Review: A Nice Taste of the Nick Heller Character, Or Short Story to Catch Up With Him Again
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 18, 2012
Plan B is the third story involving the highly skilled, for hire mercenary/spy Nick Heller.  You don't need to have read 2009's Vanished or 2010's Buried Secrets to understand what is going on in Plan B.  Nor does Plan B give away the plots of either of those novels. You may simply just be more of a fan of Nick if you have done so, and thereby enjoy reading another adventure with him in it, but if you just want a free/cheap download short story to experience this character before investing in one of those prior adventures, Plan B does that well.  Plan B also comes with a bonus preview of the second book Buried Secrets, (bit odd choice if you're marketing a series you'd think you'd go with the first novel as the preview but then again I guess Buried Secrets may still have been on book shelves in physical book stores at the time of this Kindle release). The means this story may seem to end abruptly at the 60% mark on your Kindle device.  It is a decent ending as far as I'm concerned, it wraps up the part of the story we as readers have invested in and is how many stories in this genre, especially at a short story level end. Sure Finder could write a Plan C short story down the track, or even a full length novel but I would think that unlikely as it would give away the ending of this one.Plan B takes about 20 minutes of so to read.  Basically in this adventure, Nick has been hired to rescue the daughter of a tycoon from another tycoon who is holding her in his mansion in a house that has fortress like security and plenty of armed guards.  I think readers of this genre will pick up quickly the overall what is going on here part of the story, but I don't think this matters.  Like the other books Nick relies on outside help and a few coincidences, dicey odd occurrences to fall his way, for his plans to work but these are fiction tales after all.  Plan B is another enjoyable Nick Haller adventure.