baronessekat | 2021 Reading Challenge: a book published anonymously

Wild Storm by Richard Castle

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Someone is shooting planes out of the sky. The big mistake they made was that one of the planes they shot was one that was carrying master spy, Derrick Storm. He manages to save the plane before it crashes like all the other, but that puts him n the mission to find out who is behind it, because he knows these planes were not being taken down by conventional rockets/missiles/ammo. They are being sliced out of the sky by a laser that should not exist.

His mission takes him from a field in Maryland, a suburb in California, a business in Panama, an archeological dig in Egypt and an ocean liner in the Mediterranean and it will take all his know how and strength to bring the mastermind to judgement.

***

This was a pretty straight forward "no brain needed" spy thriller. Which honestly is kinda what I needed. I did like that unlike most of the genre I've read/endured there was no pointless sex scene. In fact there were no sex scenes. All of it was illuded to, but not in your face.

There was a bunch of "suspend your belief in reality" moments, but I expect that in the genre.

And I love that Robert Petkoff, the reader, sounds enough like Nathan Fillion, who played Richard Castle on the TV, that it made me nostalgic to go watch the show again.

Overall, nothing to write home about but not bad either. Pretty much middle of the road.

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