Whiplash

Whiplash (FBI Thriller #14)

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In Connecticut, the murder of a pharmaceutical bigwig brings in Savich and Sherlock, along with local Agent Bowie Richards and P.I. Erin Pulaski. Back in Washington, an important U.S. senator is terrorized by an unknown entity, and is calling for Savich's special skills. When the Vice President is nearly killed it's clear these crimes are linked, and Savich and Sherlock mu...more
ebook, 416 pages
Published June 15th 2010 by Jove Books (first published June 1st 2010)
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LibraryLass
I really enjoyed this one as I do most books by Catherine Coulter.

Even though this dealt with fairly heavy subject matter, and there were a couple of bloody spots, I would call this a 'light' read. The romance was next to non-existent, the suspense wasn't all that suspenseful (more of a shocked surprise feeling)... but I enjoyed it all the same. Love revisiting Savich and Sherlock.

I just wish that CC would go back to the way she wrote the beginnings of this series. The first in this series had...more
Marcia Ferguson
This was my first Catherine Coulter, but it won't be my last. Sherlock and Savich are intriguing as a couple, that's for sure. This story had some romance, mystery, thriller aspects, and a touch of mystical, and it was a page-turner.

My frustrations would be that I got a bit lost at the end of the book, as the threads were getting tied up. Might have been my fault, but the explanation seemed a bit wordy and complicated, when the (spoiler) German agent was in the warehouse.

I usually like to deter...more
D. Martin
Like any avid reader, I'm always on the lookout for a new favorite author or series. To that end, I occasionally pick up a "chick lit" thriller in the hopes of being pleasantly surprised. But the truth is that I'm usually disappointed by poor character development, plot holes, and deus ex machina. Unfortunately, this book followed that trend of disappointment for me.

I should've known early. Let me set the stage for the many absurdities in this book. The female private investigator breaks into a...more
David Roth
I have it, and I have it bad. I always have, really, but I don’t think anyone was really certain until the second episode of Gunsmoke in October, 1957, when three of the top four TV shows were Westerns, as were eight of the top twenty-five. Or, just as likely, it could have been the second episode of Lassie, Father Knows Best, or The Red Skelton Show.

I’m pretty certain it wasn’t any episode The December Bride, although that one also met the required prerequisite for inclusion on this list.

If I h...more
Jessi
No romance in this one. Seriously, the more Coulter writes in this series, the more it goes toward the paranormal and less the action/romance series that made it so good. I'll probably keep reading it but I'm getting close to giving up on it.
Private investigate Erin Pulaski snuck into a secured area to prove that the drug company Schiffer Hartwin was purposefully sabotaging their own factories so that a cheap cancer medication would have to be replaced by one still under patent which is much mor...more
Joanne
I eagerly await Savich/Shewlock novels from Catherine Coulter, but Whiplash was a disappointment. I have felt that the last few offerings in the series (this is #14) have been gong downhill and getting a little unbelievable. Sean now has supernatural capabilities. This book started off with a break in at a U.S. office of a global pharmaceutical company. While the culprit is listening to the morning news, she learns that a mutilated body was found in the woods the same night - the woods that were...more
William Bentrim
Whiplash by Catherine Coulter

Coulter is at her best in this book. A complicated, convoluted plot with intense action and lots of mystery characterize the story. New characters provide fresh input even though Savich and Sherlock have personality to spare. Conscience free drug companies and political intrigue round out this captivating story.

Coulter writes a good mystery and keeps one captivated and entertained through out the story. Dillon Savich and his wife Lacey Sherlock are once again in the...more
Alice
I have not read any books by Catherine Coulter, but I was familiar with her name as an author of many books, indicating a certain popularity. Therefore, when I say one of her books offered in a drawing, I signed up and won. Whiplash seems to have a problem as to whether it is a romance novel, a suspense novel, or a paranormal novel. Sherlock and Savish are married FBI agents who have one child. Romance level there is pretty low. The other possibility for romance is between a single father FBI ag...more
Shelly
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Karen
WHIPLASH CATHERINE COULTER
FBI agents Savich and Sherlock are on the case in Connecticut where a brutally murdered German national is found in the park behind the offices of an international pharmaceutical company. At the same time as the murder occurred the offices of the company CEO were broken into by a PI looking for damning information. On another front in Washington a well-known Senator claims his dead wife is visiting him to warn him of danger and people around him are dying or getting hur...more
Elyse
Convoluted mixture of themes and storylines.

