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marbles66's review against another edition
4.0
Good
This is a good book. Fast moving with a few twists and turns in the plot. Would recommend this book to anyone who likes law mysteries.
This is a good book. Fast moving with a few twists and turns in the plot. Would recommend this book to anyone who likes law mysteries.
weaselweader's review against another edition
3.0
Honour among thieves? Hah, not bloody likely!
James Grippando has always been a pretty sure bet when it comes to suspense thrillers, legal thrillers and courtroom drama. But (hoping like the dickens this doesn’t mean he’s jumped the shark), CASH LANDING just doesn’t come close to clearing the bar that his own work has set for himself.
Ostensibly, CASH LANDING is the story of an ad hoc gang of amateur thieves who engineer a multi-million dollar cash heist from an airport warehouse. Revenge against “the man’s” theft of Ruban Betancourt’s restaurant, his home, and his livelihood during a questionable, underhanded mortgage foreclosure sounds like a nifty starting point for a low-key thriller but Grippando just doesn’t pull it off. His characters are wooden and entirely unlikeable despite the fact that they are obviously intended to be goodhearted picaresque rogues simply out to reclaim what they see as having been stolen from them by the establishment. The dialogue is stilted, cartoonish and all too stereotypical lowbrow. The theft and the resulting interactions between the gang members never really get particularly compelling. And the naïvete of Savannah Betancourt, Ruban’s wife, is simply off the charts. In an uncharitable mood, I’d be inclined to characterize her with a six letter insult, “s----d”!
At the halfway mark of the novel, my preconceived rating was 2- stars at best. But, somehow, somehow … at the half-way point, the action starts to pick up and the entertainment value of the novel becomes passable. Definitely not gripping or compelling, mind you … but passable! And, at long last, the ending was actually satisfying.
Bottom line … the whole novel comes in at a marginal 3-star rating with the recommendation that only die hard completionist Grippando fans bother reading it!
Paul Weiss
James Grippando has always been a pretty sure bet when it comes to suspense thrillers, legal thrillers and courtroom drama. But (hoping like the dickens this doesn’t mean he’s jumped the shark), CASH LANDING just doesn’t come close to clearing the bar that his own work has set for himself.
Ostensibly, CASH LANDING is the story of an ad hoc gang of amateur thieves who engineer a multi-million dollar cash heist from an airport warehouse. Revenge against “the man’s” theft of Ruban Betancourt’s restaurant, his home, and his livelihood during a questionable, underhanded mortgage foreclosure sounds like a nifty starting point for a low-key thriller but Grippando just doesn’t pull it off. His characters are wooden and entirely unlikeable despite the fact that they are obviously intended to be goodhearted picaresque rogues simply out to reclaim what they see as having been stolen from them by the establishment. The dialogue is stilted, cartoonish and all too stereotypical lowbrow. The theft and the resulting interactions between the gang members never really get particularly compelling. And the naïvete of Savannah Betancourt, Ruban’s wife, is simply off the charts. In an uncharitable mood, I’d be inclined to characterize her with a six letter insult, “s----d”!
At the halfway mark of the novel, my preconceived rating was 2- stars at best. But, somehow, somehow … at the half-way point, the action starts to pick up and the entertainment value of the novel becomes passable. Definitely not gripping or compelling, mind you … but passable! And, at long last, the ending was actually satisfying.
Bottom line … the whole novel comes in at a marginal 3-star rating with the recommendation that only die hard completionist Grippando fans bother reading it!
Paul Weiss
bookworm84's review against another edition
4.0
Another enjoyable book by Grippando. Mystery kept me guessing and wanting to read more. Loved seeing Swyteck make an appearance in the book.
bettyboop25's review against another edition
3.0
The author has a way of making you really hate the main character. All through out the book, I wanted him to lose. He was an intense, annoying, pathetic, lying SOB. I loved the book though.
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