Scorpion

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Summary: Action Packed Book!
Review: Bill Broxton is a DEA agent who has been assigned the duty of protecting the Prime Minister of Trinidad Ramsing.On a flight to
Trinidad a bomb goes off.During this crisis Broxton saves Maria
Lawson.He notices that she has a blackeye.This shiner has been
given to her by her husband Sheriff Earl Lawson.Broxton is also
flying to Trinidad to ask his childhood sweetheart Dani Street to marry him.
Unknown to him Dani is really the hired assassin "The Scorpion".Shen has been responsible for several paid killings on
a worldwide basis.
Maria informs her husband Sheriff Earl Lawson that she is not
coming home.Earl flies to Trinidad to find his wife.He winds up
being a joint assassin with the Scorpion,Dani Street.
Several attempts are made to kill Prime Minister Ramsing but
Broxton saves the Prime Minister each time.The sinister force behind the assassination attempts is Attorney General George
Chandee.He is on the payroll of the Salizar drug ring.
This is a very entertaining book.It is handled by Bootleg Press.I was very pleased with their product.This book will keep
you on the edge of youe seat.Buy it and read it.



Rating:
Summary: Simply a Fantastic, Wild Ride!
Review: "Scorpion" is about DEA agent Bill Broxton. His assignment, protect the Prime Minister of Trinidad against evil drug smugglers who are using that country to transfer their drugs to the United States. However the international assassin called the Scorpion has been hired to kill the PM and unknown to Agent Broxton the Scorpion is none other than the woman he loves. Fortunately for him, another woman enters her life, unfortunately for him, she is married to one really bad cop named Earl. Earl and the Scorpion team up and now there is nothing between them and the PM except a determined Bill Broxton. Oh, did I forget to mention that the PM doesn't want Broxton's help? Well, he doesn't, but he's getting it anyway in this book that I couldn't quit. Just simply a fantastic, wild ride.

Rating:
Summary: Good, but Could've Been Better
Review: Acton 5, Suspense 4, Characters 3, Plot 2, Originality 1. Add 'em up and divide by five and you get an average of 3, which is exactly how many stars I'm giving this book. Lots of action and the suspense might have been top notch if not for the poor plot and lack of originality. Basically you have your "Day of the Jackal" story, only the assassin is female. The fact that she was the girl our kind of bumbling hero was in love with is a nice touch, and I found myself liking both DEA agent Bill Broxton and his ex-girl friend assassin, but I didn't find myself caring very much whether or not the Prime Minister of Trinidad got assassinated or not. Now maybe if we were talking about the President of the United States and some kind of horrible international catastrophe, then maybe I'd've cared, but alas Mr. Stewart's portrayal of the P.M. of Trinidad didn't do anything for me at all.

I did, however, like the abrubt ending, mostly because it fooled me. A nice surprise that saved the book in my opinion. In fairness to Mr. Stewart, I've read his other solo effort "Hurricane" and liked it immensely. I also enjoyed his two tandem efforts, but sadly I found this one lacking.

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Summary: An Adventure That Kept Me Reading My Sunday Away
Review: Bill Broxton has been assigned to watch and protect Trinidad's Prime Minister Ramsingh from Columbian drug lords who want him dead. However Ramsingh prefers to rely on his Justice Minister and his department for his protection. Unknown to Ramsingh, said Justice Minister has hired the Scorpion, an international fugitive and assassin, to kill the prime minister. And unknown to Broxton, the girl he wants to marry is the Scorpion.

Fortunately for Broxton another woman comes into his life. Unfortunately for him the other woman's husband joins forces with the Scorpion in this action adventure that kept me reading away on a cold and rainy Sunday afternoon. Mr. Stewart has penned an adventure that you can't go wrong reading and his characters will live with you long after you've finished the book.

Reviewed by Judith Ann Cole

Rating:
Summary: A Thrilling Grabber
Review: Bill Broxton is a DEA agent with an impossible task. He's supposed to protect the prime minister of Trinidad from an assassin, who has been hired to kill him because he is clamping down on the drug lords that have been using his country as a vehicle to get their evil cargo into the United States. However he has two big problems. One, the PM doesn't want his help and two, the assassin happens to be Dani Stewart, the woman he wants to marry. He, of course, does not know this.

