Rip Crew, Sebastian Rotella
Rip Crew, Sebastian Rotella
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Rip Crew

Author: Sebastian Rotella

Narrator: Sebastian Rotella

Unabridged: 8 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/13/2018

Synopsis

In this "taut, tense international thriller" (Alafair Burke), streetwise U.S. agent Valentine Pescatore investigates a brutal killing that reveals a vast conspiracy of wealth and power. One of Kirkus Reviews's Best Mysteries of the Year!

Valentine Pescatore, the globetrotting former Border Patrol agent, finds himself back on American soil investigating the merciless killing of a group of women in a motel room. At first, the crime seems to be a straightforward case of gangsters battling for territory. Soon, however, the motive is revealed to be much deeper and more sinister: a single witness who knows too much is being hunted, at any cost.

From an author who has been praised for his "pounding action scenes [and] ferocious prose style" (Marilyn Stasio, NYTBR), Rip Crew races at breakneck speed as Pescatore finds himself face-to-face with his most terrifying assignment yet.

About Sebastian Rotella

Sebastian Rotella is the author of The Convert’s Song and Triple Crossing, which the New York Times Book Review named its favorite debut crime novel of 2011, as well as the nonfiction book Twilight on the Line. He is a senior reporter covering international security issues for ProPublica, a newsroom dedicated to investigative journalism in the public interest. He worked for twenty-three years for the Los Angeles Times, serving as bureau chief in Paris and Buenos Aires. His honors include a Peabody Award, Columbia University’s Dart Award and Moors Cabot Prize for Latin American coverage, the German Marshall Fund’s Weitz Prize for reporting in Europe, five Overseas Press Club Awards, The Urbino Prize of Italy, and an Emmy nomination. He was a Pulitzer finalist for international reporting in 2006.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Steve on April 03, 2018

If you have a book with a hero named Valentine Pescatore, you know you've either got a stinker or a hit. "Rip Crew" is a hit - its author exactly how to race a narrative at full speed! Here's my review: [URL not allowed]-le.........more

Goodreads review by Lou on March 16, 2018

U.S. Border Patrol Department of Homeland Security contract investigator off-the-books assignment Tecate motel ten women shot execution-style special interest aliens Blake Acquisitions Group Mexico Southern California Guatemala Italy Cartels Mafias Smugglers Rip crew We are dealing with fall guys and top guys, crew......more

Goodreads review by Aristotle on March 06, 2018

Hunger is a powerful thing. Human trafficking a multi-billion dollar criminal industry. The desperate, the criminals who exploit them, and the good that tries to help them. A good character driven read. Valentine Pescatore is hired to investigate the murder of 10 women, illegal immigrants, that were be......more

Goodreads review by Dlmrose on January 26, 2019

3+......more

Goodreads review by John on July 30, 2018

Rip Crew Mysterious Book Report No. 345 by John Dwaine McKenna With all the rama-lamadingdonging that’s been going on over, under, through, around and about the southern border of our nation this MBR couldn’t be more timely. Rip Crew, (Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company, $27.00, 322 pages, ISBN......more

Quotes

"Rip Crew is a taut, tense international thriller, filled with complex characters and gritty dialogue. Utterly riveting."—Alafair Burke, New York Times bestselling author of The Wife

"This latest installment in a series including Triple Crossing and The Convert's Song is about as tightly woven and rock-solid as international thrillers get. Rotella is as good at setting up action scenes as he is at springing them (which is saying something: the shootouts are terrific). The crisp dialogue feeds the sculpted plot and vice versa. There is nary a wasted moment in the book or one in which Rotella isn't in complete command. . . . Rotella's latest is a tense, gritty thriller-perfectly seedy when it needs to be and near-perfect in its overall execution."—Kirkus Reviews (starred)

"Gritty dialog rings convincingly with authenticity as Rotella playfully inspects multiple layers of meaning inherent in dialects, news stories, and eyewitness accounts. For fans of tough crime fiction in the tradition of T. Jefferson Parker."—Library Journal (starred)

"What a setup! It's heartrending, violent, and intriguing...readers will hang on for the revelation and the mighty clash at the end."—Don Crinklaw, Booklist

"Rotella writes convincingly about the realities and mechanics of investigative journalism, and his detailed action scenes add just enough mayhem to keep thriller readers on the edge of their seats."—Publishers Weekly

"Gritty dialog rings convincingly with authenticity as Rotella playfully inspects multiple layers of meaning inherent in dialects, news stories, and eyewitness accounts. For fans of tough crime fiction in the tradition of T. Jefferson Parker."—Library Journal

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