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Summary: DOA
Review: All I can really tell you about this book (audiobook version) is that I couldn't get beyond the first tape. It seemed to be winding up to very predictable events: jealousies, intense sexual impulses, an almost comotose and paralyzed patient who, you know eventually, is going to tell all by blinking his eyes or wiggling a finger, in the meantime enduring savage behavior at the hands of his wife's former lover. My own prejudice is "move the plot along." If the author can do it with good characterization that's even better, but most mystery genre characters are pretty flat. So is this book.
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Summary: ANOTHER PHIL BROKER SUCCESS.
Review: Chuck Logan has done it again; Phil Broker has to be one of the most interesting protagonists in American fiction today. Nina has broken his heart, but he "keeps on truckin'" and gets the job done. If you haven't met Phil yet, go back and read them in order. You'll be glad you did.
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Summary: 3 Men..A Minnesota Wilderness Trip..Murder..Betrayal..Greed
Review: Greed and betrayal drive this thriller. Three men go into the Minnesota wilderness on a hunting trip...one is a man named Hank who married a much younger woman so beautiful(Joleen)she doesn't seem real. Another is an ex-cop named Phil who just wants to relax. Another is Allen, a surgeon who thinks Hank's wife Joleen is a goddess.
A freak accident combined with the coldest night in Minnesota history, forces one into a coma and the other two to fight for their lives.
Rescue seeming nonexistent, they struggle and pray. Finally getting help, Hank finds himself lost in his own mind and unable to speak or move on his own.
Soon events unfold and one is pronounced a vegetable, his accountant is found dead in the woods. Suspicions of foul play emerge. Phil begins his journey to find the truth and comes upon and is mixed in a tale of twisted greed, revenge, manipulation and lust...leading right back to the beautiful wife. Time is running out...someone is next...
Can Phil solve this deadly trangle? Is someone else involved? Is he next? Very involved and action-packed. Twisted and suspenseful. I was surprised when things were revealed and could not stop turning the pages! A good book for a cold night...
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Summary: 3 Men..A Minnesota Wilderness Trip..Murder..Betrayal..Greed
Review: Greed and betrayal drive this thriller. Three men go into the Minnesota wilderness on a hunting trip...one is a man named Hank who married a much younger woman so beautiful(Joleen)she doesn't seem real. Another is an ex-cop named Phil who just wants to relax. Another is Allen, a surgeon who thinks Hank's wife Joleen is a goddess.
A freak accident combined with the coldest night in Minnesota history, forces one into a coma and the other two to fight for their lives.
Rescue seeming nonexistent, they struggle and pray. Finally getting help, Hank finds himself lost in his own mind and unable to speak or move on his own.
Soon events unfold and one is pronounced a vegetable, his accountant is found dead in the woods. Suspicions of foul play emerge. Phil begins his journey to find the truth and comes upon and is mixed in a tale of twisted greed, revenge, manipulation and lust...leading right back to the beautiful wife. Time is running out...someone is next...
Can Phil solve this deadly trangle? Is someone else involved? Is he next?
Very involved and action-packed. Twisted and suspenseful. I was surprised when things were revealed and could not stop turning the pages! A good book for a cold night...
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Summary: Really Absolute Zero
Review: I find it amazing that the title of this book also serves as an apt description of it's value. Unless of course you're turned on by mindlessly crude language. If the number of "f" words were removed from the book, it would be 100 pages shorter.
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Summary: Really Absolute Zero
Review: I find it amazing that the title of this book also serves as an apt description of it's value. Unless of course you're turned on by mindlessly crude language. If the number of "f" words were removed from the book, it would be 100 pages shorter.
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Summary: Forget John Grisham - try Chuck Logan
Review: I have been home recovering from surgery for a few weeks, so I finally had time to read a few books. I have been waiting for a new book from Logan for too long- his new book in the Phil Broker -Nina Pryce series is outstanding. I couldn't put it down (as opposed to The Summons - by Grisham, which was barely worth reading). Logan's books are full of suspense, and he's developed characters who are worth reading about. If you like james Patterson, Logan is better - and less gruesome. This book is worth checking out.
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Summary: Chiller
Review: Minnesota author Chuck Logan has a wonderful way with words. His new action/thriller/mystery packs more action in the first 70 pages than many do in an entire book. The bone-chilling cold is a major character.
