Reckless

I won this book through GoodReads. (You're required to disclose if you got a book free in your online reviews now. It's some government regulation.)<br /><br /><a href="https://goodreads.com/book/show/6975850.Reckless" title="Reckless by Andrew Gross" rel="noopener">Reckless</a> by Andrew Gross starts off like one of those old episodes of <i>Columbo</i> where you see the crime and know whodunit but then get to watch Detective Columbo solve it. However, in this case, each piece of the puzzle reveals a much bigger picture and a much wider conspiracy than originally imagined. In any other mystery/thriller, the author's tendency to keep the reader one step ahead of the investigators would be really annoying. Here though, Gross is constantly mis-directing both the protagonists and us. The pacing of this novel is excellent and the short chapters worked well to keep me turning the pages. I'd recommend <a href="https://goodreads.com/book/show/6147542.Reckless__Brazen___2_" title="Reckless (Brazen, #2) by Maya Banks" rel="noopener">Reckless</a> for any conspiracy theorists out there. You'll love the twist ending.

I have had it with the Ty Hauck series. If Gross writes another one, I am not reading it. This one is the least plausible one of all and I really detest Ty's relationships with women which are disrespectful at the very best.<br /><br />In the first book, Ty tells Karen he is in love with her and never felt this way before. At the beginning of the second book, Karen has gone to Atlanta to help her elderly mother care for her elderly day who is losing his battle with Parkinson's and whiny Ty thinks she is away just to break up with him which she was not. She even invites him to come to Atlanta to spend Thanksgiving with her, her parents, her teenaged kids, and the dog but he tells her a lie that he will be spending the holiday with his daughter. He then proceeds to go to a casino during an investigation and spend the night having sex with a barely legal girl young enough to be his daughter then takes up with Annie, a restaurant owner with a Down syndrome son. <br /><br />In this third book in the series, he seems to see Annie as just someone to get sex off of. He is obsessed with a married woman he met in a grief class who was murdered, a woman he had an affair with that resulted in the birth of her son (the poor husband knew nothing of it). It turns out that the woman and her husband and daughter were murdered in a way to make it look like a robbery and the son- her illicit kid with Ty- witnessed it and got photos on his sister's cell phone but it was no robbery and was associated with a check on a man he had to do at Talon for a rich woman suspicious of her boyfriend.<br /><br />This book really out to be in a category of "ludicrous sci-fi" as it has the head of the United States Treasury and his counsel purposely destroying our economy in the recent economic meltdown along with some Saudis as a sort of jihad/greed plot with all sorts of weird sideplots. Oh and of course it had Annie jealous of a dead woman while Ty proclaims his undying love- until he asks to see the tatoo on the FBI agent's ass in a stalled elevator.

This is my third book with this character Ty Hauck and I really like him. Not too rough &amp; gruff, but just enough moxie to keep you interested and you know he can keep himself out of trouble. Most interesting plot with lots of espionage to keep it exciting and even a little nail biting at times. First time I listened to a book from start to finish. I like this listening to books....get lots of knitting done!!!

A classic 3.5 <br />I usually don't read this gender but something attracted me to it.<br />Plot development and character development was promising, however it became predictable to a large degree.<br />It will be a while until I tackle a thriller of this sort, written in the tradition of Lee Child .

I had no expectation at all from the beginning, but i thoroughly enjoyed this book!

Andrew Gross has had a seven-year partnership with James Patterson and it shows. I'm mixed about James Patterson who I thought wrote some great books early in his career - the first Alex Cross books were truly outstanding thrillers - and then became, quite frankly, a hack spewing out indifferent thrillers back-to-back. Andrew Gross has benefited in a sense from both sides of this equation - he's definitely learned the elements of a successful thriller and he's definitely learned to spew out the formula. You can probably guess that I'm not impressed with the latter half of the equation.<br /><br />I read a lot of thrillers and many of them are very good. Sure, they follow a formula, but the best ones go beyond that to deliver both plot and characters that make you want to keep turning the pages. Unfortunately for me this just didn't deliver anything beyond the average. The plot premise was definitely interesting: What if the recent economic crisis was actually evidence of a complex terrorist action targeting the financial sector? It's an idea with a lot of promise - a sort of <i>Law and Order</i> ripped from the headlines kind of thing (and I do love <i>Law and Order</i>).<br /><br />Where the problems come is in the characters who are pretty lackluster and typical. Yes, yes, the intrepid hero is intrepid and, well, heroic. Yes, yes, the government agent is female, skinny, and model-beautiful - can you see the TV mini-series being cast? If the book was skewed more towards the female agent, it'd be on Lifetime, but since it's skewed towards the intrepid hero think FX.<br /><br />Don't get me wrong, this was fairly entertaining, but not entertaining enough to keep me up reading and that's the minimum requirement for me to think it was a great thriller.

3 1/2 stars. Murder. Suicide. The collapse of the economy. Terrorists and jihad. Espionage. A little romance thrown in for good measure. How does it all tie together? Very neatly, by the end of the book.<br /><br />This is the third in the “Ty Hauck” series, but the first that I had read. It worked well as a stand-alone. There were a few references to what happened in the earlier books, but nothing that lessened my understanding of this one. Initially, I wasn't crazy about the writing. One sentence had me scratching my head. “Names of the unaccounted for he was charged with following up on.” Say what?<br /><br />This thriller/mystery is a quick and entertaining read when your brain is weary and you want an escape.<br /><br />I read a library copy of this book as part of the Stephen White – Alan Gregory Goodreads group read.

Reading from my bookshelves now -- this one first published in 2010. <br /><br />Ty Hauck partners at a private security company after leaving over 20 years on the police force. He hears on the news about a home invasion where most of the family is killed and realizes he knows the mother. As a secondary story line, Hauck investigates a supposedly wealthy man's background.<br /><br />I first learned of Andrew Gross in his co-authoring with James Patterson and I liked his writing style. I read the first book in this Ty Hauck series. I like Hauck's character. He can take care of himself, keeps going when things get tough, and makes good moral decisions. Wall street, stock trading, and other financial dealings get lots of mentions in this book. There's rough and tumble action, especially in the latter part. I would read the next book if I can find it.

Reckless is a highly charged thriller set in the fincial chao,s of the current recession.Andrew Gross packs a riveting style. The only book that didn,t bore me with the words hedge fund and subprime mortage. The author created two top notch characters the investigator Ty Hauck and Naomi Blum they have some serious chemistry going on. Yhe reader gets a roller coaster ride through a plot of finicial misdoings , high intrigue and murder.look for ward to reading more books by this author.

Günay Gafur'un Kâhin'inden sonra hiçbir maceranın beni yeterince tatmin etmeyeceğini bildiğim için, gerçekten merak ettiğim kitapları geri plana çekip vasat olduğunu tahmin ettiklerimi öne sürdüm. Kıskaç bu geçiş döneminde benim kasislerimden biriydi ve oldukça mantıklı bir karar verdiğimi kanıtlamış oldu. Klasik cinayet soruşturmasından ziyade bir ekonomik komployu soruşturması hikayenin türdeşleriyle aynı matematik çerçevede şekillendiğini gizleyememiş maalesef. Kötü diyemem ama biraz vasat buldum. Ty Hauck serisinin üçüncü kitabıymış, bence bağımsız da okunabiliyor. =)