The Recovery Agent, Janet Evanovich
The Recovery Agent, Janet Evanovich
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The Recovery Agent

Bestseller

Author: Janet Evanovich

Narrator: Lorelei King

Unabridged: 7 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/22/2022


Synopsis

#1 New York Times bestselling author and “thriller master” (Mystery and Suspense Magazine) Janet Evanovich returns with the launch of a “tense, suspenseful, funny, and wise” (Lee Child) series blending wild adventure, hugely appealing characters, and pitch-perfect humor.

Lost something? Gabriela Rose knows how to get it back. As a recovery agent, she’s hired by individuals and companies seeking lost treasures, stolen heirlooms, or missing assets. She’s reliable, cool under pressure, and well trained in weapons of all types. But Gabriela’s latest job isn’t for some bamboozled billionaire, it’s for her own family, whose home is going to be wiped off the map if they can’t come up with a lot of money fast.

Inspired by an old family legend, Gabriela sets off for the jungles of Peru in pursuit of the Ring of Solomon and the lost treasure of Lima. But this job comes with a huge problem attached to it—Gabriela’s ex-husband, Rafer. It’s Rafer who has the map that possibly points the way to the treasure, and he’s not about to let Gabriela find it without him.

Rafer is as relaxed as Gabriela is driven, and he has a lifetime’s experience getting under his ex-wife’s skin. But when they aren’t bickering about old times the two make a formidable team, and it’s going to take a team to defeat the vicious drug lord who has also been searching for the fabled ring. A drug lord who doesn’t mind leaving a large body count behind him to get it.

“A rollicking adventure and a great start to a new series” (Booklist, starred review), The Recovery Agent will have you clamoring for more and cheering for the unstoppable Gabriela Rose on every page.

About Janet Evanovich

Janet Evanovich was born Janet Schneider on April 22, 1943 in South River, New Jersey. She routinely appears on both the New York Times and Amazon Bestseller Lists and has a devoted following of readers. Using the pen name Steffie Hall, she published her several short romance novels. She later struck gold with her popular ‘Stephanie Plum’ Series – the twenty second book in the series, (‘Tricky Twenty Two’) will be released this November. After the third book in the series, Evanovich started running contests for her readers to suggest names for the next book. Each Plum book since that time has been named by a fan. The heroine, Stephanie Plum becomes a bounty hunter in her hometown of Trenton, New Jersey by bribing her pervert cousin Vinnie for a job after she is laid off as a lingerie buyer. Although there is plenty of romance and comedy in the books, they are primarily modern mysteries with an outrageous cast of secondary characters that add down to earth humor.

Evanovich became the first in her family to attend college. After graduating from South River High School she went on to attend Douglass College, part of Rutgers University. Janet Evanovich married her husband Pete in 1964. When she had her son, Peter and daughter, Alexandra, she decided to become a stay at home mom to raise her children. She first began writing in her thirties and had trouble publishing her first three manuscripts. Someone suggested she try writing romance novels. She had written two romance novels and still had not found anyone to publish them and became discouraged. She stopped writing and instead signed on with a temporary employment agency. After she worked there for several months, she received an offer to publish her second romance manuscript. She wrote and published multiple short romance novels before creating the world of Stephanie Plum. She has also written several other series, including the ‘Wicked’ Series, the ‘Alex Barnaby’ series, and the newer ‘Fox and O’Hare series featuring an FBI Agent and her partner, a notorious thief on the FBI’s Most Wanted List.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Melissa (Semi-hiatus for Work) on March 30, 2022

Think Indiana Jones meets Stephanie Plum, and you'll understand what The Recovery Agent is all about. We first met Gabriela (the title above adds an extra "L" which is not how it is spelled in the book) Rose in Fortune and Glory: Tantalizing Twenty-Seven--she is all about lost treasure, investigatin......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer ~ TarHeelReader on April 01, 2022

A new adventure begins! I’ve shared a few times in this space that Stephanie Plum books are my comfort reads. I can pick one up, smile, laugh, and know I’ll be in for an easy, satisfying read. When I saw that the author, Janet Evanovich, had invented a new character-driven series featuring Gabriela......more

Goodreads review by James on February 25, 2022

I've been an avid fan of Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series for almost two decades. Although the last few were showing signs of struggle, I eagerly anticipated the author's new series, Gabriella Rose. The Recovery Agent is its debut book, and while there are some similarities, it's also quite d......more

Goodreads review by Heidi on September 30, 2024

2.5 rounded up because there’s another fun grandma character!! As to be expected from an Evanovich book, there’s chaos, crazy villains, explosives, and great feature characters. However, unlike other series, it was super light on characterization. And lots of jumps from A to Z with no explanation, se......more

Goodreads review by Carrie on March 22, 2022

The Recovery Agent by Janet Evanovich is the first in a new adventurous mystery series Gabriela Rose. The story in The Recovery Agent is being compared to things like Indiana Jones or Romancing the Stone which is a fair comparison. Gabriela Rose is a recovery agent, someone that is hired to find lost......more


Quotes

"Fans of Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum series, also narrated by Lorelei King, will welcome this new series featuring recovery agent Gabriela Rose. Unlike Stephanie, Gabriela is highly competent, fearless, gunslinging, and a successful businesswoman. King’s voice for Gabriela conveys her strong, confident personality. To save her family’s hometown from ruin, Gabriela pursues an ancient treasure, a ring known as the Seal of Solomon. She reluctantly teams up with her ex-husband, Rafer. Listeners go on an action-packed, deadly quest across continents."