Triple Cross [Paperback]

Brian Freemantle (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books (2004)
• ASIN: B000OTO36Y
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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Brian Freemantle [b. 1936] is one of Britain's most acclaimed authors of spy fiction. His novels have sold over ten million copies worldwide. Born in Southampton, Freemantle entered his career as a journalist, and began writing espionage thrillers in the late 1960s. Charlie M (1977) introduced the world to Charlie Muffin and won Freemantle international recognition--he would go on to publish fourteen titles in the series.

Freemantle has written dozens of other novels, including two featuring Sebastian Holmes, an illegitimate son of Sherlock Holmes, and the Cowley and Danilov series, about an American FBI agent and a Russian militia detective who work together to comabt organized crime in the post-Cold War world. Freemantle lives and works in London, Englad.

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5.0 out of 5 stars exhilarating thriller, February 29, 2004

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Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Triple Cross (Hardcover)

The soul of Moscow Crime Bureau Chief Dimitri Danilov is filled with vengeance as he desperately needs to kill Igor Gavrilovich Orlov for murdering his lover. At about the same time while Dimitri thirsts in frustration, insane yet brilliant Orlov begins his plan of a hostile takeover of his business rivals, the Italian and American mafias with his goal being king of kings of an international corporation of mobsters. Being Russian brings Orlov to the attention of Bill Cowley, chief of the FBI's Russian desk, who has his own problems dealing with alcohol.

Danilov and Cowley have worked together (see THE WATCHMAN) and share mutual trust and like something neither believes in towards their respective bureau's employees. As Orlov raises the death count including FBI agents and innocent bystanders as well as his rivals, Danilov and Cowley deal with their bureaucracies seeking to shift culpability elsewhere while also demanding full credit if success occurs. Frustrated they team up to stop a megalomaniac from triumphing in his hostile takeover bid.

Once again Brian Freemantle provides an exhilarating thriller that grips the reader once the three key characters have begun the march towards a final show down. The story line is fast-paced and filled with non-stop action. However, the key to a Freemantle tale is the cast. In this case, the two law enforcement leads remain consistent personality wise to the previous teaming yet their baggage is new while Orlov is a three dimensional villain whose deployment of his plan appears so real he steals the show. Mr. Freemantle has provided another entertaining winner.

Harriet Klausner

2.0 out of 5 stars Yuck., July 20, 2009

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S. Casper - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Triple Cross (Hardcover)

This book started with such promise, with the brother in law of a woman, and the woman killing people who had killed her son. And then floating the bodies down a river strapped to wooden crosses just to drive home the point that you don't mess with the Russian mafia. Sadly the rest of the book doesn't live up to the promise and instead wallows through the pages like the protagonist wallows through his self pity.