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Ty Hauck #3
Reckless
Ty Hauck is shattered by the news. A close friend from his past, along with her husband and daughter, has been brutally murdered in her home by vicious intruders. Now he will risk everything he loves to avenge her death. . . .
A wealthy banker, seeing his world about to crumble around him, knows his family is in unfathomable danger. . . .
A U.S. government agent watches the sudden bank transfers of millions in cash and suspects that this is the first step in a plot to unleash a wave of global panic. . . .
Ty Hauck hunts the murderer of a friend—and steps into the crosshairs of a sinister conspiracy—in this most electrifying novel yet from New York Times bestselling thriller master Andrew Gross
Private security investigator Ty Hauck, with Naomi Blum, a tenacious agent from the U.S. Department of Treasury, unravels the evidence that joins these seemingly unrelated events—revealing a reckless scheme that stretches from New York to London to central Europe and gives new meaning to the phrase "too big to fail." What began with a tragedy that opened a door to Hauck's past—a door that he thought was long closed—ends with a frantic race to avert a disaster that could shake the very security of our country—and even the world.
401 pages, Hardcover
First published April 27, 2010
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Andrew Gross
94 books1,779 followersHoward Andrew Gross was an American author of thriller novels, including four New York Times bestsellers. He is best known for his collaborations with suspense writer James Patterson. Gross's books feature close family bonds, relationships characterized by loss or betrayal, and a large degree of emotional resonance which generally leads to wider crimes and cover-ups. The books have all been published by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins.
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June 3, 2024
An OK read, it didn't blow me away, but it kept me turning the pages.
I can imagine forgetting quickly was this was even about, but the reading experience was fine.
Three stars.
I can imagine forgetting quickly was this was even about, but the reading experience was fine.
Three stars.
May 5, 2010
I won this book through GoodReads. (You're required to disclose if you got a book free in your online reviews now. It's some government regulation.)
Reckless by Andrew Gross starts off like one of those old episodes of Columbo where you see the crime and know whodunit but then get to watch Detective Columbo solve it. However, in this case, each piece of the puzzle reveals a much bigger picture and a much wider conspiracy than originally imagined. In any other mystery/thriller, the author's tendency to keep the reader one step ahead of the investigators would be really annoying. Here though, Gross is constantly mis-directing both the protagonists and us. The pacing of this novel is excellent and the short chapters worked well to keep me turning the pages. I'd recommend Reckless for any conspiracy theorists out there. You'll love the twist ending.
Reckless by Andrew Gross starts off like one of those old episodes of Columbo where you see the crime and know whodunit but then get to watch Detective Columbo solve it. However, in this case, each piece of the puzzle reveals a much bigger picture and a much wider conspiracy than originally imagined. In any other mystery/thriller, the author's tendency to keep the reader one step ahead of the investigators would be really annoying. Here though, Gross is constantly mis-directing both the protagonists and us. The pacing of this novel is excellent and the short chapters worked well to keep me turning the pages. I'd recommend Reckless for any conspiracy theorists out there. You'll love the twist ending.
May 1, 2012
I have had it with the Ty Hauck series. If Gross writes another one, I am not reading it. This one is the least plausible one of all and I really detest Ty's relationships with women which are disrespectful at the very best.
In the first book, Ty tells Karen he is in love with her and never felt this way before. At the beginning of the second book, Karen has gone to Atlanta to help her elderly mother care for her elderly day who is losing his battle with Parkinson's and whiny Ty thinks she is away just to break up with him which she was not. She even invites him to come to Atlanta to spend Thanksgiving with her, her parents, her teenaged kids, and the dog but he tells her a lie that he will be spending the holiday with his daughter. He then proceeds to go to a casino during an investigation and spend the night having sex with a barely legal girl young enough to be his daughter then takes up with Annie, a restaurant owner with a Down syndrome son.
