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Reckless LP: A Novel (Ty Hauck #3)
by
Andrew Gross (Goodreads Author)
Ty Hauck is shattered by the news. A close friend from his past, along with her husband and daughter, has been brutally murdered in her home by vicious intruders. Now he will risk everything he loves to avenge her death. . . .
A wealthy banker, seeing his world about to crumble around him, knows his family is in unfathomable danger. . . .
A U.S. government agent watches
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April 27th 2010
by HarperLuxe
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Ty Hauck is back but has given up his position on the police force for a private security investigator for a posh security firm.
Hauck finds himself being drawn back into police work when he finds that a very dear friend has been murdered with her husband and daughter. He husband, an investor, has been found to have made investments that have come back to cause the downfall of the investment firm he worked for.
Several days later, another investor is found murdered and he ...more
Hauck finds himself being drawn back into police work when he finds that a very dear friend has been murdered with her husband and daughter. He husband, an investor, has been found to have made investments that have come back to cause the downfall of the investment firm he worked for.
Several days later, another investor is found murdered and he ...more
This wasn’t too bad. You can definitely tell Gross is a student of James Patterson’s method, because the book is filled with short and punchy chapters. He’s done a good job capitalizing on the current economic climate, showing us a worst-case scenario, of sorts. Unfortunately, financial storylines tend to make my brain shut off, so I should have known that I wouldn’t love this. The good thing is, I was able to follow what was going on enough to get it. Hauck isn’t a bad character — he’s one of...more
Ty Hauck is shattered by the news. A close friend from his past, along with her husband and daughter, has been brutally murdered in her home by vicious intruders. Now he will risk everything he loves to avenge her death. . . .
A wealthy banker, seeing his world about to crumble around him, knows his family is in unfathomable danger. . . .
A U.S. government agent watches the sudden bank transfers of millions in cash and suspects that this is the first step in a plot to unl...more
A wealthy banker, seeing his world about to crumble around him, knows his family is in unfathomable danger. . . .
A U.S. government agent watches the sudden bank transfers of millions in cash and suspects that this is the first step in a plot to unl...more
If you only recognize Andrew Gross’s name from his seven-year writing partnership with James Patterson, it’s time to take a fresh look at this author. “Reckless”, his newest novel, is simply exceptional. Emotionally captivating from the first page, Gross intricately builds layers of tension, dread and suspense as he delves into the worst-case scenario of the world’s financial collapse.
Ty Hauck believes he’s happy. At least as happy as he feels he has the right to be, until the morni...more
Ty Hauck believes he’s happy. At least as happy as he feels he has the right to be, until the morni...more
Ty Hauck is shattered by the news. A close friend from his past, along with her husband and daughter, has been brutally murdered in her home by vicious intruders. Now he will risk everything he loves to avenge her death. A wealthy banker, seeing his world about to crumble around him, knows his family is in unfathomable danger. A U.S. government agent watches the sudden bank transfers of millions of dollars and suspects that this is the first step in a plot to unleash a wave of global panic. Priv...more
Another excellent thriller/mystery novel by Andrew Gross. Ty Hauck has a job at Talon Security, when he hears that a friend from his past has been murdered in a breakin along with her husband, a well respected trader on Wall Street. However, it comes out shortly thereafter that the trader had engaged in financial fraud. Ty goes to the house and immediately suspects that the breakin is not what it seems. When a suicide occurs of another influential trader, who also apparently made illicit trad...more
Andrew Gross has had a seven-year partnership with James Patterson and it shows. I'm mixed about James Patterson who I thought wrote some great books early in his career - the first Alex Cross books were truly outstanding thrillers - and then became, quite frankly, a hack spewing out indifferent thrillers back-to-back. Andrew Gross has benefited in a sense from both sides of this equation - he's definitely learned the elements of a successful thriller and he's definitely learned to spew out th...more
Ty Hauck is a private security investigator. Ty was flipping through television channels when he came upon a heard line breaking story…a family was killed in their home, in what authorities are reporting seems to be a break-in gone terribly wrong. Ty is shocked not for the heinous crime but because he knew the wife. She was an old, dear friend.
Marc Glassman worked in Wall Street. He was a good family man. So why was his family killed? That is the million dollar question. Ty gets inv...more
Marc Glassman worked in Wall Street. He was a good family man. So why was his family killed? That is the million dollar question. Ty gets inv...more
A really good read and probably alot better than Andrew Gross' other independant work. Definately a lot better than the previous two Ty Hauck novels. This book read more like some of the work the author has previously done with James Patterson than some of the stuff he has done on his own and his best effort since the Blue Zone. I liked the way when describing the state of the economic markets Gross dropped in names such as Fannie, Freddie, Lehman, and AIG that have actually been victims in the ...more
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After a prologue set in London, in which a wealthy, Westernized Saudi Arabian financier receives an unwelcome phone call informing him that "the planes are in the air," this enthralling tale of murder and financial conspiracy starts off shockingly with a break-in at the Greenwich, Connecticut, home of equities trader Marc Glassman that results in a multiple murder.
