Donald Bain is one of my favorite writers. He's penned most of the Murder She Wrote mystery series, and many of the "Margaret Truman mysteries." He also wrote several books under his own name and I just enjoyed one called "Lights Out" published in 2014. As the promo said, it's a bold money-making scheme that spins wildly out of control in this absorbing thriller!
Sadly, Donald Bain passed away a couple of years ago, but the books he left behind are all brilliant. I love his style of writing short, pointed chapters. That will always grab me in reading a book. In short, this book will grab you from the start and make you like the main character Carlton Smythe, and as he makes bad decisions, you cringe, but the author is brilliant in making the reader continue to be somewhat sympathetic. The end totally surprised me. 5 of 5 stars!!
ABOUT THE BOOK: Five major blackouts have paralyzed the USA since the late 1950s. The sixth will occur in a few months' time.
At the age of fifty-three, married Canadian engineer Carlton Smythe meets a mysterious woman in a Buenos Aires bar - and falls head over heels in love for the first time in his life. Desperate to find the funds to escape his loveless marriage to Cynthia and embark on a new life in Argentina with the beautiful Gina Ellanado, Smythe devises an audacious money-making scheme, brilliant in its simplicity and boldness. But to pull it off, he will need to do business with some wholly undesirable criminal elements, including reputed local Mafia boss Dominick Martone and some USA counterparts. And that's when things start to spin wildly out of control.
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