Customer Reviews

Black Tiger

5 star:		(6)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

I read Black Tiger after reading Iron Butterfly (second in the series). Both of them are outstanding, but I would recommend starting with Black Tiger, as that will make the second one even more enjoyable.

These books remind me a lot of Lee Child's Jack Reacher series, with a dash of Robert Parker's Spenser thrown in (Lysander Dalton is more sophisticated than Reacher, and has a better sense of humor, but he is equally resolute).

The series is also notable for the capable female characters. In most thrillers the women end up having to be rescued, but in this series they can mostly look after themselves.

Like Iron Butterfly, Black Tiger's story builds up from a relatively minor and unexplained incident (in this case a home intrusion) into a big complex story (a violent conspiracy which has threads leading back to Dalton's past as a Marine officer). There are many incidents and problems to solve along the way. Black Tiger is densely packed with action, the pace of which never lets up.

Highly recommended. I would like to know when the next one is coming out.

I thought this book was well written through the end. The only reason I gave it 4 stars is because I think the publisher should have been a little better at picking up on the spelling errors in some of the chapters, and no, it wasn't jargon. But I digress...

The book's opening scene builds up alot of questions about why this was happening, and because you have all these questions needing answers you cannot help but read through this book to find them out.

Very good story, very plausible. I highly recommend it to people who enjoy espionage/thriller stories. I started it today, and I finished it as well. It was exciting, and had some funny moments in it as well.

I didn't know what to expect when I bought this book.This turned out to be an exciting book.The hero in this book is Lysander Dalton.He is a former Marine Corps Special Forces
officer.He had been expelled for striking a junior officer and
was court martialed and sentenced to Leavenworth.He was kicked out of the Marines and stripped of his rank.
After getting out of prison he purchased a farm where he grows
grapes that are made into wine.He at last has his privacy.One night he gets up to go to the restroom and his bed is shot full
of holes by an automatic weapon.The assailant is dressed in
commando attire.Dalton escapes his house and continues to wage a full scale gun battle with the commandos.He makes it to the
highway where he is picked uo by Valentina Mariposa.She is a
lawyer.They go to a police station to file a report.They wind up in a battle with false policemen.After this incident they decide to find out who is trying to kill Dalton.They go from Virginia to New York trying to find the culprits.Dalton even finds a girlfriend in the person of Elizabeth Houston.Dalton also finds a link with his past that leads to a frightening plot
that will take place.This is an exciting book.It will keep you on the edge of your seat.

This book ramps up the action right from the start, and the pace never lets up. Lysander Dalton is a Virginia winemaker, a man with a checkered past who has retreated from the world into his vineyard, basically wanting nothing more than to be left alone. It is not to be: the past catches up with him, with extreme violence.

He teams up with a long-legged, Porsche-driving, thigh-holster wearing lawyer by the name of the Valentina Mariposa, and together they investigate and unravel the mystery.

Sophisticated and ironic as well as a real page-turner, to my sense this is much better than the average thriller. Highly recommneded.

i started reading it around 10am stayed up until 2am. finished it. can not wait for the next book. good pace of writing. this author reminds me of kyle mills, daniel silva and john maxim.

A very fast-paced action-filled novel with many surprise twists and turns, and with a plot which is all too believable. The writing is crisp and sharp, with a sprinkling of sly good humor throughout. Valentina is in a class of her own, but even marginal characters like Dortmund are individual and alive. Highly recommended. Can't wait for the next Lysander Dalton book to come out.

Robert Brace's debut novel was a fairly easy read. Black Tiger starts right up, and hardly slows down in both pace and intriguing mystery.

About halfway through, the story stalls a bit, and never really has that full-out action assault ending I was hoping for. Interesting characters, although the main woman seemed a bit jaded and fake. Too James Bond-ish.

But overall, this was a solid start to a series that I would purchase the new 2nd book that just came out.

Then we might buy this more. The action is not bad, but the women just shed their clothes upon meeting our hero. James Bond had to do some work to achieve the same result.

Stylish laid back thriller. A real page turner: starts off with a bang, and keeps on rolling. Hero is an American version of James Bond, but much more realistic and down to earth. Two great female main characters. Highly recommended. Hope there's more coming - would be a great series.

A good, but not particularly compelling book. There are some funny lines and the story moves along briskly, but it's not great. It could have been better. It seems an odd criticism, but the book needed more graphic sex and a more charismatic hero. That might have made up for the by-the-numbers plot. Is it standard CIA procedure for agents to sleep with the people they're watching hours after meeting them? Are there actually CIA agents that are anything like Valentina? I think she needs her own series.