Ty Hauck, a former police detective who is now an investigator for a private security firm, was a friend of one...more
Ty Hauck, a former police detective who is now an investigator for a private security firm, was a friend of one...more
I don't normally pick up books like this, I have to be in a rare mood to read a thriller, but something about the Goodreads description intrigued me to enter the giveaway and lo and behold, I won. This book is apparently third in a series, but that fact had no impact on the storyline at all. It read like it's own, independent novel and it was a nice change of pace from what I have been reading lately.
When a friend from investigator Ty Hauck's past is murdered, he finds himself trying...more
When a friend from investigator Ty Hauck's past is murdered, he finds himself trying...more
Book 3, in the Ty Hauck series
As the first chapters unfold, we are slowly introduced to the characters that will take part in this mystery. A major change has Ty Hauck, Mr. Gross’s protagonist, moving on from his former job as police detective to an important post at a corporate security firm.
The story begins when a close friend from Ty’s past, April Glassman, is found brutally murdered in her home along with her husband and daughter. The firm in a gesture to one of their fa...more
As the first chapters unfold, we are slowly introduced to the characters that will take part in this mystery. A major change has Ty Hauck, Mr. Gross’s protagonist, moving on from his former job as police detective to an important post at a corporate security firm.
The story begins when a close friend from Ty’s past, April Glassman, is found brutally murdered in her home along with her husband and daughter. The firm in a gesture to one of their fa...more
So you read the stories in the news and seem them on CNN about market manipulation, the benefits to some investment houses of government prop-ups, brokers who are found dead or commit suicide, but it's hard to thread all of these items into a narrative. In Reckless, Andrew Gross has done so, and the result is a scary story, compelling story that seems that seems familiar. It's the kind of novel that promotes such a better understanding of the deviousness of investment firms that it could cause...more
I'm sad to be done with Ty Hauck. The 3 books in this series were all great. Reckless, was very much so the best of all 3 only because it tied up so many lose ends. I wasn't happy about how one of the major topics in the story ended, without spoiling it for anyone, it wasn't anything that effects the story line but it was a large topic. So with the way that it ended, it had me wondering "is that how that part is going to end? That's it?"
But.. that really doesn't make any dif...more
But.. that really doesn't make any dif...more
I won this book through GoodReads.
Reckless is fast-paced with a lot happening to keep you on the edge of your seat. It revolves around the collapse of the U.S. economy and the murder of an entire family. Ty Hauck, a former NYPD lieutenant, who is currently an investigator for a private global-securities firm knew one of the victims from his past and decides to look into the case. While trying to solve the crime he also comes to realize some of the reasons the economy is failing a...more
Reckless is fast-paced with a lot happening to keep you on the edge of your seat. It revolves around the collapse of the U.S. economy and the murder of an entire family. Ty Hauck, a former NYPD lieutenant, who is currently an investigator for a private global-securities firm knew one of the victims from his past and decides to look into the case. While trying to solve the crime he also comes to realize some of the reasons the economy is failing a...more
This is an insighful and eyeopening look and the Wall Street Financial disaster of lending houses, stock market and brokers. Very fast paced events. Gross brings you storming through this book with TY- the exNYPD , ex Greenwich Ct detective now in private practice with a Security firm- who happens on the 3rd ( or one of the 3) top cases of his career.
Andrew Gross is capable of making his charachters bigger than life, yet always showing their human side- I have enjoyed all his books...more
Andrew Gross is capable of making his charachters bigger than life, yet always showing their human side- I have enjoyed all his books...more
This third book in the Hauck series really kept me turning the pages, and Andrew Gross seems to have finally gotten a competent proof reader as well. It was a great story, although a bit far-fetched. Hauck is once again chasing the bad guys, and with the government's blessing, although he has retired from the police force. The premise is a bit far-fetched, and what is deemed to be ironclad evidence sometimes seems like it would be thrown out of court as circumstantial in the real world, but...more
I have never read a novel by Andrew Gross, but have enjoyed Gross's joint ventures in writing with James Patterson. Gross and Patterson both employ the short chapter that tricks a reader into completing another chapter. Both men utilize a range of characters and settings that force the reader to continue reading just to discover what is happening. This novel centers on a worldwide plot to topple the financial world that reeks of reality. Has the world become like King Midas who never has eno...more
I hope that Gross continues this Ty Hauck series. The character has grown so much since the first book in the series. What was once a broken man just trying to make it has developed into a self-assured hero.
Besides the lead, there are many key characters in this book, so you have to pay attention or you will find yourself flipping back to figure things out. Even so, the story flowed naturally and Gross didn't do what most writers do by tying everything up in a nice little bow.
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Besides the lead, there are many key characters in this book, so you have to pay attention or you will find yourself flipping back to figure things out. Even so, the story flowed naturally and Gross didn't do what most writers do by tying everything up in a nice little bow.
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I won this book through GoodReads. (You're required to disclose if you got a book free in your online reviews now. It's some government regulation.)
