Review: Getting better with each book!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 24, 2013
I read the first two Charlie Fox books (Killer Instinct and Riot Act) last year.  They were acceptable stories, but not something I'd push into someone else's hands.  Good enough to (eventually) get me to read the third book (Hard Knocks) last week, and it was better than the first two, enough so for me to start this fourth book (First Drop) right away.  IT was a big step up and an excellent read.  Not 5 stars for me, but very close.  The story pushes right along (the earlier ones seemed to 'plod' at times, to me), and the character development seemed to be more gripping.  You could start with this one and not miss much, but you will miss some of the back story and the slow building of Charlie's career path if you don't read the first three first.  I'll definitely be reading more Charlie Fox in the (very near) future![Charlie Fox is an ex-British "special forces" who got kicked out, due to a frame-up, and who (over the course of the first four books) has drifted into "close up" bodyguard work.  "First Drop" finds Charlie in the U.S. for the first time, watching over a teenaged boy who doesn't appreciate it but certainly needs it.  Someone seems to want the boy dead, but who?  And why?  And can they survive?]