The Bounty ticks off all the ingredients in the action-adventure thriller recipe book.Įvanovich & Hamilton’s narrative pacing is fast, unrelentingly so. And, I have been known to enjoy some wildly escapist action-adventure fiction in my time, e.g. That said, it is not unusual for me to join a series partway through it rarely phases me. So, to be clear, I was diving into this Fox and O’Hare Series at Book #7 with no background or pre-conceived ideas apart from the attention-grabbing synopsis above. In March 2020 it was reported that Evanovich had sold world rights to her next four titles (which included this novel The Bounty) for a substantial 8-figure sum. With fond memories of a very early Stephanie Plum novel I read back in the 90s, I jumped at the chance to reconnect with the publishing juggernaut Janet Evanovich has since become. Genre: Action-Adventure, Thriller, Mystery, Dramaĭisclosure: If you click a link in this post and make a purchase, I may earn a small commission. (Atria Books – Simon & Schuster, March 2021) Too bad they can never agree on anything.įrom a remote monastery in the Swiss Alps to the lawless desert of the Western Sahara, Kate, Nick, and the two men who made them who they are today must crisscross the world in a desperate scramble to stop their deadliest foe in the biggest adventure of their lives. As the stakes get higher, they must also rely on Kate’s own father, Jake, who shares his daughter’s grit and stubbornness. Kate and Nick know that there is only one man who can find the fortune and bring down the Brotherhood-the same man who taught Nick everything he knows-his father, Quentin. But now they face their most dangerous foe yet-a vast, shadowy international organization known only as the Brotherhood.ĭirectly descended from the Vatican Bank priests who served Hitler during World War II, the Brotherhood is on a frantic search for a lost train loaded with $30 billion in Nazi gold, untouched for over seventy-five years somewhere in the mountains of Eastern Europe. Straight as an arrow special agent Kate O’Hare and international criminal Nick Fox have brought down some of the biggest bad guys out there.

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