7th in the Michael Bennett Series written by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
Burn may start with a not-so engaging beginning, but ultimately hooks a reader, and your Summer Thirst for a good thriller. Michael Bennett and family, return to NYC, after several long months, courtesy of Columbian drug czar, Manuel Perrine, and the FBI, (Gone, Michael Bennett #6). The good detective returns to find he has been reassigned to a Harlem Outreach Precinct, supervising a "misfit" squad of detectives. While in the process of a homicide investigation, of a burned corpse, an unknown crew is robbing high-end jewelry stores, in the Diamond District, making News headlines, until his Superiors reassign Bennett back to the Major Crimes Division. While he finds himself being pulled in these two different directions, across Manhattan, Bennett discovers his home front becomes unstable as his children's Nanny and part time love interest, Mary Catherine, must return to Ireland. Does Bennett BURN himself out as he struggles to solve several depraved homicides and the biggest heists to hit NYC ? The authors cleverly escalate the pace that makes this another page turning thriller, that you cannot put down.
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