Burn Notice: The Fix
by Tod Goldberg
Published by Obsidian Mystery
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Reviewed by Bob Pike CSP, CPAE
Fans of Burn Notice will be able to actually “hear” the voices of Michael, Sam, and Fiona in this book. Goldberg has done a great job of capturing the vocal mannerisms of the lead characters in the USA network series. Readers will enjoy Michael’s ongoing sidebars about spy tradecraft.
Michael is a spy who has gotten “burned.” Which means until he can figure out who and why, he is stuck in Miami with only his training to help him survive. All his assets and access have been frozen. Goldberg has Michael dealing with two challenges simultaneously in “The Fix.” A former nemesis now going by the name Mrs. Copeland has set Michael up to look like a drug dealer and is blackmailing him with exposure and arrest in order to get him to use his skills on her behalf.
Meanwhile Sam’s current girl friend, Veronica, has a widow friend, Cricket O’Connor, who is living on an estate on ultra-wealthy Fisher Island. Cricket has been scammed of all her wealth by Dixon Woods, a mysterious supposed mercenary/CIA agent whom she met through an online grief support group. They married after a whirlwind courtship and now he’s disappeared along with most of her money. She’s not only facing eviction, she has some small-time hoods muscling her for interest payments on money that Dix supposedly owes.
As Michael tries to solve both problems, he finds that they are interconnected. Along the way he and Sam break into a high-tech security/mercenary company, scam a real estate con man in order to get Cricket’s money back, and along with Fiona set up an elaborate con/fake raid on an upscale Miami Hotel in order to free Michael from Mrs. Copeland’s grasp.
Fast paced, this book will thrill “Burn Notice” fans and will make readers who haven’t seen the series want to tune in.
Armchair Interviews agrees.