Features
- Cover Type: Hard Cover with 352 pages
- Published by: Forge Books May 12, 2009
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0765312581
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0765312587
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Book Dimensions:
9.2 x 6.5 x 1.3 inches
- Weighs: 1.2 pounds
From Publishers Weekly
Land (
The Seven Sins) introduces a tough original heroine, Caitlin Strong, a fifth-generation Texas Ranger, in the first of what hopefully will be a long crime series. Hyperpatriot Harmon Delladonne runs MacArthur-Rain, a corporation with tentacles in all areas of the U.S. government's security apparatus. Delladonne's project Fire Arrow threatens both the privacy of all Americans and their very lives. Strong, the only gun-totin' female in the legendary Texas Rangers, stumbles onto this plot when she finds her supposedly dead husband, Peter Goodwin, in an institution devoted to treating torture victims. She teams with a dangerous former foe, Cort Wesley Masters, to fight not only Delladonne but Emiliato Valdez Garza, the phantomlike head of the Mexican mafia, and the giant Guillermo Paz, a Delladonne henchman who ponders Kierkegaard while slaying his many enemies. The revelations are constant, the characters compelling and the action fast and furious.
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From Booklist
Former Texas Ranger Caitlan Strong changed careers after she was wounded in a shootout and after her husband was reported dead in Iraq. Now she’s a psychological therapist in San Antonio, and her first patient is her husband! Admitted as a John Doe, he has no grasp on reality. Then the monolithic security firm for which he worked decides to kill him, fearing that he may reveal the company’s plans to insinuate itself into American lives. Caitlan thwarts the attempt to kill Peter, with an assist from Cort Wesley Masters, a former Mob hit man who had intended to kill Caitlan just as the baddies arrived to kill Peter. Naturally, an alliance is formed between Caitlan and Masters, who take on the security firm. It’s easy to knock this over-the-top thriller: it has a preposterous plot, cartoonish villains, and a body count to equal the sum of Die Hard and Rambo. Yet readers will be loath to set it down for a minute. Caitlan is a female Spenser, and Masters is a surprisingly complex composite of every assassin-with-a-conscience you’ve ever met in a crime novel. Flawed but incredibly energetic and readable. --Wes Lukowsky
Reader Reviews
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While I was trying to earn an honest dollar, I spent ten years in South Texas. I lived in a small town of 2300 south of San Antonio. While I was there I met two Texas Rangers. I can still see them with the big grey Stetson and a .45 on their belt with their star on the other side. I got to know them and I have to say that Mr. Land is dead on with his ficticous Texas Rangers, right down to the way they talk. In Texas, the two most feared men are the game wardens and the Texas Rangers. The city of San Antonio has played a big part in my life and here too Mr. Land is spot on with his discriptions of the city. Now the first thing you have to get use to is that this book is not one of Oprah's book of the month winners. No, this is a lazy afternoon read. A book you can pick up and read and then set down go about your business and pick it up later type of book. If you accept this, then you have terrific read. Let's do this the easy way: You have one Ranger who is a woman. Who has emotional issues and baggage. Whoa! Some people say that this character could easily be a man. NO WAY! The lady ranger has a profound affect on the two bad guys that a man could not have. Besides the sex scenes would be really weird. Next you have a Texas Outlaw who is a killer,but wants to change. You have a crazed killer, Paz, who reads Kierkegaard and also is trying to find himself. Finally you have a very very bad man with no redeeming qualities. Let's see, yea that is about right. The plot starts out good and then turns into way out sifi with the use of lasers as murder weapons. The strong point of this book is the action. Here the moto is simple: shoot straight and kill as many of the f___kers as possible. All in the name of frontier justice. The ending battle is writen for the movie that this book will make. Talk about over the top! The "good" guys can't miss and the bad guys can't hit the side of a barn. But what the hell.. it is entertaining. The weak area is the plot and "oh this just happened" and this "just sort of appeared" and "out of the blue this happened." Well you get the point. Look this is a fun book and it is not boring and the atmosphere is great. Time out! There is one point that I have to complain about and those of you who may have read some of my reviews know I know my guns. In the first chapter the lady ranger, about 5'8" and around 150-165 lbs, puts a wounded male ranger,about 6' and 180-190 lbs., on her back. The wound ranger is shooting his pistol around her ear, she is stumbling toward and SUV with a 12 gauge shotgun in ONE hand and a Mini 14 rifle in her other hand AND she is shooting both of these at the same time. NO WAY JOSE! I tried it and you can't do it.
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