Erin Pulaski ... private investigator who masterminds a break-in at a major pharmeceutical company, successfully hacks the CEO's computer because it has a simple password, and then manages to accompany three FBI agents throughout their investigation because she teaches dance to the daughter of one of the agents?

Bowie Richards ... recently promoted as Agent In Charge for FBI district in the northeast, who entrusts his daughter to the care of her dance t...more
Michael
2 1/2 stars

Schiffer Hartwin is the pharmaceutical company that developed Culovort, a drug used to treat patients undergoing chemotherapy. That patent for the drug has expired and profits are lower. Suddenly, the supply of the drug runs out.

Dr. Edward Kinder, whose father is undergoing chemotherapy, hires PI Erin Pulaski to prove that the company is manipulating the supply. Erin breaks into the company offices and steals important papers about the company and the drug. However, she is almost caug...more
Margarks
I never really know what to say about Catherine Coulter's books. They are more of a guilty pleasure for me. The truth is I can't even read them, but I love to listen to them in audiobook format.

I have a thing for overprotective guys in fiction, another guilty pleasure. And it's nice that Savich can be protective of Sherlock without being *too* overbearing. In fact, I think one of the main reasons I keep on going with this series is Savich all by himself. A hot, computer geek, FBI agent? What's...more
Betty410
A great pair of FBI agents are Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock. They are married and have 5 y.o Sean. And they both get into the action which in this story involves a pharmaceutical company with roots in Europe that is cutting down (for profit of course) the production of a generic drug for colon cancer. The reason is not obvious (except for their excuses) because the substitute drug that patients must go to, is expensive and made by a different company in Spain.
Erin Pulaskey, a p.i. is hired b...more
Bea
The intro had me going "OMG, shoot me now". The book centers around a drug company and it's handling of a chemo drug for patients. Coulter apparently feels strongly about drug companies as she shoved down our throats and hammers us on the head with the topic of how drug companies behave and misbehave. Luckily, she quickly moves into the story and eases up on the preaching.

Once she shifts gears, the book becomes tried and true FBI formula. As usual, we see Savich and Sherlock, the married FBI ag...more
Gwen
As I've said before, Catherine Coulter's FBI series is extremely formula-ic. Despite this fact, I can't get enough of the FBI series. It was great to read Coulter's books in current times, as there are little pop-culture items.

A private investigator is hired to figure out why there is a drug shortage. She goes above the call of duty and legality to break into the main office. What she finds there will change her life, especially if she gets caught. That same night a murdered body turns up in a...more
Bob
Savich and Sherloch are called to Connecticut to help the local FBI agent in charge with a murder of a German National on Federal Property. The body was found just outside the HQ of a big pharmaceutical Co. where there has just been a break in. Are the two related, no one is sure but its possible. The murder victim was known to be a troubleshooter for the pharmaceutical. Co. Then Savich is called back to DC to help a Senator who because of his connections has gotten Sacich's help with what appea...more
HJ
Received a free copy via First Reads giveaway.

Sigh. Where to start?

Okay, positives. Though it started a bit slow, in the long run, the book kept me reading until the end. Well, maybe that was because I felt obligated to finish it so I could give an honest review.

Yeah.

I knew going in (and having read some of the other reviews) that this was not really a romantic suspense. What I didn't realize was that not only wasn't it a romance (at all), it also wasn't much of a suspense, either. Oh wait, the...more
Darla Tastad mcgranaghan
Coulter writes a good mystery and keeps one captivated and entertained through out the story. Dillon Savich and his wife Lacey Sherlock are once again in the thick of things.
Coulter appears to use them as the glue to tie her books together. Erin and Bowie could carry the story line in a stand alone, separate novel. Savich and Sherlock’s interaction with each other and Erin and Bowie is fun to read. Perhaps more than many of Coulter’s book which often are not intended to exercise your intellect...more
Patricia Solla
Dillion and Savich are back once again with murder and attempted murder to resolve. The story (actually two stories) bounces back and forth between Connecticut and Washington DC. There's a little pyshic business involved but mostly it's just research and footwork to find the perps. There's lots going on and we meet another FBI agent and a PI involved with exposing a drug company for some kind of practice dealing with a life saving generic drug and a replacement drug costing more in both usage an...more
E.
Sherlock and Savich are involved with a murder that may be related to an investigation into a drug company that is possibly manipulating the market. A separate psychic investigation into a senator being visited by an eerie spector keeps Savich from being able to provide sufficient support to Sherlock but she is assisted by FBI agent Bowie Richards and his daughter's ballet teacher, Erin Pulaski, who is also a private investigator with a personal connection to the case. The body count rises and i...more
Ronna
FBI Special Agents Sherlock and Savich are thrown in the middle of two mysteries.In one, a pharmaceutical company has shut down their production of a great, but cheap, cancer drug so that patients must go to another expensive less successful drug.At the same time they've been called to a Senator's home because he's been seeing apparitions of his dead wife from his bedroom window.

