body, and learning to use her prosthetic leg.
This is a multi-multi-perspective novel that will fracture into many, many viewpoints, so there is another "meanwhile". Chris Riley, the brother of Jake and Mark travels to the Longhorn Group to see Jake. Chris informs Jake and Jake's partner, the beautiful, and trigger-happy, Syd Clement what has happened to Mark. Jake's Longhorn Group is in the same business of kidnap and rescue, and he feels that now it's up to him to rescue his brother. Tyr can't be trusted, so Jake, Syd, and some of their trusted operatives decide to go down to Mexico and get Mark, and his crew, back home.
The friction that started in the last novel between Syd and Kelly has grown even more acrimonious. Against Syd's wishes, "that useless redhead" (Kelly) shoehorns herself into the rescue operation in a need to prove herself after her maiming.
The fact is, Kelly is clearly out of her league on the search and rescue mission, and everybody knows it. Against her better wishes, but with Jake's insistence, she is cut from the team after she comes in second in a run-in with some local nasties, and another massive Tyr rescue group. This one is officially led by the ambitious pencil pusher and operative wannabe Linus Smiley, but in reality, it is lead by Lt. Brown, who owes Cesar a big debt and aims to pay it off come hell or high water.
Get your flow charts ready as things are going to get really complicated. Now dismissed from the rescue team, Kelly is free to pursue her real goal; to track down the insane serial killer Stefan Gundarsson, her old protagonist from "The Tunnels", Gagnon's first novel. Though nobody believes Kelly, Gundarsson's back, and hard at work in Mexico City's "pepenadores", Mexico City's city dump, and she's going to track Gundarsson down, and put to rest once and for all the ghosts that have been haunting her from her first case. Her fears become reality as her run-in with Gundarsson goes down with less success that she would have hoped for as he gets away and she gets arrested. Old partner and series regular Danny Rodriguez (first seen in "The Tunnels" as a newbie FBI agent) comes to spring her from jail.
Then Mark in his effort to collect drugs and supplies to help one of his wounded mates gets mixed up with the waifish Isabela Garcia, who will help them get their captured mates out of stir if they rescue her kidnapped poppa. But, can she be trusted?
Then the plot fractures even more and we all give up and throw away our flow charts and just go with the flow, as Jake and Syd kinda, sorta, team-up with Brown to rescue Cesar; Mark & company escape, then are split up; other members of the various rescue groups are separated from the main groups, are captured, or infiltrate the Los Zetas kidnap camp, and there will be subterfuge, double crosses, triple-crosses, and just plain betrayals. There will be a war between Los Zetas, another cartel, and the Mexican Army. And the novel is far from over.
And while all of this is happening Kelly and Danny are tramping around the pepenadores, investigating ancient ruins, creating an international incident, and trying to keep the psycho Gundarsson from skinning anybody else.
Whew, and I'm not even touching on all of the twists and turns of this novel, this novel made my head hurt, and I had to lie down for awhile. Gagnon has shown more and more confidence in her authorial abilities as each seceding novel has become longer, more complicated, and containing less and less filler. At four hundred and eleven pages, this is one rootin', tootin', lean, adult action and suspense novel. You have to be dead from the head up not to appreciate this novel. Gagnon is also not afraid to take risks with her characters, she killed off Kelly's partner in her first novel, and almost killed, and DID main Kelly in her third. With this novel you will realize that Job and Sisyphus had it easy, because after finishing this novel, what more can Gagnon do to Kelly? You don't have had to have read the previous books in this series to read this novel, but the full impact of this novel and its ending will be more appreciated if you have read them.
If this were a fair world, these books would be made into movies, and Gagnon up there in the superstar leagues. She writes as tough a thriller as any of the male writers, and Kelly is as tough and determined as any male thriller star, but it's not a fair world, we all know that. But, maybe someday. . .
I have read and reviewed these other Michelle Gagnon/Kelly Jones thrillers for this site:
Kelly Jones #1: The Tunnels (Kelly Jones Novels)
Kelly Jones #2: Boneyard
Kelly Jones #3: The Gatekeeper
There is also a Kelly Jones short story in Fresh Kills, Tales from the Kill Zone.
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