Dani is the daughter of the American Ambassador and she has been using her position to travel the world, killing for the highest bidder, but though she has a heart of steel, she has a soft spot for Broxton and doesn't want him hurt. Broxton convinces the prime minister to accept his help and Dani teams up with a rogue cop from America. Broxton and the PM go to Venezuela as the PM has to sign a treaty. Dani and her cop follow and what follows after that is an attempted assassination, a chase scene by car, then by sailboat, then another assassination attempt and so on till the thrilling climax.

This is a thriller, not much mystery here, but that was okay by me, because the book was a grabber, you know, it grabbed my attention, sucked me right in and held on for all three hundred and twenty-four pages. I will be looking for more books by Mr. Stewart in the future.

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Summary: She Gorgeous and She's Deadly. She's a Scorpion!
Review: DEA Agent Bill Broxton has been assigned to protect Prime Minister Ramsingh of Trinidad, because a Drug Cartel wants him killed. It seems Ramsingh has been cracking down on the cocaine trade that has been passing through his country enroute to the United States. Broxton knows that the cartel has sought the services of the international assassin known only as the Scorpion. What he doesn't know is that the Scorpion is a woman and not just any woman, but the daughter of the American Ambassador and the woman, whose finger he wants to put the engagement ring he's been carrying around.

An explosion on the plane sends Broxton and his charge on a harrowing ride, death looming large, but a skillful pilot manages to land jet safely and now Broxton knows just how serious the Scorpion is. However, also unknown to Broxton, Trinidad's Justice Minister is working with the Scorpion as he wants the PM's job and so Broxton's job is going to be all the more difficult.

The Scorpion strikes during a trip to Venezuela, where the PM had to go to sign a fishing treaty, but Broxton saves the day as he learns the awful truth about his lady love. However, he does not catch her, leaving her free to strike again, and still again in this thriller that kept me up till three in the AM. Mr. Stewart cost me a bit of sleep, but I enjoyed every minute of it, droopy eyes and all.

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Summary: The Girl of his Dreams is the Assassin of his Nightmares
Review: DEA Bill Broxton has been given a strange assignment. Protect the Prime Minister of Trinidad, a man who doesn't want his protection, against an assassin, know only as the Scorpion, hired by the Salizar drug cartel. The DEA is concerned for Prime Minister Ramsingh's safety, because he's been cracking down on the drug dealers, who have been using his country as a staging area to ship their product into the States. However, Ramsingh believes his own Justice Department can protect him. Besides, how would it look, him running to big Uncle Sam for help.

This job has an added bonus for Broxton as the American Ambassador to Trinidad, Warren Street, is his best friend. And Warren's daughter Danielle, ex-literary agent and Save the Children Spokeswomen, is the girl of Broxton's dreams. He is bringing an engagement ring to Trinidad.

But unknown to Broxton, Dani Street, the girl who has captured his heart, is the Scorpion. She has been using her job with Save the Children and her position as the Ambassador's daughter to get her close to those she's been hired to kill. And she will take out anyone who gets in her way, which is exactly where Bill Broxton has put himself.

This is an excellent thriller and the way Jack Stewart writes about the sea and sailboat action sort of reminds me of another British writer, Dick Frances and the way he writes about horse racing. It's clear Mr. Stewart knows his subject every bit as much as Mr. Francis does his. And like in a Dick Francis thriller, Mr. Stewart delivers non-stop action and gives us an ending to die for. I just loved this book. I was on tetherhooks with every pages.

Review submitted by Captain Katie Osborne

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Summary: This Book Stole Away A Very Long Plane Ride
Review: I read "Hurricane" a couple months ago, and since that was the second story about DEA agent Bill Broxton, I figured I already knew all I needed to know about him, so there was no point in going back and reading the first one. Boy was I ever wrong.

"Hurricane" was a darned good book, but much to my surprise, "Scorpion" was better. I bought them at the same time, and because I'd read the second one first, I just shelved "Scorpion" not bringing it out till I had to take a long plane ride to Madrid. First off, let me tell you this, you definitely don't want to be reading the first couple chapters as you're taxing down the runway on a jet plane. A bomb goes off, oxygen mask fall, yeah this isn't the kind of stuff you want to be soaking up when you are in the air. I'm not a big fan of flying anyway, so when those fictional masks fell, my eyes went upward, then I started checking out the other passengers. They were all so calm.

