The Job: A Fox and O'Hare Novel (Fox & O'Hare, #3)

by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

He’s a charming con man and she’s a dedicated FBI agent, and they’re about to drive each other crazy . . . again!
 
The FBI had one demand when they secretly teamed up Special Agent Kate O’Hare with charming con man Nicolas Fox—bring down the world’s most-wanted and untouchable felons. This time it’s the brutal leader of a global drug-smuggling empire.  The FBI doesn’t know what their target looks like, where he is, or how to find him, but Nick Fox has a few tricks up his sleeve to roust this particular Knipschildt chocolate–loving drug lord.
 
From the streets of Nashville to the back alleys of Lisbon, from the rooftops of Istanbul to the middle of the Thames, Nick and Kate chase their mark. When they find themselves pitted against a psychopathic bodyguard and a Portuguese enforcer who gets advice from a pickled head, they decide it’s time to enlist some special talent—talent like a machete-wielding Somali pirate, a self-absorbed actor, an Oscar-winning special effects artist, and Kate’s father Jake, a retired Special Forces operative. Together they could help make this Fox and O’Hare’s biggest win yet . . . if they survive.

Praise for The Job
 
“This suspense series continues to mix the humor from [Janet] Evanovich and [Lee] Goldberg’s books with the intricate cons seen in the best episodes of Mission: Impossible. The banter and thrills are nonstop, and readers will be anxious to see what happens next.”—Library Journal
 
“Even if you can’t always tell the good guys from the bad guys, there’s no doubt who’ll come out on top when the Fox is in the hen house.”—Kirkus Reviews

• ISBN10: 0345543122
• ISBN13: 9780345543127
• Publish Date: 18 November 2014 (first published 1 January 2014)
• Publish Status: Out of Stock
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Random House USA Inc
• Imprint: Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, Inc
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 304
• Language: English
• URL: https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780345543127

Reviews

[Baroness Book Trove]

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Hi my loyal people. Here is a new book review brought to you by me! I finished another book but I am proud to say to all of you that the reason it took so long was for a good reason. As you can see I have changed my blog site from Blogger to WordPress which I am great to say is finally up and working. I hope that you all like it better now. Anyways back to the reason for this blog post!

Nick Fox and Kate O’Hare are back with an awesome book. This on, in my opinion, is one of the best books with Nick and Kate in them. These two are like the most dynamic duo that I love to read and watch on the television in shows or in the movies. We have an FBI Agent who has to be teamed up with Nick Fox while letting everyone think that she is out looking for him, because she is the only one that can catch him, but in reality is working with him for the FBI. I mean it’s pretty awesome and something that you don’t get to see every day.

Plus the two of them are hilarious together. I mean we have the humor of the two of them together plus the sexual frustration that they both give each other and it just makes it into an awesome book.

So in this one Kate and Nick catch at least two baddies, well unintentionally, as the first one was trying to get Nick’s attention and not the FBI’s. I also love the fact that no matter what we always, mostly, see the same team members they hire to help with the cons along with having Kate’s dad. Though I am starting to think that maybe Kate’s dad and Nick have been talking to each other secretly since they almost always agree on everything.

I am giving this book five butterflies rating since it’s soo funny and kept me guessing and the whole time I was working on my new blog site with my mom I couldn’t help but think “What is going on with Nick and Kate in this book?” Or my favorite “What type of con is Nick going to pull for this one”. I always end up thinking of these things whenever I read a Fox and O’Hare novel because of the fact that these two are so funny and so good at keeping me on my toes. And sometimes making me wonder if the con will actually work and that they will get the bad guy that they are after.

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I'm a big Stephanie Plum fan, and I was also a devoted Monk watcher when the show was airing, so Evanovich and Goldberg teaming up was very appealing to me. I was expecting Evanovich's snappy flirty dialogue (which I got) and Goldberg's mystery and flair for action (which I also got), but somehow the combination didn't quite work as well as I was hoping.

The scenes between Kate and Nick were a lot of fun and very reminiscent of Stephanie and Morelli from the earlier books in the Stephanie Plum series, I just wish there had been more of that interaction throughout the book. That's not to knock the action/suspense plot, it's good too. I liked the motley crew of characters who Kate and Nick enlist to carry out their big con to snare a drug lord (it was very Ocean's Eleven), and the pace never slowed.

I guess my issue came down to medium. I think I would have LOVED seeing this story as a TV show or even a movie, because in a lot of ways it read like a screenplay. The writing was very straightforward and almost plain. When Kate was fighting or dodging bullets, the writing didn't exactly bring the scene to life. Lots of cool things happen, and again, Evanovich's dialogue was great fun, but there wasn't enough here to make me want to dive into this series like I continue to do with her Stephanie Plum series.

But if a TV show or movie is in the works, I'm sold.