In this third book in the series, he seems to see Annie as just someone to get sex off of. He is obsessed with a married woman he met in a grief class who was murdered, a woman he had an affair with that resulted in the birth of her son (the poor husband knew nothing of it). It turns out that the woman and her husband and daughter were murdered in a way to make it look like a robbery and the son- her illicit kid with Ty- witnessed it and got photos on his sister's cell phone but it was no robbery and was associated with a check on a man he had to do at Talon for a rich woman suspicious of her boyfriend.
This book really out to be in a category of "ludicrous sci-fi" as it has the head of the United States Treasury and his counsel purposely destroying our economy in the recent economic meltdown along with some Saudis as a sort of jihad/greed plot with all sorts of weird sideplots. Oh and of course it had Annie jealous of a dead woman while Ty proclaims his undying love- until he asks to see the tatoo on the FBI agent's ass in a stalled elevator.
In the first book, Ty tells Karen he is in love with her and never felt this way before. At the beginning of the second book, Karen has gone to Atlanta to help her elderly mother care for her elderly day who is losing his battle with Parkinson's and whiny Ty thinks she is away just to break up with him which she was not. She even invites him to come to Atlanta to spend Thanksgiving with her, her parents, her teenaged kids, and the dog but he tells her a lie that he will be spending the holiday with his daughter. He then proceeds to go to a casino during an investigation and spend the night having sex with a barely legal girl young enough to be his daughter then takes up with Annie, a restaurant owner with a Down syndrome son.
In this third book in the series, he seems to see Annie as just someone to get sex off of. He is obsessed with a married woman he met in a grief class who was murdered, a woman he had an affair with that resulted in the birth of her son (the poor husband knew nothing of it). It turns out that the woman and her husband and daughter were murdered in a way to make it look like a robbery and the son- her illicit kid with Ty- witnessed it and got photos on his sister's cell phone but it was no robbery and was associated with a check on a man he had to do at Talon for a rich woman suspicious of her boyfriend.
This book really out to be in a category of "ludicrous sci-fi" as it has the head of the United States Treasury and his counsel purposely destroying our economy in the recent economic meltdown along with some Saudis as a sort of jihad/greed plot with all sorts of weird sideplots. Oh and of course it had Annie jealous of a dead woman while Ty proclaims his undying love- until he asks to see the tatoo on the FBI agent's ass in a stalled elevator.
August 20, 2018
This is my third book with this character Ty Hauck and I really like him. Not too rough & gruff, but just enough moxie to keep you interested and you know he can keep himself out of trouble. Most interesting plot with lots of espionage to keep it exciting and even a little nail biting at times. First time I listened to a book from start to finish. I like this listening to books....get lots of knitting done!!!
July 23, 2017
A classic 3.5
I usually don't read this gender but something attracted me to it.
Plot development and character development was promising, however it became predictable to a large degree.
It will be a while until I tackle a thriller of this sort, written in the tradition of Lee Child .
I usually don't read this gender but something attracted me to it.
Plot development and character development was promising, however it became predictable to a large degree.
It will be a while until I tackle a thriller of this sort, written in the tradition of Lee Child .
February 4, 2019
I had no expectation at all from the beginning, but i thoroughly enjoyed this book!
May 23, 2010
Andrew Gross has had a seven-year partnership with James Patterson and it shows. I'm mixed about James Patterson who I thought wrote some great books early in his career - the first Alex Cross books were truly outstanding thrillers - and then became, quite frankly, a hack spewing out indifferent thrillers back-to-back. Andrew Gross has benefited in a sense from both sides of this equation - he's definitely learned the elements of a successful thriller and he's definitely learned to spew out the formula. You can probably guess that I'm not impressed with the latter half of the equation.
I read a lot of thrillers and many of them are very good. Sure, they follow a formula, but the best ones go beyond that to deliver both plot and characters that make you want to keep turning the pages. Unfortunately for me this just didn't deliver anything beyond the average. The plot premise was definitely interesting: What if the recent economic crisis was actually evidence of a complex terrorist action targeting the financial sector? It's an idea with a lot of promise - a sort of Law and Order ripped from the headlines kind of thing (and I do love Law and Order).
