Bob Burke
ostensibly runs a telecommunications company in Chicago. He’s celebrating three
weeks being married when he gets a call – a former fellow Delta Force colleague
is in trouble with a casino in Atlantic City. The casino is tied into the New
York Mafia crime families. By the time Bob arrives in Atlantic City with $300,000
to pay off the debt, someone has tossed the colleague from a fifth-floor
window.
It’s not nice to
mess with Bob Burke. The casino sends three “security men” after Bob to Chicago to
collect what’s owed. It’s stupid to mess with Burke a second time, as the
three thugs soon discover.
At the colleague's funeral
in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, the casino’s payback is plotted out. And then
the fun begins.
William Brown’s Burke’s Gamble is
the second in the Bob Burke Action Thriller Series, the first being Burke’s
War. The narrative occasionally goes longer than a page without
concerted force being applied, but it’s rare. Action ripples across the story
so fast that a close read is mandatory to keep track of how fast things move.
The pace is wild and riveting.
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| William Brown |
Prior to beginning
the Bob Burke series, Brown write several action-packed suspense novels. All of
them are exciting reads, but it’s with Burke that Brown has hit his stride. Deftly
combining threads of big-stakes gambling, Mafia control, and special forces
action with experience in Iraq and Afghanistan, he weaves a highly entertaining
story. A new wrinkle is added with the arrival of former special forces from
the Netherlands and Germany whoa re now full-blown mercenaries, and a hunt for
purloined gold artifacts stolen from the chaos of the war in Iraq.
Like I said, Burke’s Gamble is one wild story.
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- My reviews of Brown’s previous books:
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