Phil Broker, former undercover cop, guides 3 Twin Citians - a doctor, a lawyer and a writer - in by canoe to shoot a moose among the northern Minnesota lakes of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA - no motorized craft allowed.) "Broker ... speculated that they wouldn't be out here unless it was a once-in-a-lifetime hunting trip. They had won a state lottery that allowed them to take a moose in the Boundary Waters in the 'greatest wilderness, big-game hunt east of the Mississippi.'" "[The water] had never been warm. Even in summer. For thousands of years that gray water had cherished a geologic memory of its glacier mama." They encounter an unexpected October blizzard - akin to the Gales of November that bode ill for the crew of the Edmond Fitzgerald- and a life threatening situation. Two must paddle out to get help: "The doctor, he decided, was used to digital results and was holding nothing but an analog wooden paddle in his hands, so he was more frustrated than fussy. ... The time stretched out in front of them. Old-fashioned, unplugged, slow Real Time with no crowds, no traffic, sirens, TV, telephones, email, or Internet. Just the creak of the canoe, the hiss and slap of the bow cutting the chop, and the dip of the paddles." A routine medical procedure goes awry and Broker makes a trip back to the Twin Cities area to investigate possibly sinister causes: "Broker had always taken back roads and harvest fields for granted, but now he saw that Washington County was running out of them fast. Not more than two miles from J.T.'s place the lumber skeletons of new houses haunted the farmland. That was global warming for you. The Minnesota winters used to keep the population down and the riffraff out." This is a well-written thrill-packed chiller.
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Summary: Minus 459.67 Degrees F
Review: Minus 459.67 Degrees F That's absolute zero, folks. Take a hunting trip on the Boundary Waters of upper Minnesota in the fall, and you get a taste of how it feels. Better yet, get dumped from your canoe and see what the water feels like. You have about ten minutes to ponder this experience; after that, you're dead. Broker had hired on as a guide for three men who had won a statewide lottery giving them a license to hunt moose in the far north of Minnesota. All were competent, if not expert, outdoorsmen and enthusiastic to a fault. Writer, Hal Somers had even delayed a hernia operation so as to not miss the hunt. The other two, a doctor and a lawyer, had left city life behind them. Weather closed in them while they were maneuvering their canoes. The waters boiled up as they fought the blizzard that had descended upon them. Broker's canoe capsized and Somers saved his life, getting him back aboard and paddling powerfully for shore. Somers hernia ruptured during his efforts throwing him in a life-threatening situation on a bleak and isolated island in the wilds. After an heroic effort on the part of the three men, Somers was airlifted by helicopter to the nearest small hospital through the raging blizzard. His life was saved by his fellow hunter who was a surgeon. The surgery was a success only to have Somers go into a coma while he was unattended in the recovery room. Was it negligence or was there evil intent? Chuck Logan is a masterful storyteller. You're on the edge of your seat all the way from the storms inception to the recovery room scenes. While never slowing the pace, Logan allows you to get to know the four men. Even Somers, who is comatose, has his thoughts as he struggles for consciousness. And it is only Somers who knows exactly what has happened--if only he could tell someone. I like the way the author never wastes a word, yet is sensitive to his characters and the surrounding locale. Get a cup of hot chocolate; wrap yourself in your favorite quilt to prepare for some fast moving entertainment!
-sweetmolly-Amazon Reviewer
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Summary: Minus 459.67 Degrees F
Review: Minus 459.67 Degrees F That's absolute zero, folks. Take a hunting trip on the Boundary Waters of upper Minnesota in the fall, and you get a taste of how it feels. Better yet, get dumped from your canoe and see what the water feels like. You have about ten minutes to ponder this experience; after that, you're dead. Broker had hired on as a guide for three men who had won a statewide lottery giving them a license to hunt moose in the far north of Minnesota. All were competent, if not expert, outdoorsmen and enthusiastic to a fault. Writer, Hal Somers had even delayed a hernia operation so as to not miss the hunt. The other two, a doctor and a lawyer, had left city life behind them. Weather closed in them while they were maneuvering their canoes. The waters boiled up as they fought the blizzard that had descended upon them. Broker's canoe capsized and Somers saved his life, getting him back aboard and paddling powerfully for shore. Somers hernia ruptured during his efforts throwing him in a life-threatening situation on a bleak and isolated island in the wilds. After an heroic effort on the part of the three men, Somers was airlifted by helicopter to the nearest small hospital through the raging blizzard. His life was saved by his fellow hunter who was a surgeon. The surgery was a success only to have Somers go into a coma while he was unattended in the recovery room. Was it negligence or was there evil intent? Chuck Logan is a masterful storyteller. You're on the edge of your seat all the way from the storms inception to the recovery room scenes. While never slowing the pace, Logan allows you to get to know the four men. Even Somers, who is comatose, has his thoughts as he struggles for consciousness. And it is only Somers who knows exactly what has happened--if only he could tell someone. I like the way the author never wastes a word, yet is sensitive to his characters and the surrounding locale. Get a cup of hot chocolate; wrap yourself in your favorite quilt to prepare for some fast moving entertainment!
-sweetmolly-Amazon Reviewer
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