It's a Mad Mad World

Publisher: Tantor

Page count: 379

 

The Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico washes a cache of doomsday weapons onto a Mexican beach: bombs filled with VX nerve gas mixed with anthrax, invented by the Nazis during World War II and perfected by the United States to use in the Cold War. The bombs soon fall into the wrong hands and create an unstoppable opponent. Only one Chicago Police detective has a chance of preventing those bombs from being used on American soil.

 

Reeling from the recent murder of her husband as well as allegations of police misconduct, Detective Superstition “Sue” Davis is thrown into an undercover assignment. She must infiltrate the Mexican narcotics cartel responsible for the death of her husband in order to get close to the cartel’s sociopathic enforcer, Jiminez “Jimmy” Garcia.

But when the entire Garcia family is killed in Mexico by a U.S. Special Forces raid gone wrong, Garcia will stop at nothing to get vengeance, including triggering newly acquired bombs on American soil. Superstition’s assignment quickly becomes more dangerous than planned as the threat of a terrorist attack looms closer.

 

“A fireball of awesome!” —Joshua Corin, award-winning author of Cost of Life

“Tension and turmoil add up to high-stakes suspense as the characters are skillfully played across a global chessboard. Written like a born bard of old, you won’t be disappointed. But be warned, treachery comes from all directions, even those that cannot be seen.”—Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author of The Patriot Threat

 

Review

 

The Fury is a fast-paced action book with more tender moments then I'm used to when it comes to these kinds of books.  

For one thing, Jimmy Garcia the main baddie in this story has a soft spot for his sister; I'm more used to villains that are so bad that they seem inhuman. But this book manage to create a villain that is a drug lord, but as I now and then feel for because how much he loves his sister and how much she loves him. And, that my friends make it hard to read because at the same time he is the evil drug lord that killed Superstition Davis husband in cold blood. And, let's face it he isn't a good man. It's just while I read I could see other sides of him that showed him to be a caring brother. And, that makes him so human, he has chosen a path in life with violence and death and that will in the end as it usually does claim him too. That felt real. I dislike reading about villains that are so flat when it comes to their characters that they seem to be molded at out the same mold at the villain factory. They are not human, they are a cliché.

But anyway, then we have superchick Superstition Davis and I liked her, she is a tough woman, who is hell bent on revenging her husband. But she is the one in the story that seems a bit to perfect, to touch to good with fighting. She is the James Bond of the story, whatever you throw at her, she will come out victorious. That can be too much sometimes, even for me. And, also it took 80% of the book to know what happened to her twins, they are mentioned through the book several times and frankly it became a bit annoying to wait for it to be reveled why they did. I'm all for holding in information, but come one. Sooner or later the waiting just becomes a bit too much.

 

The story is fast-paced as I wrote before, just as an action book should be. Short chapters and everything that makes you read on because “you know just one more chapter”. But I found it a bit confusing in the beginning because every short chapter introduced some new characters and it felt that they were quite many and as the chapters are short you really didn't have the time to get to know anyone before it was time to shift to the next character or let's jump to the past. It took a while for me to really get a hang on it, but I still had a bit of a problem reading the book because of all the abrupt character changes. I love short chapters, but sometimes it just gets a bit too much and the flow of the story gets interrupted a bit too often.

But it's not at all bad, these are just the things that I had problems with and made me not being able to give a higher rating. I still found the book to be enjoyable to read and I would like to read more about Superstition “Sue” Davis especially after that particularly ending.

 

About Shane Gericke

 

Bestselling novelist Shane Gericke is the author of Torn Apart, which was short-listed for the prestigious Thriller Award and named a Book of the Year by Suspense magazine. Shane spent twenty-five years as a newspaper editor, most prominently at the Chicago Sun-Times, before jumping into fiction. He lives in the Chicago suburb of Naperville. Visit him at shanegericke.com.

 

Shane Gericke’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

 

Friday, August 21st: BookBub – author guest post, “13 Hair-raising Books on the Global War on Terrorism”

Monday, August 24th: Books that Hook

Wednesday, August 26th: Vic’s Media Room

Thursday, August 27th: Life is Story

Monday, August 31st: Dwell in Possibility

Tuesday, September 1st: Mallory Heart Reviews

Tuesday, September 8th: SJ2B House of Books

Wednesday, September 9th: It’s a Mad Mad World

Thursday, September 10th: The World As I See It

Friday, September 11th: From the TBR Pile

Monday, September 14th: Patricia’s Wisdom

Wednesday, September 16th: Thoughts on This ‘n That

Thursday, September 17th: Lilac Reviews