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Lethal

Lethal

bySandra Brown
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shy tatham
4.0 out of 5 starsi love u sandra
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 1, 2023
i know that her books are typically catered towards middle aged women but apparently i fall into that category because she never misses. ever. so many plot twists n turns and its never cheesy or corny ones either, or something annoyingly out of left field. i love how she paints a picture. and the men have actual character development! yippee!!! i will say its a bit hard to follow at times with how many characters there are but u eventually got the hang of it. also idk how to feel abt the ending, it’s implied but i was kinda hoping for a bit more. im not torn up about it tho bc everything else was amazing
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3.0 out of 5 starsA solid and competent book, but others are over-hyping it to its disadvantage
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 22, 2015
I enjoyed this book well enough but it seems others found it a lot more interesting than I did.

It kept my interest well enough to keep reading and finish but I was never so caught up in it I couldn't put it down to get a cup of tea, and I never got involved to the point that I felt any tension. A thriller is supposed to provide some tension at some point, so that was a little disappointing.

The hero character worked, the heroine mostly worked. The plot was sound - I didn't have to put up with inane plot contortions designed to "force" the two characters together into a romance - thank you Sandra, thank you so much. That rubbish always gets on my nerves, and is one of the biggest reasons I avoid most romance (and John Ringo novels). The sexual attraction and tension grew out of what was happening, without taking over the story and the behaviour of both characters rang true for the most part.

I wouldn't have minded some more action, and a bit more grit to the action there was. But this is where I think the problem with genre creep comes in - no thriller reader would comment, like one reviewer, that there was too much violence. That was a romance reader straying too far from their comfort zone. I, on the other hand, am a thriller reader and there was not quite enough "thrill" for my taste.

Depending how you look at it, Ms Brown got it right as a cross-genre novel, or didn't quite get it right for either.

Strangely enough it was the ending - the one that seems to have annoyed so many people? - that I appreciated most. Up until that point it had been predictable and even bland in parts - but that ending lifted the overall tone of the book for me.

It is possible that Ms Brown is on the verge of moving from "romance with some thriller" to "thriller" and is temporarily at a stage where neither genre group is fully satisfied. I have not read enough of her novels to know. If she does move to straight thriller, I think they will be more to my taste. In fact as I write this I am hoping she does and I find myself looking forward to what she might come up with.

I will read another Sandra Brown book, maybe even another couple, looking for books of hers with more of that feeling at the end of the book.
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shy tatham
4.0 out of 5 stars i love u sandra
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 1, 2023
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i know that her books are typically catered towards middle aged women but apparently i fall into that category because she never misses. ever. so many plot twists n turns and its never cheesy or corny ones either, or something annoyingly out of left field. i love how she paints a picture. and the men have actual character development! yippee!!! i will say its a bit hard to follow at times with how many characters there are but u eventually got the hang of it. also idk how to feel abt the ending, it’s implied but i was kinda hoping for a bit more. im not torn up about it tho bc everything else was amazing
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nhathcock
5.0 out of 5 stars condition of book and shipping
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 31, 2023
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Book was received in good condirion and was received in a timely manner.
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5.0 out of 5 stars BROWN DOES IT AGAIN!!!
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 26, 2011
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~Lethal~ Audio book~ Audio CD Unabridged Version~

**SPOILER** if you haven't read the book.

*Lee Coburn is accused of killing 7 people in the Royale Trucking Company in
Tambour, Louisiana. the next morning after the murders Coburn ends up in the yard of Honor Gillette laying on the ground, he's injured and dirty. Honor's 4 yr old daughter(Emily) spots in him thru her bedroom window. she goes down stairs to the kitchen tells honor there's a sick man laying in the yard. Honor goes out to help him. and there he was laying face down motionless he Springs up So fast honor didn't even have time to recoil, and sticks a pistol in her ribs he aimed it upward and to the left right her heart.

*Honor Gillette has to make a split-second decision that will save her and her four year old daughter from Lee Coburn an accused mass murderer. He says he is a victim of circumstance but Honor's only concern is their safety and what he plans to do with the gun pointed at heart. Coburn's mission is to absolve himself of the crimes he did not commit and find something hidden in Honor's house.

* He takes her in the house checking every room to make sure No one else is there just her and the child. After Coburn finds there's No one else there, he promises honor he won't hurt her or emily as long as she does what he says. mean while the tambour police and a tracker and dogs, are searching for him. they find his cell phone call log 2 calls one to the Chinese take-out and one from a telemarketer that's it in 36hours. he has no bank account,no credit cards nothing no paper trail at all.

* Honor asks Coburn how he knew her name, he said your Eddie Gillette's wife Right? honor said yes, eddie was a cop and in possession of something valuable and Coburn wants it. Honor's father in-law is coming over for a birthday celebration at 5:30 that being almost 8hrs away Coburn is hoping to have what he wants and miles away by then. honor insists she has nothing of any value that he could possibly want. that he had to have been misinformed.

