Chris Birdy's Blog - Posts Tagged "action"

Of all Robert Crais' novels, this is my favorite. Elvis Cole and Joe Pike together kicking ass and taking names with Pike doing most of the heavy lifting as usual. The story is full of surprise twists and and turns. This one's a must read.

I don't think I've enjoyed an action thriller this much since I finished the last James Bond written by Ian Fleming. Pairing up Captain Willaim Shanahan of Britain's M16 and Jack Gawain, an Irish terrorist serving a life sentence, to take down Operation Blackout is a sure recipe for an action-packed thriller. As the team take on the forces trying to control the world economy, they come to have revelations of defects with their own moral compasses. This is a book for everyone - a truly entertaining page-turner.

Standard II - The Citadel is the second book in this incredible series. M16's William Shanahan is teamed up again with Jack Gawain to get to the core of an arms smuggling gang known as the Citadel. They work with Lucretia Corcosa, the Europol agent. This story starts off with a bang and keeps on going. Reading this made me feel like I was inserted into a James Bond/Jason Bourne thriller that just kept moving with plots and sub-plots until the end. John Dizon is a gifted writer who knows how to take readers on a super-fast, roller coaster ride and then leave them breathless at the end saying, "Wow! I want another ride!"