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72 Hours (2011)

by William Casey Moreton(Favorite Author)

3.82 of 5 Votes: 5

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English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Maroon Road Books

review 1: What an amazing book, held my interest from the first page to last. I couldn't go to sleep until I knew that Lindsay was okay. I can't imagine the fear of knowing that that you're destine to die with only 72 hours of life ahead of you. With a $500 million dollar bounty on your head where do you hide? Will she and her kids survive and can anyone save them? Where will she go without all of LA knowing where she is?Just a side note, there are a couple of typos in the very first chapter, don't let that deter you, this book is worth a couple of typos to read.
review 2: After fluff and nonsense, I wanted a book that would be action-packed and keep me on the edge of my seat. This was the book for that. But the premise is horrifically flawed, and the heroine wouldn't ... morehave made it two pages, and... if you're looking for a minor romantic thread, you'll find nary a sign of it, here. This is a man's man writing, and he doesn't consider pandering to the larger reading demographic.A man in prison is to be executed in 72 hours. He makes a deal: two minutes of air-time on television in exchange for the location of the two bodies of his victims. No gov't in their RIGHT MIND would allow it - or at least they would tape it and air it AFTER getting the location. But this writer thinks we'll believe that they let him go on TV... and announce to the world that he'll give $500 million to the first person who kills a particular woman and can prove it. Which makes her the target of every thug, drug addict, and mercenary in the free world. And of course he doesn't give up the bodies.And what does she do? She tells her children to meet her AT HOME!!! How. STUPID. Can you BE?!?!?!??! And all the way through the book, she continues this pattern: "I've been told not to leave the safe room, and there are killers in the tunnels, but oh! Do I hear a phone ringing on the other side of the compound? Let me just navigate four tunnels to go answer that..." It was irritating that Moreton thinks so little of his female characters.Of course Jean Claude VanDamme takes a weekend off his surfing/brooding to come out of retirement and play bodyguard to the woman and her children, at the request of the boss who fired him. (Makes perfect sense, doesn't it?) Insert gore (mists of pink brain matter, etc) and vast amounts of shooting/running... Until the man in prison makes ANOTHER deal. I'll tell you where the bodies are if you let me out to go with you. And they're dumb enough to buy it AGAIN!?!? C'mon... but Moreton does it. If you can believe that crap.And the book is riddled with spelling, grammar, and punctuation mistakes. So... this won't be making any top ten lists, anytime soon. less

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