Where the problems come is in the characters who are pretty lackluster and typical. Yes, yes, the intrepid hero is intrepid and, well, heroic. Yes, yes, the government agent is female, skinny, and model-beautiful - can you see the TV mini-series being cast? If the book was skewed more towards the female agent, it'd be on Lifetime, but since it's skewed towards the intrepid hero think FX.
Don't get me wrong, this was fairly entertaining, but not entertaining enough to keep me up reading and that's the minimum requirement for me to think it was a great thriller.
I read a lot of thrillers and many of them are very good. Sure, they follow a formula, but the best ones go beyond that to deliver both plot and characters that make you want to keep turning the pages. Unfortunately for me this just didn't deliver anything beyond the average. The plot premise was definitely interesting: What if the recent economic crisis was actually evidence of a complex terrorist action targeting the financial sector? It's an idea with a lot of promise - a sort of Law and Order ripped from the headlines kind of thing (and I do love Law and Order).
Where the problems come is in the characters who are pretty lackluster and typical. Yes, yes, the intrepid hero is intrepid and, well, heroic. Yes, yes, the government agent is female, skinny, and model-beautiful - can you see the TV mini-series being cast? If the book was skewed more towards the female agent, it'd be on Lifetime, but since it's skewed towards the intrepid hero think FX.
Don't get me wrong, this was fairly entertaining, but not entertaining enough to keep me up reading and that's the minimum requirement for me to think it was a great thriller.
August 6, 2010
3 1/2 stars. Murder. Suicide. The collapse of the economy. Terrorists and jihad. Espionage. A little romance thrown in for good measure. How does it all tie together? Very neatly, by the end of the book.
This is the third in the “Ty Hauck” series, but the first that I had read. It worked well as a stand-alone. There were a few references to what happened in the earlier books, but nothing that lessened my understanding of this one. Initially, I wasn't crazy about the writing. One sentence had me scratching my head. “Names of the unaccounted for he was charged with following up on.” Say what?
This thriller/mystery is a quick and entertaining read when your brain is weary and you want an escape.
I read a library copy of this book as part of the Stephen White – Alan Gregory Goodreads group read.
This is the third in the “Ty Hauck” series, but the first that I had read. It worked well as a stand-alone. There were a few references to what happened in the earlier books, but nothing that lessened my understanding of this one. Initially, I wasn't crazy about the writing. One sentence had me scratching my head. “Names of the unaccounted for he was charged with following up on.” Say what?
This thriller/mystery is a quick and entertaining read when your brain is weary and you want an escape.
I read a library copy of this book as part of the Stephen White – Alan Gregory Goodreads group read.
April 3, 2020
Reading from my bookshelves now -- this one first published in 2010.
Ty Hauck partners at a private security company after leaving over 20 years on the police force. He hears on the news about a home invasion where most of the family is killed and realizes he knows the mother. As a secondary story line, Hauck investigates a supposedly wealthy man's background.
I first learned of Andrew Gross in his co-authoring with James Patterson and I liked his writing style. I read the first book in this Ty Hauck series. I like Hauck's character. He can take care of himself, keeps going when things get tough, and makes good moral decisions. Wall street, stock trading, and other financial dealings get lots of mentions in this book. There's rough and tumble action, especially in the latter part. I would read the next book if I can find it.
Ty Hauck partners at a private security company after leaving over 20 years on the police force. He hears on the news about a home invasion where most of the family is killed and realizes he knows the mother. As a secondary story line, Hauck investigates a supposedly wealthy man's background.
I first learned of Andrew Gross in his co-authoring with James Patterson and I liked his writing style. I read the first book in this Ty Hauck series. I like Hauck's character. He can take care of himself, keeps going when things get tough, and makes good moral decisions. Wall street, stock trading, and other financial dealings get lots of mentions in this book. There's rough and tumble action, especially in the latter part. I would read the next book if I can find it.
