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'The narrative moves like a banshee on speed. Charlie Fox is fast becoming the must-read heroine of mystery ... Superb' Ken Bruen 'A fast and furious and very good read' Literary Review
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The only thing more terrifying than fighting for your life is fighting for someone else's...Bodyguard and ex-Special Forces soldier Charlie Fox would do anything to take her mind off her partner; shot, left for dead and now lying in a coma. So concentrating on a new assignment seems like the perfect way to escape the pain, and her own empty apartment. The job: to protect the naive daughter of an investment banker from a gang of kidnappers who prey on the children of the wealthy Long Island set. Kidnap is a lucrative crime for those with the nerve to pull it off. Usually those who disappear are returned unharmed - except this syndicate likes to take a piece of the victim as part of the pay-off. Still, it all looks simple at first. A round of exclusive boutiques, charity auctions, luxurious parties aboard million-dollar yachts - and few risks for an experienced operative. But Charlie soon finds out that defending a girl determined to put herself in danger is far from easy. And when her instincts lead her to suspect an inside job, she discovers that not everyone who mingles with the jet-set is what they seem - and the idle rich can be as ruthless as any criminal ...Fast-paced and authentic, Fifth Victim is an electrifying tale of cross and double-cross. An intoxicating thrill-ride that will keep you firmly on the edge of your seat.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
With her partner Sean Myer lying in a coma, ex-Special Forces soldier Charlie Fox takes a job as a bodyguard in Long Island, protecting the young daughter of an Investment banker, following a spate of kidnapping amongst the wealthy Long Island set. Whilst Charlie takes to her employer, the formidable Caroline Willner, the daughter Dina is a rebellious teenager who insists she doesn't need a bodyguard.
As Charlie accompanies Dina to various parties she meets three of the kidnap victims, all in Dina's set. All eventually returned home safely after a ransom was paid. They seem unfazed by their ordeal, and Charlie begins to suspect that what initially looked to be a straightforward job could have complications. For Charlie's instincts are telling her that not all the people she meets are what they seem. Could someone in this rich and privileged set be involved?
Charlie is a marvelous heroine, with a flawed past. Interestingly Parker Armstrong comes more into focus in this book more than in the earlier ones, which had me speculating!
As ever the writing is good and the characters well drawn. The book moves at a cracking pace towards a surprise ending with a jaw-dropping twist that has me eager for the next book. Not to be missed,
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Lizzie Hayes
As Charlie accompanies Dina to various parties she meets three of the kidnap victims, all in Dina's set. All eventually returned home safely after a ransom was paid. They seem unfazed by their ordeal, and Charlie begins to suspect that what initially looked to be a straightforward job could have complications. For Charlie's instincts are telling her that not all the people she meets are what they seem. Could someone in this rich and privileged set be involved?
Charlie is a marvelous heroine, with a flawed past. Interestingly Parker Armstrong comes more into focus in this book more than in the earlier ones, which had me speculating!
As ever the writing is good and the characters well drawn. The book moves at a cracking pace towards a surprise ending with a jaw-dropping twist that has me eager for the next book. Not to be missed,
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Lizzie Hayes
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Charlie Fox [nee Charlotte Foxcroft] is a "take no prisoners" kinda gal. Now nearing thirty, she takes on a new assignment for her company, Armstrong-Meyer, a "close-protection" [read "bodyguard"] organization: to protect a young woman from kidnapping. The preemptive action by the girl's mother is due to the fact that three of her friends have been kidnapped, a fourth is abducted in the early pages of the book, and the fear is that she will become the titular fifth victim. The families of all those involved are for the most part obscenely wealthy, with the requisite enormous homes [or, more accurately, estates] outside Southampton, up towards the eastern end of Long Island, multiple sports cars, private jets, yachts, etc.; the payment of ransom has not always ensured the safe return of the victim.
Charlie needs the distraction of this assignment, inasmuch her lover and `soulmate,' Sean Meyer, lies in a coma, his prognosis uncertain, following the events that ended the last book in the series, "Fourth Day," a near-fatal shooting three months prior
The author's background - thoroughly familiar with rifles and for that matter every type of gun imaginable, equally at home flying a helicopter and light aircraft as on the back of a horse and piloting a yacht - uniquely qualifies her to create a protagonist capable of getting into, and out of, one very challenging situation after another, and providing the reader with an exciting, eminently readable thriller along the way. The tension of the situation confronting Charlie in this entry, with Sean's life, or death, an uncertain constant, only adds to the suspense inherent in this well-written novel.
Recommended.
Charlie needs the distraction of this assignment, inasmuch her lover and `soulmate,' Sean Meyer, lies in a coma, his prognosis uncertain, following the events that ended the last book in the series, "Fourth Day," a near-fatal shooting three months prior
The author's background - thoroughly familiar with rifles and for that matter every type of gun imaginable, equally at home flying a helicopter and light aircraft as on the back of a horse and piloting a yacht - uniquely qualifies her to create a protagonist capable of getting into, and out of, one very challenging situation after another, and providing the reader with an exciting, eminently readable thriller along the way. The tension of the situation confronting Charlie in this entry, with Sean's life, or death, an uncertain constant, only adds to the suspense inherent in this well-written novel.
Recommended.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I love Zoe Sharp's Charlie Fox series - but the last two books (Third Strike and Fourth Day were always going to be hard acts to follow, and this one is a tad disappointing in comparison.
Charlie herself with her ex-Special Forces background and her complicated emotional life is a fabulous heroine who refuses to fit into the usual cliches. But after the shock ending to the last book, the emotional intensity of this one is less heated than the last two books and Charlie's personal life takes a back seat.
The plot is as twisted as ever, with great unobtrusive writing and characterisation. But I can't help feeling that there's something missing - for me, it's Charlie's intense and dark relationship with Sean Meyer which gives these books their edge and with that side-lined here, there is a slackening in the emotional tension.
Make no mistake, this is still head and shoulders above the average thriller - it's just not the best that Sharp can do.
Charlie herself with her ex-Special Forces background and her complicated emotional life is a fabulous heroine who refuses to fit into the usual cliches. But after the shock ending to the last book, the emotional intensity of this one is less heated than the last two books and Charlie's personal life takes a back seat.
The plot is as twisted as ever, with great unobtrusive writing and characterisation. But I can't help feeling that there's something missing - for me, it's Charlie's intense and dark relationship with Sean Meyer which gives these books their edge and with that side-lined here, there is a slackening in the emotional tension.
Make no mistake, this is still head and shoulders above the average thriller - it's just not the best that Sharp can do.
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Another brilliant book
Another great book about Charlie Fox and her exploits. Lots of twists and turns which is what you have come to expect but the ending left me shocked and I cannot wait till the... Read more
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Another eagerly awaited Charlie Fox book and yet again, no disappointments.
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Sharp does it again!
I was expecting great things from the follow-up to Fourth Day and I wasn't disappointed.
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My Favorite Writer's Latest Mystery
Powerful action heroine bodyguard Charlotte "Charlie" Fox finds love much more painful than gunshot wounds. Great character development! Packed with action.
Published 14 months ago by D. Osterman
Fifth Victim by Zoe Sharp
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