Jackpot
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3.3 • 23 Ratings
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
Teddy Fay hedges his bets in the latest thriller from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Stuart Woods.
When Peter Barrington and Ben Bachetti come under threat while working at a film festival abroad, Teddy Fay is lured to the glittering city of Macau to resolve the problem. He'll soon come to find that world of posh casinos, luxurious developments, and boundless wealth has a dark underbelly of crime and political intrigue . . . and that the biggest players behind the scenes may be far closer to home than anticipated. With international deals and private vendettas at stake, the villains behind the plot aren't about to let Teddy stand in their way. What they don't know is that this seemingly harmless film producer has more than a few tricks up his sleeve.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Bestseller Woods and Quertermous's busy fifth Teddy Fay novel (after 2020's Bombshell) takes the former CIA operative to Macau, where Centurion Studios owners Peter Barrington and Ben Bacchetti, who employ Teddy in his guise as movie producer Billy Barnett, need his help. Someone is threatening to blackmail Peter and Ben, who are in Macao for a film festival, with a fake video showing them cheating at a local casino. In his search for the culprit, Teddy crosses paths with American billionaire Arrow Donaldson, the head of a casino conglomerate in China; Li Feng, the CFO of China's largest telecom company, whose testimony could affect an impending trade deal between China and the U.S.; and CIA agent Millie Martindale, who's been part of "a task force in one of Arrow's Chinese casinos to identify Chinese government workers with gambling problems and recruit them as U.S. spies." Keeping track of the many players and their various schemes isn't easy, and Teddy has fewer opportunities to use his disguise skills than in his previous outing. Series fans will enjoy the ride, but this isn't the place to start for newcomers.
Customer Reviews
Jackpot
This is a terrible book. Extremely hard to figure out what they’re talking about. Not like a Teddy Fay book, at all. It’s time to retire the series. I won’t be buying anymore books from this series. And, why a co-author, terrible idea. Stuart Woods has told me he doesn’t care what readers think, and friends on Facebook have told me that too.
A disappointment
I’ve read voraciously for many years. In that time I stopped reading a book partway through only three or four times; I just added “Jackpot” to that list.
This book doesn’t seem to have had an editor involved.
It didn’t hold my interest.
I expected more from something with Stuart Woods’ name attached.
Very disappointing
This new “co-writer” is a disaster! This is not Stuart Woods style at all. This not How Teddy Fay works or acts. The whole thing was frustratingly alien.