A Billion Ways To Die
(Thriller)
By Chris Knopf
ISBN #978-579623630
272 Pages
Price $29.00
Rating 5-Stars
In this third, and possibly final novel, featuring
Arthur Cathcart and his Japanese girlfriend, Natsumi Fitzsgerald, they are
vacationing on his sailboat, Detour,
when a team of mercenaries kidnaps them and they are tortured for information
about a missing billion dollars, which he supposedly has. Unable to find out
what they want to know, the kidnappers order the mercs to kill them. Instead,
the mercenaries release them.
Now Cathcart wants to know what it’s all about, and
soon learns it still involves someone from his past, who is supposed to be in
prison. It appears to involve government loans to people in third-world
countries, and someone is funneling the money to their own accounts. Somehow,
Cathcart is suspected of intercepting the funds and funneling them elsewhere.
The FBI and the bad guys are after him and everyone wants the money back – and
him dead.
This is an interesting series, and although I never
read the first story we’re told that Cathcart’s wife had been into something possibly
criminal, and big. Killers shot them both in the head, leaving them for dead..
His wife died, but Cathcart’s sister, a doctor, was able to save him in secret and
nurse him back to health. He remains dead to everyone but a retired FBI agent,
his sister, and Natsumi. Using his computer skills, he brought his murderers to
justice, but he must remain dead, and on the run. The two books I have read are fascinating
entries, and the characters are involved in billion dollar intrigue and danger.
The pace is fast, and writing smooth, keeping the reader turning the pages.
Highly recommended.
Tom Johnson
Detective Mystery Stories