February 3, 2011
Reckless is a highly charged thriller set in the fincial chao,s of the current recession.Andrew Gross packs a riveting style. The only book that didn,t bore me with the words hedge fund and subprime mortage. The author created two top notch characters the investigator Ty Hauck and Naomi Blum they have some serious chemistry going on. Yhe reader gets a roller coaster ride through a plot of finicial misdoings , high intrigue and murder.look for ward to reading more books by this author.
December 8, 2019
Günay Gafur'un Kâhin'inden sonra hiçbir maceranın beni yeterince tatmin etmeyeceğini bildiğim için, gerçekten merak ettiğim kitapları geri plana çekip vasat olduğunu tahmin ettiklerimi öne sürdüm. Kıskaç bu geçiş döneminde benim kasislerimden biriydi ve oldukça mantıklı bir karar verdiğimi kanıtlamış oldu. Klasik cinayet soruşturmasından ziyade bir ekonomik komployu soruşturması hikayenin türdeşleriyle aynı matematik çerçevede şekillendiğini gizleyememiş maalesef. Kötü diyemem ama biraz vasat buldum. Ty Hauck serisinin üçüncü kitabıymış, bence bağımsız da okunabiliyor. =)
February 27, 2016
I won this book through Goodreads First Reads Giveaway. Thank you so much. =)
- My Description -
When ex-detective Ty Hauck finds out an old friend and her family is murdered in their suburban home, he's in shock. When he investigates only a little bit, he finds more murders happening. Somehow, all the murders are connected. But why and how?
- My Review -
This book was a good murder mystery.
There was a little bit of Wall Street jargon tossed around throughout, but not enough not to keep up and interested.
The ending was a tiny bit of a surprise but one most people would guess happens, or does it?
One of those draw-your-own-conclusions type endings.
October 14, 2013
I enjoyed this book. A quick and easy read.
February 7, 2016
Great book. Murder, government conspiracy, cross and double cross, who could ask for more? Probably a 4.5 rating if it was allowed.
September 11, 2017
Protagonist Ty Hauck returns for the third time in author Andrew Gross', "Reckless". Trying to get into this Ty Hauck series from Gross has not been easy. So far all four Andrew Gross books I've read thrive on flash without much meat on the bone. Hauck as the main character is very one sided and too much like cardboard for depth. In, "Reckless", Hauck has left the Greenwich P.D. and taken a job with a private security company, "The Talon Group". Talon features a lot of services that are all very hush hush. Ty's boss Tom Foley is the kind of a guy you'd check to see if you still had a hand after shaking his hand. Ty's first assignment with Talon is a background check on a playboy named Dieter "Dani" Thibault for the rich and powerful Mrs. Merrill Simons. Merrill's husband Peter runs the high powered and huge bank, "Reynolds Reid". Peter prefers that wife Merrill stays busy and out of his hair. Hauck gets to run down the background to Merrill's new plaything. Meanwhile Marc and April Glassman are murdered in their home one night. Glassman works for the prestigious bank "Wertheimer Grant". Hauck was once very friendly with April Glassman while in group therapy years back after his young child was killed. Of course Hauck keeps sticking his nose into the Glassman case while not getting far on Thibault's background. When mortgage banker/ broker James Donovan kills himself after it's discovered he's lost billions of dollars in bad deals Hauck's radar goes up. Both Donovan and Glassman were into something dirty that had a connection somewhere. Not wanting to fill in his boss about Dani Thibault, Hauck soon teams up with U.S. Treasury Financial Crimes/ Terrorism task force investigator Naomi Blum. Blum is hot on the trail of the same people Hauck is trying to investigate. With all three cases continually running into each other Hauck and Blum are soon looking into international terrorists. My paperback version of, "Reckless" pushed over 460 pages. A number of times the plot would just come to a halt. Filled with a collection of uninspiring characters this one was dry to say the least. Hauck is such an unfulfilled character he doesn't have the ability to carry the plot. Likely a partner would help.Hauck is like a TV detective who wanders through episodes and manages to catch the bad guy. Luckily I only have one more Ty Hauck book from author Andrew Gross to go. "Reckless", gets three stars out of a possible five stars. I'm really grading on a huge curve. This one is really a 2.50-2.75 star book at best. If you haven't started this Ty Hauck series already- leave him on the shelf.