* Coburn asks for honor's husband's personal belongings to find a clue left there by Honor's late husband Eddie a cop who dies in a car accident two years ago. died from a broken neck and other extensive injuries, He fails to find what he seeks. Coburn tells honor to call her father -in-law(Stan Gillette) to post pone the party doesn't want him showing up early eddie father tells her that the FBI is involved and every officer in 5 parishes are helping with the search, she convinces him not to come tells him she and Emily have some stomach virus and she doesn't want him to get it to. Eddie's father sends the cops to check on his granddaughter,

but Coburn is already gone. However, he shoots a cop Fred who he swears to Honor was sent there by the Bookkeeper who runs illegal trafficking and owns the local police, including Coburn believes her husband.

* Coburn has both saved Honor and terrorized her, yet as Honor asks questions his answers begin to make more sense about what he is doing. Going on the run was never on anyone's to do list but staying ahead of the local authorities and the FBI is a challenge she is showing she is up for and proving she is worth the risk Coburn is taking by keeping her with him.

*As more people become involved in the manhunt for them, Coburn and Honor tear across the state in search of the key to unlock the secrets with absolutely no idea what they are looking for. The place they keep landing is her father in law's house and it is time for a showdown with him. Coburn believes the hunt for answers began there and will end there one way or another even if it involves tearing apart childhood dreams and momentos. But will Honor be able to protect her husband's reputation or is she helping Coburn prove him to be a dirty cop.

*Meetings are set up, shots are fired, cars explode and the person behind Coburn believes is behind everything the elusive "Bookkeeper" is still lurking in the shadows. The mysterious "Bookkeeper" can't be found or identified but has been sending out the orders and running this nightmare organization from burn phones and secured emails.

Sandra Brown has done it again!! another gripping Story that I couldn't put down!

BRAVO! Ms.Brown BRAVO!!!

There was one downside to this......in this Novel Ms.Brown that she would Tease "US" (Readers) with a Cliffhanger! But you will have to Read it to Find out...
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Jan C.
5.0 out of 5 stars Lethal
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 20, 2023
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Great book, couldn't put it down
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Penny
4.0 out of 5 stars hate the Ending
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 21, 2023
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The book is super.Gets 4 stars because I hate the ending. Just one more chapter please and I am good
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Stephanie Seeber
4.0 out of 5 stars A journey of wondering who you can and cannot trust. Is the bad guy really the bad guy?
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 12, 2021
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A four year old girl runs to her mom to tell her about the injured man in their yard. The same man that is wanted for the murder of several people. This is the start of one of the toughest journeys that Honor and her daughter Emily will experience. They get dragged into a “venture” while they try to determine who they can trust and who is willing to do them harm. They put their trust and lives in the hands of an unlikely source.

Lethal was September’s book club book. I went in not knowing a thing about this book! I had no idea what to expect and it was a fairly quick read. It took me a couple of days to read. I only get a chance to read on those miraculous days my kids all go down for a nap or my oldest actually participates in quiet time and after the kids go to bed.

This book takes you on a journey. Throughout the whole book you are trying to figure out who Honor can trust and who is a danger to her and her child. You want to believe her husband is innocent as his name is brought up as possibly being a dirty cop. His death is also brought to attention as more than just a car accident. Someone called “The Bookkeeper” is behind everything. They have infiltrated every step along the way from Mexico to New Orleans. They help smuggle drugs and even human beings. No one is safe and you do not know what twists and turns will happen through the entire book. Even the ending leaves you wanting more. I definitely enjoyed this book and you will too if you like thrillers!
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Theresa Ranieri
5.0 out of 5 stars Captivating!
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 3, 2023
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Like to support women authors!
Her characters/plots so interesting!!
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Edward Gordon
4.0 out of 5 stars Unnecessary Sex
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 1, 2011
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"Lethal" (Grand Central Publishing, 2011) is Sandra Brown's latest crime thriller. It's a suspense novel about a widowed woman named Honor and her daughter, Emily, who are kidnapped (sort of) by a sexy undercover FBI agent named Coburn.

Coburn's on the run from a handful of cops and other agents who are on the corrupt payroll of the Bookkeeper, a shadowy villain who will stop at nothing to cover his or her tracks and kill anyone who tries to stop him (or her). As it turns out, Honor is unknowingly in possession of some very revealing information that can bring the Bookkeeper down, and the Bookkeeper knows it. So Coburn isn't really kidnapping them; rather he's saving their lives.

But even after taking all that into consideration, one quickly comes to the realization that the story revolves on only two main questions: Who is the Bookkeeper, and how many times will Honor and Coburn have sex?

Sandra brown is an ex-romance writer who apparently likes to keep the pornographic alive in her crime thrillers, no matter how stupid or out of place it comes across. The sexual theater of Honor and Coburn more often than not feels cut and pasted into the story rather than growing organically from it. In my opinion, the sex works only to slow down an otherwise fast-moving plot.

