The Catch: A Vanessa Michael Munroe Novel, by Taylor Stevens
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The Catch: A Vanessa Michael Munroe Novel, by Taylor Stevens
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“Stevens excels at depicting pulse-pounding danger… Her writing places her heads above most authors working in the thriller genre. Only Dan Brown and Lee Child come close.” —Dallas Morning NewsVanessa Michael Munroe, chameleon and information hunter, has a reputation for getting things done—often dangerous and not quite legal things. With blood on her hands and a soul stained with guilt, Munroe has fled to Djibouti, Africa. There, with no responsibility except a gig at a small maritime security company, Munroe finds stillness—until she’s pressured to work as an armed guard on a ship bound for Kenya. On board, Munroe discovers the contract is merely cover for gunrunning; when the ship is invaded off the Somali coast, she fights her way out—dragging the unconscious captain with her. But nothing about the hijacking is what it seems. The pirates had come for the captain, and continuing their pursuit, they unwittingly raise the killer’s instinct Munroe has tried so hard to bury. Wounded and on the run, Vanessa Michael Munroe will use the life of her catch as bait and bartering chip to manipulate every player, and wash her conscience clean.
From the Hardcover edition. The Catch: A Vanessa Michael Munroe Novel, by Taylor Stevens- Amazon Sales Rank: #524694 in Books
- Brand: Stevens, Taylor
- Published on: 2015-06-09
- Released on: 2015-06-09
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .80" w x 5.18" l, .65 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 384 pages
From Booklist In this sequel to The Doll (2013), Vanessa Michael Munroe is utilizing her gift for languages, living in Djibouti as Michael, a man, and working as an interpreter for a maritime security company. Her latest assignment finds her aboard a ship, which she quickly discovers is running guns. The ship is attacked by pirates off the Somali coast, but Munroe escapes, taking the captain with her. Turns out the captain is really what the pirates were after, and she hides him in a small private hospital while she tries to figure out her next move. The plan? Hijack the ship back, of course. This action-adventure thriller moves along at breakneck speed with the requisite violence peppering most of the pages. Munroe is a smart, fiercely strong, yet damaged woman in the vein of Lisbeth Salander, and she could hold her own with Robert Ludlum’s Jason Bourne or Barry Eisler’s Rain. For fans of high-energy action. --Stacy Alesi
Review “A great page-turning choice for a read-it-in-one-sitting airplane ride or lazy afternoon on the back porch…The novel transports readers to another world, giving a solid dose of action-adventure and a kick-butt female protagonist. The Catch…is a great escape.” —Star-Telegram “The writer makes her protagonist more empathetic and likable than ever — startlingly so, because the Michael (her preferred name) Munroe we see here is at her most focused, ruthless and emotionally distant. It’s a difficult balancing act, but one that Stevens pulls off with her usual wit, precision and grace… [An] exceptional novel.” —Dallas Morning News“Think Catwoman in plain clothes. Lisbeth Salander sans dragon tattoo. Jack Reacher with an extra X-chromosome. Whatever—Vanessa Michael Munroe has to be among the cleverest, fightingest and all-around baddest heroines in contemporary suspense fiction. …A straight-up adventure tale about a woman who thinks on her feet (that is, when she is not using them to kick bad-guy booty) and always stays one step ahead of her adversaries. My prediction: This will be one of the summer’s most popular beach reads.” —BookPage"This writer is fabulous and the characterizations are thrilling... You get what you see, and that includes the cleverness, the grit, and the pain. A definite keeper!” —Suspense Magazine“Taylor Stevens continues her saga of Vanessa Michael Munroe, begun in The Informationist, with a fast-paced action thriller that vividly shows why Munroe is probably the best new action hero.” —Huntington News“Thriller fans will immediately be sucked into this life-or-death tale as Stevens’s fast-paced plot and indomitable and justice-driven heroine keep the pages turning.” —Library Journal “This action-adventure thriller moves along at breakneck speed with the requisite violence peppering most of the pages. Munroe is a smart, fiercely strong, yet damaged woman in the vein of Lisbeth Salander, and she could hold her own with Robert Ludlum’s Jason Bourne or Barry Eisler’s Rain. For fans of high-energy action.” —Booklist“Munroe makes for an intriguing action hero, and the fight scenes are refreshingly stark and well paced.” —Publishers Weekly“Stevens resurrects Vanessa “Michael” Munroe, her dangerous, androgynous antihero, for another dark adventure…Fans of the series like that Stevens’ writing takes them to little-known places and offers glimpses into the day-to-day life of the economically developing world. Stevens continues her spare, gritty approach to storytelling, which has made Munroe one of the genre’s most compelling characters, in this latest installment of the haunted heroine’s troubled life.” —KirkusFrom the Hardcover edition.