March 17, 2019
It was a good read
August 16, 2017
A fun read - somewhat like a Dan Brown novel. A bit too "preachy" for my tastes and definitely In need of a good edit yet exciting and entertaining by and large.
December 30, 2011
Book 3, in the Ty Hauck series
As the first chapters unfold, we are slowly introduced to the characters that will take part in this mystery. A major change has Ty Hauck, Mr. Gross’s protagonist, moving on from his former job as police detective to an important post at a corporate security firm.
The story begins when a close friend from Ty’s past, April Glassman, is found brutally murdered in her home along with her husband and daughter. The firm in a gesture to one of their favourite clients takes on the case and assigns who else but Ty as lead investigator, it is obvious he has a definite interest in finding the reason and those responsible for this tragic incident. Early on into the investigation Ty finds himself in the middle of an ongoing financial conspiracy that has sights set on other targets.
His leads cross those of U.S treasury Agent Naomi Blum and together they follow the money trail, a trail that has them jetting across continents facing danger at every turn, a labyrinth of continuously new information and hazards that all has to be analysed and addressed. What they find at first appears to be a possible terrorist strike against financial managers but later turns out to be something far more sinister involving a much larger scope of the financial community.
In this latest novel, Mr. Gross has spun his own mystery around 21st century events and seasoned it with plenty of frightening conspiracies and global intrigue, a recipe that will please many readers. Although the plotting is somewhat predictable and quite formulaic, the topic is nevertheless quite interesting and the short and punchy chapters make it an easy read. The characterization is based on two main characters; the intrepid hero and the beautiful female agent as for the rest of the cast they are simply fill-ins. The simplified chemistry is definitely not a mind bender, it left me wishing for more, however all that said and done, this fast paced-thriller was an enjoyable read.
As the first chapters unfold, we are slowly introduced to the characters that will take part in this mystery. A major change has Ty Hauck, Mr. Gross’s protagonist, moving on from his former job as police detective to an important post at a corporate security firm.
The story begins when a close friend from Ty’s past, April Glassman, is found brutally murdered in her home along with her husband and daughter. The firm in a gesture to one of their favourite clients takes on the case and assigns who else but Ty as lead investigator, it is obvious he has a definite interest in finding the reason and those responsible for this tragic incident. Early on into the investigation Ty finds himself in the middle of an ongoing financial conspiracy that has sights set on other targets.
His leads cross those of U.S treasury Agent Naomi Blum and together they follow the money trail, a trail that has them jetting across continents facing danger at every turn, a labyrinth of continuously new information and hazards that all has to be analysed and addressed. What they find at first appears to be a possible terrorist strike against financial managers but later turns out to be something far more sinister involving a much larger scope of the financial community.
In this latest novel, Mr. Gross has spun his own mystery around 21st century events and seasoned it with plenty of frightening conspiracies and global intrigue, a recipe that will please many readers. Although the plotting is somewhat predictable and quite formulaic, the topic is nevertheless quite interesting and the short and punchy chapters make it an easy read. The characterization is based on two main characters; the intrepid hero and the beautiful female agent as for the rest of the cast they are simply fill-ins. The simplified chemistry is definitely not a mind bender, it left me wishing for more, however all that said and done, this fast paced-thriller was an enjoyable read.