Ironically, while she ramps up the love/sex between Honor and Coburn she under-treats her most interesting character in the story, an assassin for the Bookkeeper named Diego. The life of Diego and the prostitute he rescues (instead of killing as ordered) is the truly romantic aspect of this story, and the treatment of Diego's character is deeper than either that of Honor or Coburn. Unfortunately, That results in an unbalanced story that leaves the reader wanting to know more about a minor character than any of the major ones.

But even if the main characters are thinner than the paper they're written on and the plot is so linear that even riders on the shortest bus could follow it, it is--in the end--a fun and fast read.

"Lethal" may be formula work, but Sandra Brown has some sixty novels to her credit, almost all of which have been bestsellers, and she knows how to write a story that will keep you turning the pages; without a doubt, this one does too. There's even an unexpected twist at the end, which I'll leave for you to discover.

"Lethal" in hardcover is very reasonably priced at Amazon.com ($15.69), and it's available on Kindle as well. It may not be "Silence of the Lambs," but it's certainly an entertaining read worth picking up.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Can love be hidden like a tattoo placed where no one can see it?
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 20, 2011
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Honor Gillette has to make a split-second decision that will save her and her four year old daughter from Lee Coburn an accused mass murderer. He says he is a victim of circumstance but Honor's only concern is their safety and what he plans to do with the gun pointed at her head. Coburn's mission is to absolve himself of the crimes he did not commit and find something hidden in Honor's house.

Whatever is driving Coburn to tear her house apart and terrorize her is nothing she knows anything about. Her late husband did not leave anything worth killing for and his death was accidental but Coburn begs to differ on all her accounts including the details she believes to be true about her late husband. As time goes by and more people wind up dead she starts to wonder who is telling the truth and who is pretending to.

Coburn has both saved Honor and terrorized her, yet as Honor asks questions his answers begin to make more sense about what he is doing. Going on the run was never on anyone's to do list but staying ahead of the local authorities and the FBI is a challenge she is showing she is up for and proving she is worth the risk Coburn is taking by keeping her with him.

As more people become involved in the manhunt for them, Coburn and Honor tear across the state in search of the key to unlock the secrets with absolutely no idea what they are looking for. The place they keep landing is her father in law's house and it is time for a showdown with him. Coburn believes the hunt for answers began there and will end there one way or another even if it involves tearing apart childhood dreams and momentos. But will Honor be able to protect her husband's reputation or is she helping Coburn prove him to be a dirty cop.

Meetings are set up, shots are fired, cars explode and the person behind Coburn believes is behind everything the elusive "Bookkeeper" is still lurking in the shadows. The mysterious "Bookkeeper" can't be found or identified but has been sending out the orders and running this nightmare organization from burn phones and secured emails.

Sandra Brown has proven year after year the incredible ability she has to write thrillers that draw you in and take you on a adventure. But this book far exceeds any in the past as it keeps you guessing as to who is the shadow boss, where is the key to the answers, and what is the motive behind all of this. Unbelievable barely scratches the surface of how great this book and when it all comes together you find yourself gasping with unexpected revelations. The only downside is Ms. Brown apparently likes to tease her fans with cliffhangers - which you have to read to understand.
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3.0 out of 5 stars A solid and competent book, but others are over-hyping it to its disadvantage
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 22, 2015
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I enjoyed this book well enough but it seems others found it a lot more interesting than I did.

It kept my interest well enough to keep reading and finish but I was never so caught up in it I couldn't put it down to get a cup of tea, and I never got involved to the point that I felt any tension. A thriller is supposed to provide some tension at some point, so that was a little disappointing.

The hero character worked, the heroine mostly worked. The plot was sound - I didn't have to put up with inane plot contortions designed to "force" the two characters together into a romance - thank you Sandra, thank you so much. That rubbish always gets on my nerves, and is one of the biggest reasons I avoid most romance (and John Ringo novels). The sexual attraction and tension grew out of what was happening, without taking over the story and the behaviour of both characters rang true for the most part.

I wouldn't have minded some more action, and a bit more grit to the action there was. But this is where I think the problem with genre creep comes in - no thriller reader would comment, like one reviewer, that there was too much violence. That was a romance reader straying too far from their comfort zone. I, on the other hand, am a thriller reader and there was not quite enough "thrill" for my taste.

Depending how you look at it, Ms Brown got it right as a cross-genre novel, or didn't quite get it right for either.

Strangely enough it was the ending - the one that seems to have annoyed so many people? - that I appreciated most. Up until that point it had been predictable and even bland in parts - but that ending lifted the overall tone of the book for me.

It is possible that Ms Brown is on the verge of moving from "romance with some thriller" to "thriller" and is temporarily at a stage where neither genre group is fully satisfied. I have not read enough of her novels to know. If she does move to straight thriller, I think they will be more to my taste. In fact as I write this I am hoping she does and I find myself looking forward to what she might come up with.

I will read another Sandra Brown book, maybe even another couple, looking for books of hers with more of that feeling at the end of the book.
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