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Summary: JACK BE NIMBLE
Review: There is a strong moral dilemma in this book by former footballer/now lawyer Tim Green. This being the first book I've read by the prolific author, I found his style assuring, focused and engaging. He slows the pace down sometimes at crucial points and he occasionally stretches the boundaries of belief, but this is a moral tale: what would you do?
Jack Ruskin is certainly righteous in his desire to rid the world of predators that have been allowed to roam on the streets due to the unavoidable fractures in our legal system.
Is he wrong? Well, I found myself rooting for him, and hoping he'd get away with it, so I guess he may not be right, but is he wrong? You judge.
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Summary: FAST-PACED THRILLER TO THE END
Review: this book moves so fast i read it in one sitting. this was the first of green's thrillers i've read. i'm a fan of grisham and patterson and the usual suspects, but put tim green to the top of that list. when it was over i felt like i'd lived this book set in upstate new york. the scenes in the mountains are so detailed and great.
and as a parent of two kids, the premise really hit home with me. how could you not understand jack's rage?
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Summary: Don't waste your money.
Review: This book was boring! I will not be buying anything else this author has to offer. Save your money or buy it in paperback.
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Summary: Move on
Review: This book was one of the worst thrillers I have ever read and I've read too many to mention. The beginning was somewhat compelling but as it went on it became almost laughable. To believe that anything that happened in the last 100 pages could actually occur in real life is so comical, it's not even funny. Each scene became more unbelievable. It was a Page Turner though.
I couldn't wait to turn those last pages so it would end my suffering.
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Summary: When do you cross the line?
Review: This story is about a man intent on getting revenge for his daughter who is kidnapped and tortured by a rapist. Jack Ruskin crosses the line when he goes after serial rapists when the man that abused his daughter is given a short sentence due to a legal technicality despite the horror of his crime. What starts out as a father righting a wrong quickly crosses over to a man who can't stop himself from becoming an avenging angel and killing sex perverts, one at a time.
On his trail is Amanda Lee, an FBI agent who loses her partner while trying to apprehend a sex offender. She hesitates a minute too long before shooting the criminal and that is enough time for him to kill her partner before he dies. His partner in crime escapes during the chaos.
After this fiasco, Amanda is assigned to track down Jack Ruskin, an assignment that she does not want but due to "bureaucracy", has no choice but to accept. Teaming up with a renegade cop who thinks he is Dirty Harry, Amanda starts hunting Jack.
The whole story comes to a climax when the criminal who escaped while Amanda killed his partner decides to go after Amanda's children for revenge. Now Amanda has to decide what is really important, following the law or protecting her children? Will she go after Jack Ruskin who is killing sex offenders when one of these criminal is after her own flesh and blood?
The author makes you ponder on the question, "Is it right to take the law into your own hands and kill when someone you love is hurt or in danger?"
Read this book and draw your own conclusion.
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Summary: strong thriller
Review: Though the proof is overwhelming that repeat sex offender Eugene Tupp raped the fifteen year old teen, the New York Judge rules key evidence was illegally obtained by the police and not admissible. Apparently, the search warrant was for Tupp's house and not his garage. Former prosecutor and highly regarded attorney Jack Ruskin is irate that while his daughter lies semi-comatose this animal will receive a slight slap of the wrist instead of locking him away forever.Jack needs vengeance and he finds it by killing an Upstate sex offender. Tasting blood and not feeling fully satiated, Jack is obsesses with wanting to exterminate the vermin. He uses the net to find his prey, but soon the FBI realizes that a serial killer is murdering sex offenders. Special Agent Amanda Lee begins searching for a culprit, who she sympathizes with as she has a child and her partner was recently killed by a child abuser. Though the premise has been used before (Bronson), THE FIFTH ANGEL starts off as if the reader will receive an action packed yet philosophical look at defining justice. However, once Jack turns into a typical serial killer, the story line intensifies the action at the expense of moving the audience into the gray definitions of justice. Tim Green provides a strong thriller that many fans will say could have been brilliant. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: average thriller, starts well but gradually declines
Review: Tim Green seems to be susceptible to the streak shooting of a perimeter player in basketball, but he's a football guy. Starting with The Letter of the Law (followed by The Fourth Perimeter and now The Fifth Angel), he has written three pretty decent legal/law enforcement thrillers in a row. Each starts off well enough, with a sort of unique or at least interesting premise, but then either meanders along or steadily declines through the end. In The Fifth Angel, Jack Ruskin is a down-and-out guy who manages to balance a successful career by day and a dangerous hobby by night - that hobby is selecting random child sex offenders and eliminating them. The novel loses its steam as it brings Ruskin and a female FBI agent/profiler to a predictable rendezvous in a rather disappointing conclusion.
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