The first book in this trilogy was excellent ➙ Even.

Though still entertained by David Trevellyan, something of a British naval intelligence officer James Bond, I found the plot of this one much less skilled.

Die Twice (2010) is 2nd in the David Trevellyan trilogy.

He’s one of the best undercover agents in the world. A seasoned operative for British intelligence.

But when he finds a body in the streets of New York, David Trevellyan is a prime suspect.

Arrested by the NYPD, interrogated by the FBI, Trevellyan swears he had nothing to do with it. But no one believes him―especially when the victim turns out to be a federal agent.

Now his country won’t help him. His contacts can’t save him. But that won’t stop a man like Trevellyan. Whoever set him up is going down.

Even if it kills him…

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Andrew Grant is the brother of bestselling thriller writer Lee Child. When he writes Reacher, his pseudonym is Andrew Child.

Even (2009) was his 1st published novel. And it’s great. Much different than Lee Child.

Our hero is David Trevellyan, something of a British naval intelligence officer James Bond.

He’s one of the best undercover agents in the world.

A seasoned operative for British intelligence.

But when he finds a body in the streets of New York, David Trevellyan is a prime suspect.

Arrested by the NYPD, interrogated by the FBI, Trevellyan swears he had nothing to do with it. But no one believes him―especially when the victim turns out to be a federal agent.

Now his country won’t help him. His contacts can’t save him. But that won’t stop a man like Trevellyan. Whoever set him up is going down. Even if it kills him…

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Quite good.

An easy read. But with some entertaining twists.

House on Fire (2020) is 4th in the series.

Nick Heller, private spy, exposes secrets that powerful people would rather keep hidden.

At the funeral of his good friend Sean, an army buddy who once saved Nick’s life and had struggled with opioid addiction since returning wounded from war, a stranger approaches Nick with a job.

The woman is a member of the Kimball family, whose immense fortune was built on opiates. Now she wants to become a whistleblower, exposing evidence that Kimball Pharmaceutical knew its biggest money-maker drug, Oxydone, was dangerously addictive and led directly to the overdoses and deaths of people like Sean.

Nick agrees instantly, eager to avenge Sean’s death, but he quickly finds himself entangled in the complicated family dynamics of the Kimball dynasty. …

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Dance for the Dead (1996) is the 2nd book in the Jane Whitefield series.

Jane Whitefield is a Native American who has made a career out of helping people disappear.

Perry weaves Native American history, stories, theology, and cultural practices into each novel.

This book is intense.

To protect a young boy in Dance for the Dead, Jane has to hunt down the person responsible for killing multiple people.

Another client that Jane reluctantly accepts had stolen millions of dollars through fraud, but the client’s expertise helps Jane identify the killer.

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One of the reasons that I love Thomas Perry’s Jane Whitfield books is that they are filled with so much arcane information about the darker side of life.

Perry fills you in on how to fabricate a life, steal a car, or set up a bank account using someone else’s Social Security Number.

The 14th book in the Lucas Davenport series is a GOOD one.

12-year-old muskrat trapper Letty West is a wonderful character. The plot is intriguing and entertaining: a stolen car ring, an ex-nun who smuggles cancer drugs over the Canadian border, and the usual internecine wrangling between the FBI, the local cops, and Davenp

… in Naked Prey (2003), he puts Lucas Davenport through some changes.

His old boss, Rose Marie Roux, has moved up to the state level and taken Lucas with her, creating a special troubleshooter job for him for the cases that are too complicated or politically touchy for others to handle.

In addition, Lucas is married now, and a new father, all of which is fine with him: he doesn’t mind being a family man. But he is a little worried. For every bit of peace you get, you have to pay — and he’s waiting for the bill.

It comes in the form of two people found hanging from a tree in the woods of northern Minnesota.

What makes the situation particularly sensitive is that the bodies are of a black man and a white woman, and they’re naked.

“Lynching” is the word that everybody’s trying not to say — but, as Lucas begins to discover, in fact the murders are nothing like what they appear to be, and they are not the end of it. …

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Hot Mahogany (2008) is an unusual book in the Stone Barrington series.

One night at Elaine’s, Stone Barrington – back in Manhattan after chasing down the bad guys in the Caribbean – meets Barton Cabot, older brother of his sometime ally, CIA boss Lance Cabot.

Barton’s career in army intelligence is even more top secret than his brother’s, but he’s suffering from amnesia following a random act of violence.

Amnesia is a dangerous thing in a man whose memory is chockfull of state secrets, so Lance hires Stone to watch Barton’s back.

As Stone discovers, Barton is a spy with a rather unusual hobby: building and restoring antique furniture.

The genteel world of antiques and coin dealers at first seems a far cry from Stone’s usual underworld of mobsters, murderers, and spies. But Barton also is a man with a past, and one event in particular – in the jungles of Vietnam more than thirty years earlier – is coming back to haunt his present in ways he’d never expected.

Stone soon finds out that Barton, and some shady characters of his acquaintance, may be hiding a lot more than just a few forged antiques.

I’m certain author Stuart Woods had great fun writing these formulaic, entertaining, trashy novels. Especially the James-Bond-like sex scenes.