Here, we get to meet Ty’s family – who are almost as crazy as he is! – and the authors do a great job with the family dynamics. The plots are… not incidental exactly, but are secondary to the character and relationship development, and I suspect it’s that which is going to keep me coming back to them.
There are a number of holes and loose ends in the plot, but as I realised in Cut & Run, which suffers from the same thing – as well as being overly long – it’s the characters that are the key to these books.
The plan is that Ty, his father, Earl (who is also ex-military and a good friend of Ty’s boss, Richard Burns), and his brother, Deuce – who happens to be a psychiatrist – are going to hike a trail through the mountains for a few days, but… well, this is Ty and Zane, so of course things go wrong and they find themselves off-route and end up stumbling across a group of treasure hunters who are determined, at any cost, to keep people out of the way. Ty – who is like a kid on a sugar high at the best of times – is bouncing off the walls and eager to get back to work, so an enforced vacation isn’t exactly high on his wish list, but when his boss suggests – strongly – that he goes home to visit his family in West Virginia, and also makes clear he expects him to take Zane with him in order to try to help him sort himself out – Ty realises what’s at stake and wants to help.
But things aren’t going as well as they should, and Zane, in particular, is likely to fail his psychiatric evaluation, meaning his FBI career is in the balance. While our heroes have to face a number of suitably dangerous – and potentially life-threatening – situations, the storyline here is more character focused and the whole thing feels less ‘flabby’ than book one.Īfter a traumatic case from which they barely emerged with their lives, FBI agents Ty Grady and Zane Garrett are temporarily suspended from field work while they recover – physically and mentally. A Vintage Review – audiobook released 2010, review written 2018īook two in the Cut & Run series, Sticks & Stones is a slightly different animal to the previous book but was no less enjoyable.
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