- Hardcover: 278 pages
- Publisher: Minotaur Books (4 Sep 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0312358954
- ISBN-13: 978-0312358952
- Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 14 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,996,385 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Today's best action heroine is back with a bang. Cross your fingers and toes that she survives for future adventures - you'll definitely want her to.' LEE CHILD
--This text refers to an alternate
Hardcover
edition.
Ken Bruen
'Charlie Fox is fast becoming the must-read heroine of mystery...
The narrative moves like a banshee on speed...with a marvellous twist that
I never saw coming... This is mystery on the grand scale and yet so simply
written that you nearly miss how cleverly it is constructed' --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
The narrative moves like a banshee on speed...with a marvellous twist that
I never saw coming... This is mystery on the grand scale and yet so simply
written that you nearly miss how cleverly it is constructed' --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
It has its moments...,
By Mrs Campbell "lynbrown" (Scotland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Second Shot (Paperback)
My first book about Charlie. I enjoyed most of it but not enough to go and seek out the others in the series. I found the character of Simone, the mother, poorly drawn. Despite what had happened to her in the previous couple of days, would she have rerally wandered off and taken her eye off Ella at the Zoo? Also the sudden death of a central character was a bit odd. Lastly, the granny is shown as loving in the cookie making scene yet within a couple of days her character has totally changed- not believable.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Less good than some of the others in this series,
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This review is from: Second Shot (Paperback)
I love Sharp's Charlie Fox series but thought this was less good than some of the others. Right from the start this book feels a little forced, something which is unusual, I think, for this author. Unlike some of the other reviewers here, I like the books where Charlie is a bodyguard. Here she is back in America after her last traumatic outing, but something about the whole story just doesn't ring quite true.The characters of Simone and her young daughter Ella feel wrong, and Charlie's sudden maternal feelings for what I considered an unattractive child just didn't work, important as they are for where the series goes in the future. Even the lovely Sean is less intense than usual - and makes a mistake towards the end which then has no consequences, something unusual for Sharp. So certainly not a great book or classic Charlie Fox but this is still a very good read: I really like Charlie and Sean and while this installment doesn't really add any insight into their relationship, it does set us up for their move to the US. If you haven't read Zoe Sharp before then this is not the place to start - and if you have, the series does pick up again in later books.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Second Shot,
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This review is from: Second Shot (Paperback)
I picked up this book on a whim at my local bookshop one day at lunch and have only just gotten around to reading it. It's my first Zoe Sharp book and although I don't think it will be my last, I dont think I'll be rushing out to buy another any time soon.'Second Shot' follows the story of Charlie Fox who is a hired bodyguard assigned to be sent overseas to America to help protect Simone Kerse and her 4 year old daughter, Ella. Simone and her daughter have recently won the lottery and are now multi millionnaires, Simone, fearing for both hers, and her daughters safety travel to America to elude Ella's father and hopefully hunt down Simone's long lost father. Theres a lot of action and the writing is good along with the pace, however, the only downside is that it all seems a bit far fetched. It's hard to believe and therefor the quality suffers. Worth the read for some quick thrills but theres nothing new here.
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