After I got past the harrowing plane ride and the eventual safe landing, I breathed a sigh of relieve, ordered a Bloody Mary from the flight attendant and went back to the story, where I stayed till we hit some turbulence. Whew, turbulence, I hate that. Then I went back to the book again, finishing it just as the captain turned on the "Fasten Seat Belts" sign for our landing in Madrid. The story stole my flight away and what a wonderful thing that was. It is just so much better to be chasing assassins, finding lovers and fighting bad guys, than it is to be cooped up in an aluminum tube, hurtling through the sky at six-hundred miles an hour.

I just loved this book.

Rating:
Summary: A Book I Couldn't Put Down!
Review: I've had this book sitting around for a while, but somehow it, and the sequel, HURRICANE, got put under a pile of books that my sister and I brought back from a library sale. A buck a back for paperbacks, that's a lot of books to be buried under. However, fortunately last week my boyfriend helped me put in some floor to ceiling bookshelves in the two car garage that I'd converted into library, so now all my books are organized and I have finally been able to read this excellent thriller by Jack Stewart. Of course, my car has to live on the street now, but you can't have everything.

DEA agent Bill Broxton has been given an impossible task, protect the Prime Minister of Trinidad from an assassin's bullet. Impossible, because Prime Minister Ramsingh doesn't want American protection. Protection he needs, because he is cracking down against the Salizar drug cartel in his country and the Salizars have been using Trinidad as a staging area to get their drugs into the United States. The American government has found out that the Salizars have hired the Scorpion, an international assassin, to finish off Ramsingh, but apparently the PM isn't that impressed. He believes his minister of justice can handle his security as well, if not better than the Americans. However, unknown to Ramsingh, Justice Minister Chandee is thick as thieves with the Salizars and is the man behind hiring the Scorpion, who is actually the daughter of the American Ambassador and also the woman Broxton loves.

And there you have the makings of a book that I just couldn't put down. Mr. Stewart had me from page one when the bomb went off in the plane. What a harrowing opening. I felt like I was right there on that wild and dangerous ride. I thought I'd faint when the oxygen masks came down. What a story, I can't wait to start HURRICANE. But hold on! I don't have to wait, I can start it right now. Oh, well, no sleep for Lenore this weekend.

Reviewed by Lenore Douglass

Rating:
Summary: The Love of His Life is an Assassin, Only He doesn't Know it
Review: Once again I have to declare my bias for a book because I know the author. Well at least this time it's not my husband, but a friend. But even if Jack Stewart and I weren't such good friends, I'd still give Scorpion five stars. It's a terrific adventure thriller that takes place in the Caribbean where I lived for ten years on a sailboat, so of course the book grabbed me right from the get go. This is Jack's first book, but certainly not the first thing that old pirate has ever written. He's an excellent short story writer and if you ever come across one of his self-published collections, you'll have a treasure, though the couple I've seen were pretty battered, having been passed along from cruising sailor to cruising sailor in the Caribbean. Anyway with my bias declared, let me get on with my report.

Bill Broxton grabs his seatbelt, cinches it tighter, as the sound of the explosion rips through the plane. Bomb is his first thought and bomb it was. He grabs the passing flight attendent, pulls her into his lap, wrestles her into the unoccupied seat next to his, helps her strap in. Then he turns toward the back of the first class section to see if Trinidad's Prime Minister Ramsingh is all right. Broxton is a DEA agent and he has been assigned the difficult job of keeping Ramsingh alive. Difficult, because Ramsingh doesn't want American help or protection in his war against the Colombian drug cartel that is flooding his country with their product, then reshipping it to the United States.

The Salazar drug cartel wants Ramsingh dead so badly, that they'll takeout a plane load of passengers along with him, if that's what they have to do to achieve their objective. However, fortunately for Ramsingh, Broxton and the rest of the passengers, the pilot is able to land the plane safely at Trinidad's Piarco Airport.

On arrival Broxton gets a cab to the American Ambassador's residence and he barely gets there with his life. Someone doesn't want him interfering. The Ambassador is an old friend and father of the girl he plans to marry. He tells the Ambassador that U.S. intelligence has found out that the international assassin known only as the Scorpion has targeted Ramsingh and that the prime minister has refused American help. It's a difficult job Broxton has, protecting someone who doesn't want protecting, and it's made all the more difficult because the Scorpion is none other than the Ambassador's daughter, the girl he loves.

SCORPION is a stay up all night thriller that I highly recommend. It's a fast, fun read and I'd say that even if I didn't know the author. As I said above, five stars from me for this one. I hope you try it and I hope you like it as much as I did.

Reviewed by Vesta Irene