J.D. Robb discussion

New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann, whom USA Today calls “the reigning queen of military suspense,” breaks out a rapid-fire collection of pulse-pounding, heart-tugging stories and novellas featuring the intrepid men and women of Troubleshooters Inc., fiction’s hottest ultimate counterterrorism squad.

• Tough-as-nails Troubleshooters operative Sam Starrett learns the agony of loving someone in danger—and the hell of waiting on the home front—as his wife, Alyssa, hurtles into a foreign hotspot that’s about to boil over.

• Navy SEAL Frank O’Leary’s ill-fated holiday reunion with his older brother takes a turn for the better—when a chance encounter on a rainy New Orleans street gives Frank a reason to be thankful after all.

• In a maze of tunnels deep beneath a military base in Germany, Jules Cassidy, Alyssa Locke, and their comrades in arms match wits with terrorists on a mission with explosive consequences.

Plus more never-before-released adventures featuring Jenk, Izzy, Gillman, Lopez, Kenny, Savannah, and other members of SEAL Team 16—along with Suzanne Brockmann’s exclusive interviews with her beloved characters.

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Book Discussion

This was very uneven and there seemed to be a lot that was phoned in or included to up the page count. I'm glad to move on next month's read.

Not much of a fan on this book. Too many uninteresting stories

Susan wrote: "Not much of a fan on this book. Too many uninteresting stories"

It seemed like so much was filler, only there to get the page count up.

Why would a respected author like Brockman, self publishing here, be interested in just getting the page count up? I can understand if you don’t like the stories but this goes to character.

I see it as busy or perhaps not terribly interested in the short story format. Not a character flaw. Maybe this was pushed on her by the publisher who just wanted to make another buck off a successful series. Who knows? This was not very good / up to her normal standards.

When I first read this collection of shorts, I thought she was trying to tie up the Troubleshooters series and give us just a little more. I liked them, especially the Frank O'Leary story.

That was my feeling.

Anita wrote: "When I first read this collection of shorts, I thought she was trying to tie up the Troubleshooters series and give us just a little more. I liked them, especially the Frank O'Leary story."

agree...I'm only a few stories in, but I'm enjoying these little bite sized snippets with the gang! I don't get the sense she's creating filler here at all. I'm enjoying the author's notes as well - that says to me that the stories mean something to her.
Just my take...

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