September 2, 2016
I first heard of Andrew Gross when he began co-writing with James Patterson, so I assumed he was a good writer. Reckless had good characters and a good plot, but the writing style was terribly rough and unpolished. In the first chapter the author repeatedly called the bindings holding a person immobile "binds." There were quite a few instances of using transitive verbs incorrectly without objects, for example: "...he said, disentangling from Annie's legs." Mostly there was just a lot of awkward or vague phrasing and words used incorrectly. "Things were getting deeper" - meaning that the situation was becoming more complicated. "...supposed to be falling in love with..." - meaning that others supposed that she was falling in love with. "...(one person) sat around the dinner table." He also frequently used simple past tense verbs when past-perfect tenses would have been correct and would have given the reader a clearer picture of when the actions took place. There were also several instances of pronouns without clear antecedents, so that the reader was left wonder who was being referred to. Some passages simply didn't make sense: "..streets of charming tree-lined homes..." "his face still resonated in her." "His blood came to a stop." "Those with the part of them inside that does not look away." "His heart raced tremulously." "...the arc of where your career is." I also noticed several instances when the subjunctive mood would have been appropriate, and the writer chose not to use it." This book desperately needed an editor.
June 13, 2014
Ty Hauck gave up his right to investigate local crimes when he retired from the police force and joined a private security firm. But when he hears about the family that is murdered, and realizes that the wife is a former friend, he can't help but shadow the investigation. The husband was a big-shot on Wall Street, a trader who bought and sold stocks with values in the billions. After his death, the discovery is made that he has been dealing outside the rules and his exposure brings down the firm. Then another trader at another firm also is killed and his firm faces extinction.
About the same time, Hauck is asked to look into the background of the new boyfriend of a local wealthy woman. The more he looks into the man's background, the shadier he seems and it seems that he is connected somehow to the murders that have been occurring. Hauck teams up with Treasury Agent Naomi Blum to figure out what is going on and how the murders are involved. Before they know it, they uncover a vast conspiracy that could wreck the financial markets of the world. Can they find those responsible before everything crashes down?
Andrew Gross has written a fast-paced thriller that ties into the financial instability that occurred in 2008, and had investors and everyone else fearful. This is the third Ty Hauck mystery and Ty's background is filled in for the reader. Even those who don't follow the markets will be compelled to follow the story and see what happens. This book is recommended for mystery lovers.
About the same time, Hauck is asked to look into the background of the new boyfriend of a local wealthy woman. The more he looks into the man's background, the shadier he seems and it seems that he is connected somehow to the murders that have been occurring. Hauck teams up with Treasury Agent Naomi Blum to figure out what is going on and how the murders are involved. Before they know it, they uncover a vast conspiracy that could wreck the financial markets of the world. Can they find those responsible before everything crashes down?
Andrew Gross has written a fast-paced thriller that ties into the financial instability that occurred in 2008, and had investors and everyone else fearful. This is the third Ty Hauck mystery and Ty's background is filled in for the reader. Even those who don't follow the markets will be compelled to follow the story and see what happens. This book is recommended for mystery lovers.
May 30, 2010
Another excellent thriller/mystery novel by Andrew Gross. Ty Hauck has a job at Talon Security, when he hears that a friend from his past has been murdered in a breakin along with her husband, a well respected trader on Wall Street. However, it comes out shortly thereafter that the trader had engaged in financial fraud. Ty goes to the house and immediately suspects that the breakin is not what it seems. When a suicide occurs of another influential trader, who also apparently made illicit trades. Hauck like the synonym of his name Hawk, believes there must be a connection.
Later after asked by his employer to investigate the boyfriend of a wealthy divorcee, he uncovers certain connections between the three men. After an attack on someone close to him, he meets a Treasury Special Agent Naomi Blum, who is also investigating certain irregularities in the financial market.
The two join forces and seek answers in America and Serbia, London and Switzerland. Never sure of who is involved until the last page.
A real page turner with enough action, mystery and suspense for any thriller junkie this latest from Gross is top notch.
Later after asked by his employer to investigate the boyfriend of a wealthy divorcee, he uncovers certain connections between the three men. After an attack on someone close to him, he meets a Treasury Special Agent Naomi Blum, who is also investigating certain irregularities in the financial market.
