Thriller author Ian Ludlow unwittingly becomes the target of a private security firm making a play for outsourced CIA clandestine services. After he discovers he has survived two attempts on his life by luck and foils a third, he decides to become the secret agent he has only known in his imagination and on the pages of his books to take on the diabolical man that has the resources of a private army at his disposal.
True Fiction, it's larger than life characters, and far-fetched plot is a fast read filled with action and laughs. It's comic book superhero feel reminds me of movies like True Lies, RED, and books like the Nikki Heat Series by Richard Castle. A fun distraction!
Goldberg, Lee. True Fiction, Thomas & Mercer, April 1, 2018. ISBN: 978-1503949188
A copy of True Lies was provided through Kindle First Reads.
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Adam is hired to get close to Polly, whom his employer told his is a thief, liar, and worse. Adam does, but doesn't count on falling in love. Neither does Polly.
Their love, while true, is complicated by the lies and secrets it is based on. Each make sacrifices for each other and for their relationship, but they never make the sacrifice that could save it. They never share the truth.
Sunburn is a stand-alone novel by Laura Lippman, author of the series featuring Baltimore private detective Tess Monaghan.
I particularly enjoyed the complexity that was Polly. Among her secrets and lies, there was hope that there was something good in her. Was she created by circumstance, a victim of abuse who learned to adapt to survive? Or was she born cold, ruthless, diabolical?
Or perhaps I was rooting for Polly because those that surrounded her were worse--sadistic, abusive, greedy, selfish, envious.
Sometimes I find myself liking least people who are neither good or bad, but painfully indifferent to anything but their own needs. Sunburn is a novel that demonstrates that sometimes those are people that finish last. And that sometimes love can conquer all, but perhaps not the love readers will expect.
Lippman, Laura. Sunburn, William Morrow, February 20, 2018. ISBN: 978-0-06-238992-3
True Fiction, it's larger than life characters, and far-fetched plot is a fast read filled with action and laughs. It's comic book superhero feel reminds me of movies like True Lies, RED, and books like the Nikki Heat Series by Richard Castle. A fun distraction!
