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 enlarge | Authors: James Grippando, (none)
Publisher: Avon
Category: Book
List Price: $7.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  31 reviews
Sales Rank: 255878
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 480
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 0061097624
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780061097621
ASIN: 0061097624
Publication Date: May 1, 2000
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 Gosh, NO, I Really Didn't Like This. Read Why. October 1, 2007
The initial premise was great. You find a fortune in your attic, no one knows about it, it's in small bills, been there for years, not counterfeit, no one's looking for it, you can do whatever you wish with it. After my initial disgust with the hero's (hero?) over zealous need to make sure this money is "untainted", that he really has a legal right to it, I began to develop an interest in the somewhat complicated plot, even though the writing was not stellar. But the ending pissed me off. Totally unrealistic shoot um up scene with way too many contrived twists in the plot. I didn't buy it; I didn't like it. I was sorry I invested so much time for such a lame payoff. I had expected something more satisfying.
 One of Grippando's best... March 26, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a twisted story, but WELL WORTH the read, you won't want to put it down from the minute you start it to the very last page. Excellent. So many previews have already gone through the story plot, so I won't repeat...just get the book...it's a great read!
Wow!!! August 2, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
What a novel!
An expertly wirtten tale that keeps you guessing on a real roller-coaster ride the whole way through. Grippando writes intelligently, without too much insider law jargon.
This was my second Grippando adventure and it will certainly NOT be my last. One reviewer wrote how stupid the premise for the story was, saying in real life people wouldn't care where the money came from or why. Well thats rediculous. You mean to tell me if $200,000 came in the mail today in a myserious unarked box that you wouldn't bat an eye to see why it arrived? Besides, its a story, and Grippando take the ball and runs with it superbly.
I really had no complaints and would reccomend this to anyone.
 Perhaps I have become too jaded... June 25, 2005
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Having read a number of Grippando's books, I found this to be the least credible plot line of all. Why did everyone need to find out where the money came from? And what good did it do them in the end? Let's be real here...If someone handed you $200,000 or more, would you really need to know the why's and wherefore's in order to enjoy it? Or you could be stupid like the characters in this book and then what will you end up with?
I am glad that this is one of Grippando's earlier works because his newer novels are much better than this. Try "Last to Die" or "A King's Ransom".
 Ending have not got what it takes October 30, 2004
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Departing from a original idea Grippando created a very well conceived suspensed novel with a string of events carefully developed
Two strong characters appear in the plot, with lives destined to clash
The main one is Ryan, a doctor destined to a confortable material life that he forfeited in exchange for his professionals services in a small rural community for the despair of his divorced golddigging wife
The other is, Amy a talented tough minded would be astronomer young woman who is also a single mother that works in charge of the system network of a Colorado middle size law firm whose top manager also had a relation with Ryan's father past
Both of them have received a huge sum of money from the late Ryan's father, a former blue collar worker, and that is where the mystery begins surrounded by tales of blackmailing, rape, a powerful tycoon and safeboxs and accounts in sleazy offshore banks
The story is very well written and compelling all the way to a lackluster ending which might have been far better had the author thought a bit more, looks like he did not want to commit to a last brain push.
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