Riptide FBI Series


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  • ISBN13: 9780515130966
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Becca Matlock is fleeing a murderous stalker and the NYPD-who believe she was having an affair with the governor and then murdered him. She takes refuge in Riptide-home of a college friend-but the risks have only just begun.

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Rebecca Matlock is in the thick of politics, enjoying her work as a speechwriter for the governor of New York, who's facing a reelection campaign. What she's not enjoying are the menacing phone calls from a stranger who refers to himself as "your boyfriend" and warns her that he will kill the governor if she doesn't stop sleeping with him. Although Becca has never had a sexual relationship with her boss, she is increasingly frightened by the phone calls. The police, who were initially sympathetic to her plight, make it clear that they regard her as a hysteric, even after the stalker murders an innocent bystander to convince her that he means business. Becca seeks refuge in Riptide, an isolated community on the Maine coast, but terror continues to dog her. The skeleton of a woman who may be the missing wife of a college friend is unearthed in the basement of her new house; the stalker tracks her to her chosen refuge; and she is sought by the police and the FBI following an assassination attempt on the governor.

With the appearance of Adam Carruthers, a stranger who says he's her guardian angel but doesn't tell her who sent him, the plot makes a dramatic right turn that requires a willing suspension of disbelief. It seems that Becca's father, a high-ranking intelligence officer, went underground when she was a baby in order to protect his family from reprisals by a Soviet agent whose wife he had accidentally killed. Now it's payback time, as Thomas Matlock calls in his own intelligence community to neutralize the threat on his daughter's life. All the attendant testosterone speeds up the action and propels it toward a shoot-'em-up conclusion, but it also sacrifices a clearer portrayal of Becca's feelings about her father's deception and abandonment. At the same time, the switch from a damsel-in-distress story to a high-velocity espionage thriller relegates the skeleton in Becca's basement to a secondary plot point that is resolved a bit too tidily. Catherine Coulter is short on character development and explication, but she weaves a suspenseful web of danger and intrigue, and for her many admirers, the fact that there seem to be two novels trying to coexist in one book may not be too much of a good thing. --Jane Adams

 

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Holly Christensen Said: Praying for Becca's death... Jul. 27th 2010

I undergo I'm a little New to the party as this aggregation was released nearly decade years ago. However, I just ended reading it and was so harried I had to post a review. Becca is an unlikely and massively galling character. She is a political speechwriter on the separate from a stalker. She has zero undergo with firearms but decides she needs a gun for protection so she buys digit of a haphazard guy at a pushcart stop and takes digit "lesson" from him and dead she is James Bond. I know that when datum fiction you often hit to suspend uncertainty but this novel was asking too much. Becca is surrounded by the NYPD, FBI and CIA and they are letting her the victim/witness call the shots on the investigation? This would never happen. Coulter tells us it happens because Adam and the agents actualise Becca needs to be a part of this for her possess mental substantially being but I conceive the agents would be more afraid with concealment their asses and ownership themselves alive. Seriously, Becca is going to cover Adam's back as he runs to a farmhouse possibly inhabited by a dangerous killer? Not digit of the MANY agents who are at the scene? There were at least two dozen nowadays in this aggregation where I meet desired to blow Becca. Oh, and Adam freaking discover and proving to Becca that he's not merry by kissing her? What, is he in seventh grade? Jesus......

K. Boatman Said: Comic relief. Feb. 26th 2010

This book started out alright but the farther I got into it, the more ridiculous it became. I am so glad I didn't acquire this book but checked it discover from my library. Don't squander your time unless you poverty absurd talking and unrealistic plots. Empress Coulter makes everyone look and good like stupid idiots with all the silly explanations. The book got so confused that I just started laughing. It's rattling beatific comic relief if you don't want a earnest perplexity to read. Don't acquire this book. It's not worth it but for a laugh, analyse it out at your topical library.

It's Got to Be Good Said: Ugh. Can't finish this book. Feb. 8th 2010

Started kind of perky, then the trite treatment of diminutive townsfolk went on a little long.

Two or three paragraphs at night and I am good asleep.

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K. L. Morton Said: Won't be disagreeable another one Aug. 24th 2009

I will preface this by locution Empress Coulter is digit of my every time favorite romance authors. I will move to read and re-read her romance novels. However, I will not be disagreeable another one of her FBI books. This aggregation I change was so poorly cursive it was meet breaking my heart that it was by Coulter. The talking was awful. The news wasn't such better. I bought it because I love a good perplexity as well as romance but hadn't proven out some of Coulter's yet. It was not as capricious or shocking as I'm trusty she would've liked. Just the language utilised to describe things, it measured like I could've written this book I'm a slummy writer . Things were artefact over explained and dialog was just redundant. I didn't even like the main character Becca. Oh and for whatever think it was meet oh so bizarre how the bad man only ever called her Rebecca, like that modify mattered! I see same quoting some of the blah from this aggregation but I wouldn't want to sift through it again. Don't squander your time or money on this one.

Eleanor Flint Said: Riptide FBI Series Aug. 6th 2009

REceived in superior condition. The rattling short shipping instance was phenominal. Be glad to do business with vender again.