Riptide (FBI Series)
by Catherine Coulter

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Book Review: This got published?? One star is too much.
Summary: 1 Stars

Chapter 5: Becca is in her rented house on the coast of Maine when she checks the weather report on TV and hears that the worst storm in years is approaching and everyone is being warned to go to shelters. The wind and rain hit. The lights flicker. She has bought candles and set them on her bedside table (perhaps in case the power goes out??). The thunder is deafening and the house is rattling. Get the picture? Then the last line of Chapter 5:

"Suddenly, with no warning, thunder boomed, lightning streaked through the sky, and the lights went out."

Suddenly?? No warning?? This was a surprise?? I should have thrown the book away right there.

Then there's page 45: "Had she come here just to be killed in a ferocious summer storm?" followed on p.48 by: ". . .making her wonder if she'd come to Maine only to be done in by a wretched storm." Did Coulter think we had forgotten she's already said that?

I could go on and on. My personal opinion is that anyone who thought this book - with it's convoluted plot(s) and inane, unrealistic dialogue and narrative - is a good read has NEVER read a really good book. Or they are 12 years old. This book stinks. I am not even giving Coulter the second chance I gave Steele. My review in a word, Yuck.

Summary of Riptide (FBI Series)

With the appearance of Adam Carruthers, a stranger who says he's her guardian angel but doesn't tell her who sent him, the plot makes a dramatic right turn that requires a willing suspension of disbelief. It seems that Becca's father, a high-ranking intelligence officer, went underground when she was a baby in order to protect his family from reprisals by a Soviet agent whose wife he had accidentally killed. Now it's payback time, as Thomas Matlock calls in his own intelligence community to neutralize the threat on his daughter's life. All the attendant testosterone speeds up the action and propels it toward a shoot-'em-up conclusion, but it also sacrifices a clearer portrayal of Becca's feelings about her father's deception and abandonment. At the same time, the switch from a damsel-in-distress story to a high-velocity espionage thriller relegates the skeleton in Becca's basement to a secondary plot point that is resolved a bit too tidily. Catherine Coulter is short on character development and explication, but she weaves a suspenseful web of danger and intrigue, and for her many admirers, the fact that there seem to be two novels trying to coexist in one book may not be too much of a good thing. --Jane Adams

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