Review: Mike Reardon and company rock
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 22, 2014
Just one great funny and super read.Mike Reardon, The Repairman, is contacted by a billionaire. One Prather Wedgworth. Well Wedgworth didn't call, his secretary called. She called about sixteen times.Reardon was still recovering from wounds received in Williston, ND. He was out of touch and recovering with an oh so lovely lady.Once he gets back and gets his messages. He contacts Wedgeworth.Seems Wedgworth's 50 million dollar Grumman G5 has disappeared along with the pilot and co-pilot. A pilot who turns out to be Wedgworths cousin. It was three days before the G5 was reported stolen. The co-pilot leaves a wife and two children behind. That fact is food for lots of thought as far as Reardon is concerned.Reardon also meets Hank Hausman. A Hausman who wants to beat the hell out of Wedgeworth. A Wedgworth who fired him as head of security after the plane was stolen. A Wedgworth who owes Hausman a bonus. A bonus that was owed a full two months before the plane disappeared.After a visit to Wedgeworths mansion, a visit where the price for recovery is ironed out,  Reardon starts thinking about getting his team together.  He also meets Wedgeworths AA and a young girl named Athena who turns out to be Wedgeworths daughter. A daughter who wants to speak with Mike. Mike puts her off and heads out.He also meets Penny Bartlett, wife of Tobias Bartlett, the missing co-pilot. Mike now knows something is up. Bartlett was described as a straight shooter. A guy who wouldn't have been a party to the theft of the G5.Reardon later meets Hausman again at the house of the missing pilot. A house loaded with mail. A house that no one has been in for quite some time.After Mike and Hausman dust it up a bit in that house Reardon hires Hausman as part of his team. Hausman is ex Delta Force and one capable guy. A guy who turns out to be one hell of an operator.Mikes pal Pax figures its in South America. Seems Wedgworths company, CalGeoCyber, did lots of business there. There were also lots of conflicts. Pax figures Paraguay is the place to start. And General Hector Maldonado is the person there to start with.So begins one really great read.This one has Mike Reardon, Skip Allen who's Reardon's 6'5" 250 pound former Marine Force Recon teammate,  Wedgworths AA Tatya, Carmen Fabriana Diaz who's Reardons go to person in Paraguay, Hank Hauseman, a missing co-pilot, Portia Wedgeworth the drunken wife, the daugher Athena,  Alverez and Madsen the pilots Reardon hires to fly the G5, a native taxi driver, jihadists that live in Paraguay, a G5 loaded with drugs, a shootout, an aquatic plane crash and Mike Reardon getting a load of mind blowing info from Wedgeworths daughter and one great ending..One damned fine read and well worth those five stars.