Review: Great book
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 5, 2014
A Touch of Malice by Gary Ponzo is book 4 in the Nick Bacco series.  This was not my favorite of the series but it was good.  It was a little more unrealistic especially the part with the President going to Colombia.Trent Merrick is a documentary film maker who is in Colombia to document an Indian tribe who is being forced out of its land by drug lords wanting to use their land to grow their crops.  While he is there, he runs across a meeting between the President of Colombia and a drug cartel leader. It shows the President on his knees kissing the hand of the drug lord.  He is captured but not before he sends the picture to his brother, President Merrick of the United States.President Merrick immediately wants Nick Bracco and Matt McColm to head a team to go in and get his brother.  He doesn’t believe those who hold him will ask for ransom and it is not his style to pay ransom although he might give in this time.Nick and Matt agree and leave for Florida to meet up with their team.  Nick contacts his cousin Tommy and he joins the team in information gathering.  Tommy also gets the best man to lead them into the Amazon- Anton Kalinikov. Anton was the Russian who was to kill Nick and Matt but in reality helped them. Now they are working together.While they are trying to get into the Amazon and find Trent, the President, against his advisors wishes, goes to Colombia to talk to the President and hopefully gain some help in locating Trent.What will happen?  Will they get to Trent before he dies? What will the President do while he is in Colombia?