Reckless by Andrew Gross starts off like one of those old episodes of Columbo where you see the crime and know whodunit but then get to watch Detective Columbo solve it. However, in this case, each piece of the puzzle reveals a much bigger picture and a much wider conspiracy than originally imagined. In any other mystery/thriller, the ...more
Reckless by Andrew Gross starts off like one of those old episodes of Columbo where you see the crime and know whodunit but then get to watch Detective Columbo solve it. However, in this case, each piece of the puzzle reveals a much bigger picture and a much wider conspiracy than originally imagined. In any other mystery/thriller, the ...more
It was really clever for Andrew Gross to create a story plot surrounding the recent economic crisis and bring current events into play. I loved the characters- Ty Hauck, an ex cop whose life gets pretty exciting when he sees some bad news about an old friend on the TV, and Agent Blum who is used to sitting behind a desk at the Treasury Department until a certain file comes her way. It was fast paced and exciting at times. It didn't keep me up at night yearning to see what happens next, and whe...more
Struggled to finish it; picked up a bit only towards the end. Rather long, rather an implausible story, especially when the Americans waltz into Serbia with guns and such and barge into apartments and follow people and so on. When the author tries to weave in events in the life of Ty Hauck and that has no connection with the larger story, it is a bit of a drag. People like Peter Robinson and Henning Mankell who also have written multiple books based on one character, get this, and so those stori...more
It makes you think about the financial crash of September 2008 and what really might have happened. Goldman Sachs? Reynolds Reid? You make the call but it gives a whole new meaning to words "terrorist attack". What if people in the US colluded with money people from the Middle East to bring down our financial system to the detriment of all the US shareholders and investments. The pivotal phrase "the planes are in the air" started it all.
President Obama has lo...more
President Obama has lo...more
What I would really like is for Andrew Gross to get an editor, or if he has one a GOOD one!! This book was littered with typing errors and grammatical mistakes that made me cringe. It was also a little confusing for one chapter to mention a characters son (Zach) then in a later chapter a typo called Zach a "daughter". The character only has one child!! If the author doesn't know who he's writing about then how are we, the readers, supposed to keep up?! It's a shame because this could h...more
I had won this book from GoodReads. This is the first solo novel of Andrew Gross that I've read (it won't be the last) and I now fully understand why James Patterson has chosen him as a co-author on several books. Murder, global financial manipulation, international intrigue and executive misconduct are all at play here in a compelling mix that's bound to keep readers glued to the page. There's plenty of twists and turns to capture and hold your attention and the end is filled with not one, not...more
Quote: Private security investigator Ty Hauck, with Naomi Blum, a tenacious agent from the U.S. Department of Treasury, unravels the evidence that joins these seemingly unrelated events—revealing a reckless scheme that stretches from New York to London to central Europe and gives new meaning to the phrase "too big to fail." What began with a tragedy that opened a door to Hauck's past—a door that he thought was long closed—ends with a frantic race to avert a disaster that could shake th...more
In Andrew Gross’ latest thriller, Reckless, he takes on the big issue of the failing economy and creates a fast-paced, action-packed plot that will leave you hanging on to ever word wondering how some dead bodies relate to the collapse of the US economy.
The book begins with the horrific murder of an entire family in an upper class idyllic town in Connecticut. The police think the case solved with a robbery gone bad, but former NYPD lieutenant Ty Hauck, who is now an investigator for...more
The book begins with the horrific murder of an entire family in an upper class idyllic town in Connecticut. The police think the case solved with a robbery gone bad, but former NYPD lieutenant Ty Hauck, who is now an investigator for...more
KarenC
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readers who enjoy conspiracy theories of world events
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Author's name from works w/ Patterson & Gr giveaway
Received via Goodreads giveaway program - thanks folks! My first Andrew Gross solo title; enjoyed his work with James Patterson on Women's Murder Club titles, as well as Judge and Jury.
Reminded me of Christopher Reich's early finance books, but with shorter chapters. Grounded in "current" events, so much so that I had to wonder where Gross got his information and whether there should be investigations underway looking for a similar world-wide financial conspiracy. My lack of understan
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This is a First Reads book giveaway review.
I'm a pretty big fan of the urban fantasy genre so I've read a lot of private detective types of thriller/mysteries. I think that played into a bit of how I received this story. It had it's fast pace moments, but compared to the ridiculous speed of UF, it almost seemed slow. That's not necessarily the fault of the book itself, just the way I read it. So, if you don't typically read really fast paced mysteries/fantasies the speed at wh...more
I'm a pretty big fan of the urban fantasy genre so I've read a lot of private detective types of thriller/mysteries. I think that played into a bit of how I received this story. It had it's fast pace moments, but compared to the ridiculous speed of UF, it almost seemed slow. That's not necessarily the fault of the book itself, just the way I read it. So, if you don't typically read really fast paced mysteries/fantasies the speed at wh...more
Another solid entry in the Ty Hauck series. The worldwide financial crisis serves as the basis for the plot as Ty, now a security firm investigator, is asked to help out an influential client who has intuitive misgivings about her latest boy toy. Things are indeed off kilter and Ty ramps up the action to figure out how all of the various suspicious deaths, investment groups collapsing, and shadowy financers and government officials are interconnected. The book is an enjoyable read.
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