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I enjoyed this book very much. I am a hugh fan of the Burn Notice series and this book is equally top rate like the show. I want to read each and every book and I hope there are many more to come out soon.

Information. Control. Trust issues. Counter action and technology. Contacts. Luck, and a great backup team to keep your skin on your bones.

Sam Axe, again, comes to Mike with an interesting proposal: the wide world excitement of yacht racing.

Yup. Yachts. Rich people. More rich people. Mafia too, of the Italian Cosa Nostra flavor. Oh joy! While Michael would prefer to stay off the mafia radar, where the innocent and the helpless are the unwitting targets of nefarious and evil doers of the world, who all oddly reside in or near or magnetically attracted to Miami, Michael finds himself saying yes, when he wants to say no.

Gennaro Stefania is the navigator of a luxury racing yacht and is participating in the Hurricane Cup in Michael's neck of the wood. With money, there are a lot of problems. Gennaro knows this well enough. He's married into some tough European blue-bloods and now, unbeknownst to Gennaro's wife and daughter, Maria and Liz, are actually hostages by an unknown evil third party as they cruise in their own ship through the Atlantic toward Gennaro to watch the race. A website streaming an unaware wife and daughter going about their business, Michael must maneuver through the morass of slight of hand tricks of the mafia, Gennaro's own issues, as well as the double dealing complexities of yachting and what is really going on besides the obvious. Simply put, the yacht race is being fixed by a well known Italian Mafioso, Christopher Bonaventura, and friend to Gennaro. This complicates matters as Gennaro is being blackmailed to lose the race when Bonaventura is fixing the race for Gennaro's yacht team to win, and Bonaventura is the likely unknown third party--but not all is as it seems. As Mike, Fi and Sam, even Nate and Ma, get into the end game that feels more like Russian roulette, there is more than a simple fix of winning the Cup, and something much deeper, nefarious and surprising. For everyone.

Once again, Goldberg delivers a developed, complicated but accessible and witty story with the usual intelligence and well-thought out plot and told with such clarity, memorable one-liners that still astounds me. He again captures the very essence of the TV characters, which I appreciate. While it's the usual tale you've read, watched and have heard before, Goldberg manages to give it a cool flare that is addicting and attractive. Where he gets his material, all the tech-savvy lingo and knowledge, the vivid depiction of the spy-life and how they do it, well, continues to amaze me and capture my interest. This is a great summer read or lounge by the pool distraction or just something different from all the, bland, boring, unimaginative usual stuff out there, and it kept my interest to the end, unlike The Fix, which got a little dull and predictable after the halfway mark, but again, the dialogue is SO good.

I only had one beef, which was the editing. More often than the first book The Fix, were even more basic mistakes of someone not proofreading the final script before putting it to press. That included basic grammar and sentence structure, etc, but also to the issue that things described, said, explained had no context, in that, I'm not savvy with the spy-world so what Goldberg might consider common knowledge, wasn't for me, so it over my head. Have Google near by. Sometimes Goldberg can get too tongue-and-chic and a know it all, but I don't mind doing my own research either.

For people not familiar to the show and the characters of the TV show on USA Networks. The dialogue and characters may seem stiff, barren and lacking emotional depth and can came off rather stripped of emotion and too stark but it's the characters I see on TV that I see played before me when I read Goldberg's clever tie-ins. It is a stripped down mystery/thriller and if you want more cushion as in deep-thinking emotional connection to the characters, you won't like this book. Emotion is marginally part of the story but the story is still compelling. Most importantly, each book seems to stay in tandem to each season, so no constant re-cap of the TV show, but an actual tie-in that stands on its own while giving context to the TV series as well. Usually, I get tired of a series that follows the same formula and lack of invention of elevating a story beyond more than it is, but somehow, Goldberg has. That's called talent, and it's rare. If anything, Goldberg's wit and clever one-lines and insights more than enough made up for any flaws I found in this book, and maybe, it'll get you to watch the show and re-evaluate Goldberg's very real talents.

I enjoy reading the Burn Notice books. Easy, quick, and it follows the TV show closely.

this book was just ok. i honestly liked the first book "the fix" more. Tod Goldberg totally nails the narrative style of the series and the attitudes and styles of Michael,Sam,Fiona and even Nate. However, the plot and story just kinda roll along with nothing really terribly exciting happening. I would recommend this book to die hard Burn Notice fans only. If you don't watch the show, you probly will not like this book.
I would totally love it if Tod Goldberg wrote a Burn Notice book with Michael Shanks character Victor in it.(yes, i know Victor's dead on the show-but the book series hasn't even touched on that plot line yet!) It could happen. That would be awsome! I'd pay well over market price for that!

Loved this book and the first tie in,it reads like an episode.All around great book and a great price.