Banking on Torture: A Nina Steel Adventure (Nina Steel Adventures)

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Summary: Banking on Torture Non-stop action with a strong female lead
Review: Is the action adventure series dead? If not, have they just become an endless sequence of the same old thing? If your answer is yes, then there is a treat in store for you. For this book, built around an adventure heroine, that's right heroine. Her name is Nina Steel. Nina, is the product of the human genetic engineering experiments of 2010, and she has a unique distaste for terrorists. Banking on Torture is an intriguing story about the not-so-distant future in which world banks are being victimized by powerful terrorists who are opposed by a handful of super commandos, genetically-engineered men and women led by the beautiful, but deadly Nina Steel. The story moves relentlessly in its search for exciting encounters as the action shifts from the Florida Keys to Chicago and back again, leaving a trail of corpses and battered bodies. From the first unusual torture victim washed up on a deserted beach with a tenacious hold on life the reader is aware that the violence is not merely gratuitous, but has a clear purpose in the plot. Banking on Torture is not all violence and carnage, of course, as there is also spicy romance and good-natured companionship, but the reader is never in doubt from the start that a powerful evil is abroad in the land, giving the plot an edge that is impossible to ignore. The banter and interplay between fighting men and women is rendered compellingly, which given the author's background comes as no real surprise. More indicative of the author's ability is the level of complexity in the book's pages, in which an international terrorist group has established a sophisticated base from which to extract billions in gold from world reserves.

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Summary: Banking on Torture Non-stop action with a strong female lead
Review: Is the action adventure series dead? If not, have they just become an endless sequence of the same old thing? If your answer is yes, then there is a treat in store for you. For this book, built around an adventure heroine, that's right heroine. Her name is Nina Steel. Nina, is the product of the human genetic engineering experiments of 2010, and she has a unique distaste for terrorists. Banking on Torture is an intriguing story about the not-so-distant future in which world banks are being victimized by powerful terrorists who are opposed by a handful of super commandos, genetically-engineered men and women led by the beautiful, but deadly Nina Steel. The story moves relentlessly in its search for exciting encounters as the action shifts from the Florida Keys to Chicago and back again, leaving a trail of corpses and battered bodies. From the first unusual torture victim washed up on a deserted beach with a tenacious hold on life the reader is aware that the violence is not merely gratuitous, but has a clear purpose in the plot. Banking on Torture is not all violence and carnage, of course, as there is also spicy romance and good-natured companionship, but the reader is never in doubt from the start that a powerful evil is abroad in the land, giving the plot an edge that is impossible to ignore. The banter and interplay between fighting men and women is rendered compellingly, which given the author's background comes as no real surprise. More indicative of the author's ability is the level of complexity in the book's pages, in which an international terrorist group has established a sophisticated base from which to extract billions in gold from world reserves.

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Summary: The author knows what action/adventure lovers want!
Review: This is the second book in the Nina Steel Adventure series. I have to first admit that I have read all three books in the series about a year ago, but not in order. I would suggest to anyone that they read the series in order, which is the only problem with the books. If you don't read them in order you can get confused as one book leads into the next. I started reading Banking on Torture around 9pm with the idea I would read a few chapters before going to bed. Eight hours later I finished the book. Wow! The problem was there just wasn't any break in the action. I love it when you can't stop reading. That really says something about the author, he knows what action/adventure lovers want! Banking on Torture takes you to a new level of international banking.

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Summary: Nina Steel is the best action character ever
Review: Unlike the first book in the series, Reunion, which was more like a mystery, Banking on Torture is faster paced, with a lot more non stop action. Genetically engineered Nina Steel leads her team into this adventure that begins with the most unlike of objects-a fishing lure. The lure, with some strange characters scratch into it, brings them face to face with heart stopping action, undreamed of terrors, an old enemy with an attitude and even a little romance, which was great. It also introduces them to four other terrorist bounty hunters. Three of whom, who are working together, hold the key to this whole enigma and the fourth, who is working alone, has her own deadly agenda. These four other spirited terrorist bounty hunters not only take on Nina Steel and her team, but are striving to confront the same bank robbing terrorists Nina is after. From running gun battles in the streets of Chicago to the hauntingly beautiful Caribbean, follow Nina Steel and her genetically engineered counterparts as they weave through a wed of intrigue--desperately racing a clock counting down to certain death while struggling to solve seemingly unanswerable questions. Can these other terrorist bounty hunters be trusted? Or is a final conflict with them inevitable? What, if anything, can be done to save the kidnapped bank officials from a tortured death and the world's banking system from total collapse? Or is it already too late?