The two join forces and seek answers in America and Serbia, London and Switzerland. Never sure of who is involved until the last page.
A real page turner with enough action, mystery and suspense for any thriller junkie this latest from Gross is top notch.
April 24, 2010
If you only recognize Andrew Gross’s name from his seven-year writing partnership with James Patterson, it’s time to take a fresh look at this author. “Reckless”, his newest novel, is simply exceptional. Emotionally captivating from the first page, Gross intricately builds layers of tension, dread and suspense as he delves into the worst-case scenario of the world’s financial collapse.
Ty Hauck believes he’s happy. At least as happy as he feels he has the right to be, until the morning where his thinly built glass house shatters around him at the incomprehensible death of an old friend. Unable to abandon his memories and past promises, he is compelled to uncover the truth behind the startling murder of this family. Linked by virtually invisible threads, Hauck unknowingly jumps into the depths of a worldwide conspiracy leaving readers breathless.
Hitting uncomfortably close to home, Gross rides the waves of anxiety building up to an astonishing and unpredictable conclusion. An unquestionable success, Gross is a novelist to keep an eye on.
Ty Hauck believes he’s happy. At least as happy as he feels he has the right to be, until the morning where his thinly built glass house shatters around him at the incomprehensible death of an old friend. Unable to abandon his memories and past promises, he is compelled to uncover the truth behind the startling murder of this family. Linked by virtually invisible threads, Hauck unknowingly jumps into the depths of a worldwide conspiracy leaving readers breathless.
Hitting uncomfortably close to home, Gross rides the waves of anxiety building up to an astonishing and unpredictable conclusion. An unquestionable success, Gross is a novelist to keep an eye on.
January 19, 2017
Ty Hauck is shattered by the news that a friend from his past along with her husband
and daughter are brutally murdered by home invaders. A wealthy banker seeing his world
crumble around him knows that his family is in great danger. A U.S. government agent
watches the sudden bank transfer of millions in cash and suspects that this is step one in a
plot to unleash a wave of global panic. Ty Hauck hunts the murderer of his friend and steps into
the cross hairs of a sinister conspiracy. Ty with Naomi Blum an agent from the Treasury
Department unravels the evidence that joins the seemingly unrelated events revealing a
reckless scheme that stretches from N.Y. to London and Central Europe.What began with a
tragedy that opened a door to Hauck's past, a door that he thought was long closed ends with
a race to reveal a disaster that could change the security of our country and the world. This book
is from 2010 and is number 3 in the Ty Hauck series. Andrew Gross is a fine writer and I'm going
to give this a 5 along with most of his others.
and daughter are brutally murdered by home invaders. A wealthy banker seeing his world
crumble around him knows that his family is in great danger. A U.S. government agent
watches the sudden bank transfer of millions in cash and suspects that this is step one in a
plot to unleash a wave of global panic. Ty Hauck hunts the murderer of his friend and steps into
the cross hairs of a sinister conspiracy. Ty with Naomi Blum an agent from the Treasury
Department unravels the evidence that joins the seemingly unrelated events revealing a
reckless scheme that stretches from N.Y. to London and Central Europe.What began with a
tragedy that opened a door to Hauck's past, a door that he thought was long closed ends with
a race to reveal a disaster that could change the security of our country and the world. This book
is from 2010 and is number 3 in the Ty Hauck series. Andrew Gross is a fine writer and I'm going
to give this a 5 along with most of his others.
March 30, 2019
I read this because it was the only book within reach when I had a sleeping baby on me.
I enjoy thrillers but this was dry and the characters were incredibly flat. At around page 200 I lost interest in the main plot. Not sure why I continued. I thought it would get better. It didn't.
The "hero" of this book, Ty, is obnoxious. He assesses how pretty every woman he I interacts with is and apparently cycles through relationships at a rapid rate for no apparent reason. The last scene made me roll my eyes so hard it is a wonder they didn't detach. Speaking of eyes, why on earth does Ty wink so much? He winks constantly.
