Review: "Three Strikes, He's Out"
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 04 16, 2014
I sure didn't know what I was getting into when I started reading this story!  At first, I found it very humorous.  Dr. Gideon Box, cardiothoracic/cardiopulmonary pediatric surgeon, 40 years old, considers himself the best in the world.  Trudy Lake, a Kentucky country girl, 21 years old, father on trial for drug trafficking and first degree murder and who tried to hang Dr. Box; her sister also tried to kill Dr. Box, who would have been her fifth murder victim. Did Dr. Box say that Trudy came with some family baggage?  Trudy comes to Manhattan and lives with Dr. Box in his penthouse condo on Columbus Circle, getting paid $10,000 per month for two years.  And, as far as Trudy's baggage, well, it's enough to fill two duffle bags! Bruce Luce, hospital administrator, interrupts a potential love-fest between Gideon and Trudy, reminding Gideon of their audition/interview with TV hostess Jane Fain.  While Jane detests the idea of using Gideon as an enticement of women followers, she refers him to another morning show host.  That turns into a fiasco and he and Trudy run off the set while Gideon takes a call from Donovan Creed, an assassin.  Creed's daughter has been pronounced brain dead and he wants Dr. Box to go to Sensory Medical facility to restore his daughter's brain function! And then there is the private fundraiser dinner where Trudy Lake has taken all the BS from the high and mighty hostess and gives her a picture perfect right cross and the hostess drops on her a.., I mean backside!  Again, Dr. Box and Trudy race away from a very, very embarrassing scenic view of the hostess! It's not too further into this story when actions get a little too obscene for my taste.  I stopped reading at 35 percent.  It's too vulgar for me ... especially when I think the author is getting too much of a kick out of his witty writing ideas.  Sorry ... I guess it's time to give up reading anything else from this author.  I didn't read his "Casting Call" and "Teacher, Teacher" based on the reviews from previous fans.  I did read and review "Promise You Won't Tell," a Private Investigator Dani Ripper novel which I liked very much.  But his most current novels are a totally different experience.