Mixed in with these mysteries are single father, and FBI Agent, Richards who hires Erin, his daughter's ballet teacher...more
Kaye
Savich and Sherlock, married FBI agents are in action once again. Two plots, a ghost and threat to a US Senator and a breakin and murder at a pharmacudical company. I had forgotten how much I liked this clean series. Unfortunately this wasn't the writers best. The Pharmacudical company has problems putting out a cancer drug forcing patients to purchase an extremely expensive alternative. The murderer was easy to spot but there was some minimal twists. Also this book didn't have much in the way o...more
Kathy
Catherine Coulter (romance and suspense) is always at the top of my list of reads, but her books are not what they used to be.

Her main characters (Savich and Sherlock) have lost their chemistry. The budding love affair between two new characters in this book is predictable and filled with actions I just couldn't see happening in real life. There were too many times when I would shake my head over the dialog... too unrealistic. She involves children in the story, but their input doesn't feel app...more
Carol
Another excellent book in the FBI Thriller series. It was nice to have agents Sherlock & Savich back as main characters and not just dropped into the book the way it has felt in some cases.
I would have given the book 5 stars, but I found a research error that disturbed me. On page 303, the character Valenti says "Three years ago, when I was in my third term as governor" referring to his time as Governor of Virginia. In the state of Virginia, Governors serve only one 6 year term. I absorb so...more
Pam
As a resident of Metropolitan Washington, one of my pet peeves is when authors use made up streets and locations. In this Savich and Sherlock thriller, one of the incidental characters is in a hospital that doesn't exist AND has served three terms as governor of Virginia. While not impossible, Virginia is a single term governor state so he would have been serving those terms across a minimum of 20 years. This kind of thing distracts me from the story.

Otherwise, I got exactly what I expected from...more
Carolyn
There's a really good story line here. I was frustrated by the cardboard characters, Shame on you, Publishers Weekly, for publishing a cover review stating '...well developed characters...'. Just not true. I wonder how author Coulter could write umpteen best-selling thrillers while failing to bring any substance to her characters. And what does that say about the 'best sellers' reading populace?!

I don't recommend you spend your time on this book. I do recommend the author work on humanizing her...more
Kay
This is another of those fast-paced vacation reads that I enjoyed. It is filled with shockers about "who-dun-it" and involves some of my favorite government agents, the husband-and-wife-team of Sherlock and Savich. Coulter's books are usually exciting stories to read without undue sex, romance, and graphic violence, thus making them a real pleasure to read. The story line includes a pharmaceutical company profiteering from cancer drugs, a senator who claims to be haunted by his dead wife, and th...more
Sheila Guevin
I have a passion for books set near where I live or travel.

Coulter's characters a dance teacher/private investigator and a handful of FBI ageants (both male and female) are caught up in a clever mystery about a drug company doing bad things. Woven into the plot is a second mystery involving a kind widowed aging Senator and his gone off the tracks two adult - spoied brat- sons.

Mix in a splash of DC and its politics and you get a page turning delight!

A nice blend of mystery and story, while at th...more
Debra S
I received this book several weeks ago through GoodReads First Read from the publisher, Putnam. Kudos to Putnam and to Coulter for a very entertaining read. This is the first title in the FBI Thriller series that I have come across, but it won't be the last one I read.

I liked the main characters, Sherlock and Savich. The touch of paranormal surprised me but didn't put me off as that is a genre I also enjoy. Richards and Pulaski were a nice addition with the budding romance thrown in.

The two sto...more
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