Catch a Ghost by SE Jakes

Catch a Ghost - S.E. Jakes

 

I really enjoyed this!  Talk about a couple of complicated and deep MCs!  Prophet and Tommy are all that and a bag of chips in all the best of ways.  And I'm still not quite sure exactly what happened between them!  *LOL*  To be honest, I think they're both still a little confused as well and I want to shake them both at times.  :)  

 

Catch a Ghost has a bit of a Tom Clancy/Larry Bond techno-thriller feel about it, with undercover operatives, missions, shadowy secondary characters - yes, Cillian, I'm looking at you - and guys so tough and stoic that they put Daniel Craig's James Bond to shame.  Often, when the main characters are so wonderfully drawn, the secondary characters suffer, but not in this case.  The afore-mentioned Cillian, Doc, Phil and even John are well fleshed out and different from each other.  

 

The plot is good, it's intricate, it doesn't give anything away and there's a logical progression of events, something that many so-called romantic thrillers aren't so great about.  There's humour, menace, violence (lots of violence), camaraderie and some very emotional moments.  Really good stuff, a nice, juicy story.  And the fight and torture scenes?  Real and alive on the page.  And the sex scenes?  Hot, steamy and intense.  Yes, there's romance, but it's sure not the hearts and flowers kind.  

 

I screamed at the end of the book, well, quietly and under my breath.  All I can say is thank God the sequel comes out in another two weeks!  So many questions were answered, but so many not.  This is the first in a series of adventures with Prophet and Tommy from what I understand and I am looking forward to reading them all.  :)