The Innocent Ryan Lock #5 A Ryan Lock Crime Thriller eBook Sean Black
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The series that's perfect for fans of Robert Crais, Harlan Coben, Gregg Hurwitz, Lee Child and James Patterson's Private series.
"It's not the crime that kills you – it's the cover-up."
When college basketball coach Malik Shaw goes missing after a family tragedy, it looks like just another retired athlete gone off the rails. But Malik's childhood friend, private security specialist Ty Johnson, quickly begins to suspect that there is more to it.
Chasing the truth, Ty, along with his business partner, Ryan Lock, begin to uncover a sinister conspiracy of silence in a sleepy Minnesota college town.
"Sean Black writes like a punch to the gut." – Jesse Kellerman
"The heir apparent to Lee Child." – Ken Bruen
The Innocent Ryan Lock #5 A Ryan Lock Crime Thriller eBook Sean Black
If it weren't for numerous plot holes the size of Texas this could have been a good book. Sean Black writes well and every scene builds the tension higher. But one far-fetched improbability follows the next and it becomes hard to take it all seriously.Malik Shaw, a former star basketball pro, is the coach of a winning college basketball team when he uncovers a pedophile conspiracy. He takes it to the college chancellor, Allan Laird, and that's when total mayhem breaks loose. Before long the body count makes Helmand Province look tame. And that's the fundamental problem here. Everything is overblown and the killing drones are just too bloodthirsty.
I really liked the author's choice of two black men as lead characters. Malik's childhood buddy, Ty Johnson, is an ex-Marine now working in close protection for the rich and famous. Neither is in any way ethnic and they don't speak Ebonics. If you're white and uncomfortable with blacks, by the end of the book your prejudices will have been overcome after rooting for a pair of black dudes.
Ty's partner in the security business, Ryan Lock, is white but does not play a key role in unlocking the investigation. It's like Crockett and Tubbs with Ty in the driving seat. If more time had been spent drawing Lock and Johnson's characters I could see this pairing making a hit on the crime series circuit.
I'm fussy about action scenes (see some of my other reviews here on Amazon) and these were well-scripted, even if the final scene was totally over the top, and Daniel's marksmanship with a paintball gun over a distance of a hundred metres or more beyond credibility.
Pedophilia is more widespread than most realize and this book is a call not to shrug off obvious signs of impropriety.
As I said, Sean Black writes with great talent and I'm upset that he chose to waste it on this scratchy plot.
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The Innocent Ryan Lock #5 A Ryan Lock Crime Thriller eBook Sean Black Reviews
Interesting book if you can overlook the lack of some rudimentary facts as others have pointed out, such as facts about college basketball. I enjoyed the plot, twists and storyline immensely and recommend it as a thriller not to be dismissed. Since Malik Shaw is a black man as is his best friend since childhood, Ty Johnson, partner of Ryan Lock, the story gets into a little bit about racial problems but not enough to make it the storyline itself. Malik is the College Basketball coach who discovers a major scandal that he can't in all good conscience let slide and it costs him his own family. He becomes immediately the primary suspect for murdering his wife and children that he dearly loved. Ryan and Ty come rushing to wintry Minnesota to
do what they can to help. Great action, twists galore. I enjoyed it, you will too!
The writer loses all credibility from the beginning since the major character is a college basketball coach. However, the author doesn't have even a rudimentary grasp of college basketball.
Examples
1. College games consist of two HALVES, not four QUARTERS.
2. His team goes into its final game with a record of 11 and 2. College teams play around a 30 game schedule.
3. He refers throughout the book to the "stadium." Basketball games are played in arenas, field houses, sometimes gymnasiums, but not in "stadiums."
Surely some fact checker or editor should have picked up these glaring errors.
In addition, there was a convoluted plot, a confusing array of too many characters who were poorly developed, and a not very satisfying conclusion.
(Spoilers ahead.)
Mr. Black has the kernel of a good story here, and his narrative writing is solid, but the story's structure deflates its depth and impact. He tells it pretty much sequentially, so that, by the time the heroes of the series arrive on the scene, the reader already knows most of the twists and turns.
For me, it would have been far more satisfying to open with Lock and Johnson arriving at the story's location having had only a phone call seeking their help, and find their client on the run and his family murdered (a la Hammett's RED HARVEST). Then, they'd sort it all out from there, navigating a gauntlet of lies, unreliable sources, frightened witnesses, threats, and attacks as they piece the back story together and bring the culprits to (street) justice. This would be a story that arced to its natural conclusion, with the abusive, murdering scoundrels exposed and snuffed, and those who covered up their misdeeds brought low, instead of grafting on yet another villain to keep the story going (anticlimactically, despite a big, bloody set piece at the end).
It's as though I began one story and was hijacked into another, less interesting one. This new villain, in fact, probably should have remained a somewhat sympathetic (though deranged) ally, remaining in the background throughout, mostly hidden, and playing the same pivotal role by saving one of the principals, only near the end of the story instead of in the middle. I certainly believed that a victim such as him could end up doing the things he did, but his bloody deeds should have been contained within the primary story as Lock sorted out the original culprits. If his actions took him a bit past redeemable, I would have sacrificed him with a stray bullet from the bad guys--or, poignantly, his cop sister--not Lock.
Even in the given sequential structure there were unforced errors. I couldn't see why the sister of the aforementioned secondary villain, in a contrived, unnecessary scene with him, spilled out their back story as one long, slightly tedious remembrance, when, in the very next sequence Lock would confront her with her secret. The give and take of her confession was the obvious and natural place to tell their sad childhood story.
I sensed a good writer going it alone here without an editor to act as muse, challenging him to structure and revise a decent story into something tight and compelling. But I'll definitely read another.
If it weren't for numerous plot holes the size of Texas this could have been a good book. Sean Black writes well and every scene builds the tension higher. But one far-fetched improbability follows the next and it becomes hard to take it all seriously.
Malik Shaw, a former star basketball pro, is the coach of a winning college basketball team when he uncovers a pedophile conspiracy. He takes it to the college chancellor, Allan Laird, and that's when total mayhem breaks loose. Before long the body count makes Helmand Province look tame. And that's the fundamental problem here. Everything is overblown and the killing drones are just too bloodthirsty.
I really liked the author's choice of two black men as lead characters. Malik's childhood buddy, Ty Johnson, is an ex-Marine now working in close protection for the rich and famous. Neither is in any way ethnic and they don't speak Ebonics. If you're white and uncomfortable with blacks, by the end of the book your prejudices will have been overcome after rooting for a pair of black dudes.
Ty's partner in the security business, Ryan Lock, is white but does not play a key role in unlocking the investigation. It's like Crockett and Tubbs with Ty in the driving seat. If more time had been spent drawing Lock and Johnson's characters I could see this pairing making a hit on the crime series circuit.
I'm fussy about action scenes (see some of my other reviews here on ) and these were well-scripted, even if the final scene was totally over the top, and Daniel's marksmanship with a paintball gun over a distance of a hundred metres or more beyond credibility.
Pedophilia is more widespread than most realize and this book is a call not to shrug off obvious signs of impropriety.
As I said, Sean Black writes with great talent and I'm upset that he chose to waste it on this scratchy plot.
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