Review: 2 stars
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 19, 2012
The Long Con from the blurb sounded like a delightfully wicked novel with Agent Bradley pulling an undercover job on a very dangerous criminal. Unfortunately, the novel became so convoluted with whom was conning whom that it lost some of its charm and mystery, as I kept trying to keep track of who was the good guy and who was the bad guy.Nathaniel Bradley is an agent with a organized task force in England. When his step-grandmother's priceless Faberge egg is stolen, he makes it his mission to recover it even if that means going to New York and posing as a prostitute for a gang of con artists who think they are selling a fake Faberge egg to known mobster, Anthony "Tony" Terranova. Bradley is the bait to lure Tony into their scheme, but both men have other secrets, ones that could place everyone in danger.I love a good undercover sting operation in a book and was hoping that Agent Bradley seducing Mafia guy Tony would be interesting. I think if that had just been the plot it could have worked, but when you threw in the gang of con artists, who didn't even know they had a real Faberge egg in their hands, the plot fell apart. Plus, who in their right mind would try and con a Mafia Don's son out of eight million dollars? That just did not make sense and could easily get you a pair of cement shoes. Add in Tony's secret job, his ex-girlfriend, the BDSM overtones - which did not work in this storyline in my estimation - and finally the Insta-Love connection and it seemed like every trope in a romance novel but the kitchen sink was used, and not very well.I really wish I could recommend this book as I love a good episode of Leverage or Remington Steele, but The Long Con was a huge disappointment all around.Dark Divas Reviews