Review: Pretty darned good
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 23, 2014
This is the first of the Leopold Blake books I've read and I was  very impressed with it.This one starts with an assassin. An Assassin who will kill many people before its all said and done. He's very, very good at killing.Billionaire Leopold Blake is in Paris  at the Louvre. Besides being a billionaire who doesn't have to work he's a consultant. He loves being a consultant and he's been hired by the museum to check out their security measures.The first thing Blake notices is that a masterpeice by Da Vinci is a fake. He notified the museum curator, Dubois.Of course Dubois thinks he's crazy as its been decades since a theft of any kind has occured at the Louvre. He does, however, leave Blake to question the staff. He himself has a lunch date. A lunch date where his life will end.The assassin kills, cleans up after himself and leave a finger print at the scene. Leopold Blakes fingerprint.So begins one damned fine read.This one has Leopold Blake, his gal pal NYPD Sgt, Mary Jordan, his bodyguard Jerome, a girl named Sophie, another bodyguard named Gerard, a strange ship at sea the Thanatos, hidden agendas, a plot to remove Blake, murder, attempted murder, an escape from jail, the police force of Paris on their trail, a Police Captain named Rousseau, Blakes supposedly dead Father, a Father who has no problem killing anyone he deems as a threat and one hell of a story with a great ending.Five Stars and then some.