About the Author
TAYLOR STEVENS is the award-winning New York Times bestselling author of The Informationist, The Innocent and The Doll. Featuring Vanessa Michael Munroe, the series has received critical acclaim and the books are published in twenty languages. The Informationist has been optioned for film by James Cameron's production company, Lightstorm Entertainment. Born in New York State, and into the Children of God, raised in communes across the globe and denied an education beyond sixth grade, Stevens was in her twenties when she broke free to follow hope and a vague idea of what possibilities lay beyond. She now lives in Texas, and is at work on the next Munroe novel.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Don't Waste Your Time By Karen J. Kosmoski If I had not read Ms. Stevens first 2 books, I would have ditched this one after the 2nd chapter. Lots of talking, little action and I am 3/4 of the way through it. First of all, you have to wonder why Vanessa Michael Monroe is even involved in this plot. She has no vested interest, and it is unclear why she was even involved with this ship in the first place. Then, there is all the dialogue - ad nauseam, and very little action through most of the book. Quite a difference between this and book 1. Finally, the plot is dragging.Why some people have given this book 4 or 5 stars is beyond me. I would love to see this book reviewed by one of the major periodicals. This is not a very good book and probably my last Taylor Stevens read.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. INTELLIGENT AND EXCITING, WITH A HEROINE YOU CAN'T HELP BUT ADMIRE By David Keymer This is the fourth action thriller to feature Vanessa Michael Munroe, usually called Michael, and able to pass as a man or a woman with a change of clothing and a little makeup. Michael’s in Djibouti now and is pressed into serving as an armed guard on a cargo ship bound for Kenya. She neither trusts nor likes her boss, who nurses a grievance against her, and when she sneaks down and takes a look at what they’re carrying on the ship, she’s worried –the hull is loaded with contraband weapons. They are attacked by Pirates–someone tipped them off. There’s a fight and Michael escapes on a small boat with the wounded captain. They make it to the coast of Somalia but the captain is in bad shape. He needs hospitalization, so at least for a few days Michael has to hide out. While she’s hiding, she learns something disturbing: the pirates weren’t out for the ship –their real target was the captain—and they’re still looking for him. Michael’s a player in a very deadly game and she doesn’t even know why. Michael’s good at killing but she doesn’t do it lightly. Still, by the end of this intriguing story, a lot of blood has been spilled.Michael is part Jason Bourne and part Lisbeth Salander. Like them both, she’s a killing machine when she needs to be and like them, she has half-buried demons in her past. Like them too, she is very smart. She absorbs new languages almost by osmosis –two weeks in a country and she talks if not like a native, at least understandably. In this novel more than in the previous installment (The Doll), Stevens seems to draw on her own past: she was raised in a religious cult and shipped all over the world to beg for the cult; she escaped as an adult by moving to Africa where corruption was endemic and violence never far beneath the surface. “[I] lived a double life,” she writes. “Even as a child, I knew not to talk about what went on.”Michael, too, knows it is dangerous to expose herself. She has become, reluctantly, a chameleon. But this chameleon bites back.There’s a lot of action in this book but a lot of intelligence on display too.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. The Catch By Annie Michelle the catch ...4 starsI fell head over steel toes for Vanessa Michael Monroe with Author Taylor Steven's first book "The Informationist" and have been eagerly awaiting each new thriller since.The blurb for the first book was "Governments pay her, criminals fear her and nobody sees her coming" that sums her up perfectly and heck, what's not to love about that?This book was a little to technical for me, hence the only 4 stars, it felt kind of like I was playing GI Jane. To much techno/war/jargon and not enough Michael kicking ass! A huge bummer was her not beating Naton to a senseless pulp, not even at the end? What!?! Her getting beat almost to death in the beginning and not being able to function like usual, was a disappointment for us both! I do like the fact she is back in contact with Miles though and hopefully headed home.Vanessa Michael Munroe is tired. She is tired of running. She can't stop thinking about Miles Bradford so, she just keeps running. For the past 6 months Munroe has been in Djibouti Africa. Third world counties provide the background hum she needs to keep the demons away that roam in her head, demons from a sadistic and evil man that brutally interrupted her childhood, and made her who she has become. Death and destruction follow her everywhere, killing is who she is and what she does, a knife in her hand feels just like an extension of her body. She is androgynous being long, lean and depending on what the next job is, she becomes what ever sex she needs to be. She is a loner, keeps to herself, she has found that when she allows herself to love or be loved nothing good ever comes of it.Leo is her current boss, her job is as a linguist and a fixer. Leo has a new job for the crew, they will be transit guards on the freighter Favorita. Munroe wants nothing to do with this job but he gives her no choice, go with them or go home and she is not yet ready to go home. Once on the ship everything feels wrong to her. What is the real reason for this mission? Why is everyone acting suspicious? The hold has weapons stashed in it, which is not what she was told. They are attacked by pirates but even this feels wrong to her. She kills one of the pirates, hijacks his boat and gets to shore all the while wondering what is really going on with this boat the Favorita, with Leo and the crew? All Somali hijackings are financed business endeavors by venture capitalists, investors who buy shares in upcoming hijackings, making huge sums of money in the process. So who was financing the Somalis and why? With her usual predatory and direct approach she dives in head first trying to save the crew still on board the ship being held for ransom. She needs to get answers for their loved ones on land and try to make some sense out of this new and puzzling situation she has found herself in. will she finally be ready to go home after this? I have my fingers crossed!
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