Black Horizon
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Description de l’éditeur
In Black Horizon, a riveting and timely thriller drawn from tomorrow's headlines, New York Times bestselling author James Grippando brings back popular Miami criminal defense attorney Jack Swyteck in an international case involving a devastating oil spill that pits him against his most villainous adversaries yet.
Three summers after the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe, oil is again spewing into the ocean—from a drilling explosion in Cuban waters sixty miles off the Florida Keys, creating a politically complex and volatile situation. Representing an American woman whose Cuban husband was killed on the rig, Jack finds himself in dangerous waters when he discovers that his incendiary case may be lethally connected to his new wife Andi's undercover assignment for the FBI . . . and that the looming environmental catastrophe may have been no "accident" at all.
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Bestseller Grippando draws inspiration from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill for his fantastic 11th Jack Swyteck novel (after 2013's Blood Money). Criminal defense lawyer Jack Swyteck and his new wife, FBI agent Andie Henning, cut short their honeymoon in the Florida Keys after an explosion on Scarborough 8, an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, results in a massive crude oil spill. Andie returns to Washington, D.C., where FBI higher-ups suspect sabotage was involved in the disaster. Back in Florida, Jack agrees to represent Bianca Lopez, the widow of a Cuban man killed on the rig, in a wrongful-death suit. In a concerted effort to get the case dismissed, the Chinese-Russian-Cuban oil consortium that owns the rig claims that Bianca's marriage doesn't exist. As Jack pursues the truth, he is kidnapped in Cuba and later threatened with disbarment by the FBI. Finely crafted dialogue and a realistic yet nuanced hero make this thriller a standout.
Avis d’utilisateurs
Oil Rig Explosion with a Love Story?
Who would think a book about a huge oil rig explosion with a love story twist would work, but it does. Well worth reading, I enjoyed it.
Another Grippando legal thriller
Grippando has written another legal action story with international flavor. Well done.
Black Horizon
OK at best as to plot, character development. And, wouldn't you think that HarperCollins is making enough money on Grippando's books to employ a decent editor? There are a number of cringe-worthy slip-ups in this book, eg, "Bianca" is "Rafael's husband." Anyone who's ever edited her own college paper and been distracted in the middle of recasting a sentence knows how that happened, but, geeze, HarperCollins, how about one more read through before you hit "print"?