The writing was just not very good. In one "dramatic" scene he describes a character reacting to bad news with four separate descriptions of him going pale/his face draining of color/ etc. Find a different way to describe shock, dude. He already lost the color in his face when it happened the first time. And I've lost my patience with Andrew Gross.
I'm glad the baby had a good nap and I'll be avoiding this author in the future.
I enjoy thrillers but this was dry and the characters were incredibly flat. At around page 200 I lost interest in the main plot. Not sure why I continued. I thought it would get better. It didn't.
The "hero" of this book, Ty, is obnoxious. He assesses how pretty every woman he I interacts with is and apparently cycles through relationships at a rapid rate for no apparent reason. The last scene made me roll my eyes so hard it is a wonder they didn't detach. Speaking of eyes, why on earth does Ty wink so much? He winks constantly.
The writing was just not very good. In one "dramatic" scene he describes a character reacting to bad news with four separate descriptions of him going pale/his face draining of color/ etc. Find a different way to describe shock, dude. He already lost the color in his face when it happened the first time. And I've lost my patience with Andrew Gross.
I'm glad the baby had a good nap and I'll be avoiding this author in the future.
May 6, 2010
A first-reads win.
Reckless is a highly charged thriller set in the financial chaos of the current recession. Andrew Gross packs a riveting style that not only kept me at the edge of my seat but is possibly the only book that didn't send me in a serial yawn from words like "hedge Fund" and "subprime mortgage". The author has created two top-notched characters in investigator Ty Hauck and Naomi Blum and the two have some serious chemistry going on between these pages. Hopefully Mr. Gross will place these two together again but for now the reader get a roller-coaster ride through a plot of financial misdoings, high intrigue and murder.
Reckless is a highly charged thriller set in the financial chaos of the current recession. Andrew Gross packs a riveting style that not only kept me at the edge of my seat but is possibly the only book that didn't send me in a serial yawn from words like "hedge Fund" and "subprime mortgage". The author has created two top-notched characters in investigator Ty Hauck and Naomi Blum and the two have some serious chemistry going on between these pages. Hopefully Mr. Gross will place these two together again but for now the reader get a roller-coaster ride through a plot of financial misdoings, high intrigue and murder.
July 15, 2012
Terrible terrible stuff. The references to minor US tv characters annoyed me as did the brand names on every page. The unbelieveable plot is ridiculous and by the end I couldn't care less whether our "hero" gets of with his co-goon chaser or not.
We're told there is a financial sector crisis at the start... And then on every subsequent page. The writer has no idea what a paragraph or a sentence is. You do get rhe feeling though, that the writer has a good book in him somewhere. This just isn't it.
We're told there is a financial sector crisis at the start... And then on every subsequent page. The writer has no idea what a paragraph or a sentence is. You do get rhe feeling though, that the writer has a good book in him somewhere. This just isn't it.
May 6, 2010
Reckless is a solid thriller with a compelling plot that fits almost too comfortably into the economic climate of our times. The fast paced, yet believable story is underpinned by interesting characters that put a face on events that would otherwise be lost in the scrolling headlines. I would recommend this to anyone who enjoys conspiracy thrillers. Reckless is tailor made to the new interconnected world we live in.
Copy won in the Goodreads First Reads giveaway.
Copy won in the Goodreads First Reads giveaway.
June 7, 2010
Another solid entry in the Ty Hauck series. The worldwide financial crisis serves as the basis for the plot as Ty, now a security firm investigator, is asked to help out an influential client who has intuitive misgivings about her latest boy toy. Things are indeed off kilter and Ty ramps up the action to figure out how all of the various suspicious deaths, investment groups collapsing, and shadowy financers and government officials are interconnected. The book is an enjoyable read.
December 1, 2012
I really enjoy reading Andrew Gross books. I came across him when he started writing under the James Patterson brand and liked the books so much I decided to read other novels he had written. Certainly deserves praise for the books.
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