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Vigilante #5-6
Duo #3: 6 Hours 42 Minutes/ Discreet Activities
6 Hours 42 Though most of them dabbled in a variety of criminal activities, they weren't experienced in this particular field and had never been involved in a job like this before...
However, with proper planning, careful organization and the inside information available to them, they were certain that this bank heist would be a piece of cake...
...Ten minutes, in and out, was all it would take and they'd be sharing 2.5 million dollars...
Nothing could go wrong as they had thought of everything...
How could they possibly know that a new member of the board was visiting the bank that morning?
...How could they know that the new board member was Chris Barry?
Discreet As a result of information gathered via electronic surveillance by intelligence agencies in the U.S. and Canada, a budding terrorist organization, the Army for Islam or AFI, is suspected of planning an attack, its target possibly NYC, Burlington, Vermont or even Canada's famed Montreal.
When four foreign students from Pakistan with known ties to the AFI's Montreal cell arrive in the area on New Year's Eve, Discreet Activities' head, Jonathan Addley, along with Chris Barry and other DA consultants are more than willing to take on the additional workload.
After two of the DA team members die violently in an AFI related suicide-bombing, the job becomes getting revenge on those responsible for this Holy War...
However, with proper planning, careful organization and the inside information available to them, they were certain that this bank heist would be a piece of cake...
...Ten minutes, in and out, was all it would take and they'd be sharing 2.5 million dollars...
Nothing could go wrong as they had thought of everything...
How could they possibly know that a new member of the board was visiting the bank that morning?
...How could they know that the new board member was Chris Barry?
Discreet As a result of information gathered via electronic surveillance by intelligence agencies in the U.S. and Canada, a budding terrorist organization, the Army for Islam or AFI, is suspected of planning an attack, its target possibly NYC, Burlington, Vermont or even Canada's famed Montreal.
When four foreign students from Pakistan with known ties to the AFI's Montreal cell arrive in the area on New Year's Eve, Discreet Activities' head, Jonathan Addley, along with Chris Barry and other DA consultants are more than willing to take on the additional workload.
After two of the DA team members die violently in an AFI related suicide-bombing, the job becomes getting revenge on those responsible for this Holy War...
419 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 18, 2013
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About the author
Claude Bouchard
91 books2,111 followers*USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR*
I was born in Montreal, Canada, at a very young age, where I still live with my spouse, Joanne, under the watchful eye of Krystalle and Midnight, two black females of the feline persuasion. In a former life, I completed my studies at McGill University and worked in various management capacities for a handful of firms for countless years. From there, considering my extensive background in human resources and finance, it was a logical leap in my career path to stay home and write crime thrillers.
My first stab at writing was actually in 1995, the result being my first novel, "Vigilante". Two others of the same series followed by 1997 but all three remained dormant until publication in 2009. Since, besides writing a stand-alone, five other thrillers have joined the VIGILANTE series. I also penned "Something's Cooking", a faux-erotica parody and cookbook under the pseudonyms Réal E. Hotte and Dasha Sugah. I'm currently working on "See You in Saigon" and "The First Sixteen", two further installments of my series. I have to say, I'm enjoying this writing gig.
Other interests besides writing and subtly persuading people to buy my books include reading, making noise with my six guitars, painting (oil and watercolour), cooking (year round though I love the grill in the summer), traveling and planning to work out soon. I've also been known to sleep on occasion.
You can visit my website at claudebouchardbooks.com which is almost as fun as DisneyLand and absolutely free.
I was born in Montreal, Canada, at a very young age, where I still live with my spouse, Joanne, under the watchful eye of Krystalle and Midnight, two black females of the feline persuasion. In a former life, I completed my studies at McGill University and worked in various management capacities for a handful of firms for countless years. From there, considering my extensive background in human resources and finance, it was a logical leap in my career path to stay home and write crime thrillers.
My first stab at writing was actually in 1995, the result being my first novel, "Vigilante". Two others of the same series followed by 1997 but all three remained dormant until publication in 2009. Since, besides writing a stand-alone, five other thrillers have joined the VIGILANTE series. I also penned "Something's Cooking", a faux-erotica parody and cookbook under the pseudonyms Réal E. Hotte and Dasha Sugah. I'm currently working on "See You in Saigon" and "The First Sixteen", two further installments of my series. I have to say, I'm enjoying this writing gig.
Other interests besides writing and subtly persuading people to buy my books include reading, making noise with my six guitars, painting (oil and watercolour), cooking (year round though I love the grill in the summer), traveling and planning to work out soon. I've also been known to sleep on occasion.
You can visit my website at claudebouchardbooks.com which is almost as fun as DisneyLand and absolutely free.
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April 30, 2014
Mr Bouchard, great storylines still but you really need to sort the sloppy proofreading out. I mentioned this had happened in the last one I read in the series and I hoped it was a one-off but both these books had the same issues again.
Words were missing in sentences like was/a/the/is/it......confusing and irritating.
Fullstops were missing, of was used in place of or, to instead of too, strived instead of thrived... there were also dropped speechmarks, of used when it should be at, with when will was meant, a few tenses' mistakes as well. Then we had here used when hear was the right spelling.I know the author is French but someone really needs to proofread his work before putting it out for sale. I was tempted to pack in this series, I must say. Annoying as I'm always recommending it to everybody !!
I preferred the 6 Hours 42 Minutes story of the pair and I gave that 4 stars but 3 stars to the Discreet Activities so it's 3.5 for the duo in this instance. I liked the new girl Leslie a great deal and hoped to see her again so I was pleased she was in both. I was worried we didn't see much of Dave in the first story so good to see he was featured more in Discreet Activities.
But please sort out the editing !!
Words were missing in sentences like was/a/the/is/it......confusing and irritating.
Fullstops were missing, of was used in place of or, to instead of too, strived instead of thrived... there were also dropped speechmarks, of used when it should be at, with when will was meant, a few tenses' mistakes as well. Then we had here used when hear was the right spelling.I know the author is French but someone really needs to proofread his work before putting it out for sale. I was tempted to pack in this series, I must say. Annoying as I'm always recommending it to everybody !!
I preferred the 6 Hours 42 Minutes story of the pair and I gave that 4 stars but 3 stars to the Discreet Activities so it's 3.5 for the duo in this instance. I liked the new girl Leslie a great deal and hoped to see her again so I was pleased she was in both. I was worried we didn't see much of Dave in the first story so good to see he was featured more in Discreet Activities.
But please sort out the editing !!
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