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Got The Look
Jack Swyteck Series #5

by James Grippando



      The FBI is trying to rescue a kidnap victim in a startling underwater scenario.  A one million dollar ransom has been paid and the victim is to be released in an underwater cave connected to the Florida aquifer. Turns out, there's nothing to rescue but her remains for a funeral. The Kidnapper had demanded that the husband "pay what she's worth," and the one million was not enough.

Attorney Jack Swyteck is pretty sure he's really in love with the beautiful Mia Salazar, and thought the feeling was mutual.  His world is jolted when she is kidnapped, and he discovers that she is married to a very wealthy man.

FBI agent Andie Henning is working on a case that she believes involves a serial killer...probably the man who has kidnapped Mia.  Mia's husband receives a ransom demand from the kidnapper.  "Pay what she is worth."  He decides that, since she is two-timing him with Swytek, she really isn't worth anything to him and he makes it clear that he isn't going to pay to get her back.  At this point, Jack isn't sure how much she's worth to him either, but desperately tries to come up with a suitable ransom and in the meantime, to figure out who the killer is, and find and rescue Mia.

The Florida setting is superb and the details on the aquifer fascinating. This story has a multi-layered plot that gets confusing at times, and doesn't really provide the kind of thriller suspense that I had anticipated from the usually very good Grippando.  The whole thing doesn't quite come together satisfactorily. Swyteck, his friend, Theo Knight and Mia's husband are great characters, but the FBI agent, Andie is a little less than believable. That doesn't mean that I didn't greatly enjoy Got the Look ...I really did, and spent most of the night finishing it up.  It just didn't quite come up to my expectations.

The Book

HarperCollins
January 3, 2006
Hardback
006056458X
Mystery / Suspense
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Excerpt
NOTE: Explicit violence

The Reviewer

Beverly J. Rowe
Reviewed 2006
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