Bob Burke is back! Welcome to ‘American Sniper’ meets ‘The Godfather,’ Round #2, or Bob Lee Swagger takes on the New York City mob. It is another suspense action thriller from an author with over 500 Five-Star Kindle ratings on 8 Kindle E-Books. Last year’s “Burke’s War” has 4.5 stars on 181 reviews. Bob Burke is a former Army Ranger and Delta Force commander, and one of the quickest, most lethal … lethal forces of nature this country has ever created. When one of his old NCOs is thrown out the fifth story window of an Atlantic City casino run by the infamous Genovese and Lucchese mob families, someone’s going to answer, and payback’s gonna be a bitch! Slight of build and easy to dismiss, Burke shed his uniform and now runs a sophisticated telecommunications company. Often mistaken for ‘the telephone guy,’ he is a highly-decorated West Point ‘ring knocker,’ who spent four tours in Iraq and the rugged mountains of Afghanistan running ‘special ops’ missions. He and his men don’t take kindly to one of their own being murdered, but this time it won’t be a simple ‘Gumbah’ hunt with sniper rifles in a Chicago Forest preserve. The target is a Mafia Don holed up in the penthouse of a large hotel and casino complex in Atlantic City, backed by a dozen mob gunmen plus and an elite team of foreign Special Ops mercenaries he brought in to take down Bob Burke. While there’s always a place for a Barrett .50-caliber sniper rifle or two, in addition to his own Delta Force sergeants, Bob calls on two baby-faced computer Geeks, a three-star Army General, a Chicago homicide detective, a female Air Force Captain, a Russian computer programmer, and one of the world’s most renowned pickpockets, who is on an overnight.’ pass from Cook County Jail, and his own new wife. From stealth helicopters to luxury yachts, fishing trawler’s, and bodies in 55-gallon oil drums, the action is non-stop. But this time, Bob and his crew aren’t going to shoot it out with them in the woods, they’re going to take the Mob’s money, all of it!
If you like a good murder mystery suspense thriller, put this fast-moving Bob Burke series Delta Force action adventure novel into your Cart. It is another war and military best seller novel from the author of “Burke’s War,’ ‘The Undertaker,’ ‘Amongst My Enemies,’ ‘Thursday at Noon,’ “Aim True, My Brothers,’ ‘Winner Lose All,’ and ‘Cold War Trilogy’ three book boxed set. Enjoy!
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Burke’s Gamble (Burke’s War #2) – a review by Rosemary Kenny
(Bob) Burke’s War series reaches the second novel in William F. Brown’s epic saga, in Burke’s War.
From its start in Atlantic City, where inveterate gambler Vinnie loses over $100k to The Strip in Las Vegas, where he gambles away all but $7k of another $100k loan (traded on his Army veteran status), at which point, in desperation, he heads for Caesar’s.
Why does Vinnie phone Burke and what’s his answer?
What does Shaka Corliss want from Burke?
Who does Burke reach out to at Fort Bragg?
A non-stop, all-action thriller, starring Burke, Linda, Dorothy, Jimmy, Ace and the rest of the Team, as they take on traitorous ex-platoon members, swindling Dutchmen and murderous Mob members, Burke’s Gamble is a very apt title for another great William F. Brown, Bob Burke thriller.
Grab your copy as soon as possible and then lock and load for a rip-roaring romp that you’re guaranteed to enjoy!
Great story. Superb writing. Realistic dialogue and characters that keep you coming back for more. Burke, the protagonist, is a Special Operations killing machine, but he much prefers to punish the bad guys where it hurts if possible. The killing only happens when all else fails. Lots of action and thrills.
When his Sergeant,Vince, supposedly commits suicide at a gambling casino in Atlantic City when Burke is paying off his gambling debt something tells Burke “it ain’t kosher”. Burke see how he fell and realizes he was pushed, he did not fall. Then Vince’s girlfriend, Patty was attacked in their home. She was able to shoot and kill one of the attackers and wound another. Now Burke realizes it is not just the Atlantic City, New York and Philly Mobs but some other group is also involved.
The story has excitement, adventure and a group of characters you are bound to like. The author, William Brown has written a great series. This is my second book in the series that I’ve read and I intend to read the other two books.
I was fortunate enough to receive a review copy of the audio book of Burke’s Gamble, and having never read any of the Burke’s series I was a bit hesitant to listen to this second book without the background from Burke’s War. Well my hesitance lasted for about the first 10 minutes of listening and at that point I was hooked and not overly worried about what may have come before this book. Rest assured having ow experienced this action-packed thriller, I’ll be reading/listening to Burke’s War as soon as I can.
Being familiar wit Bill Brown’s writing style from reading/listening to some of his other series I knew his characters would be well developed, believable, and each would have some human flaw/failing. Yep Burke’s Gamble didn’t disappoint in this regard, in fact it didn’t disappoint this listener in any regard, it’s a homerun! The story line is tight, and the action is intense as well as non-stop. Bob Burke is a bad-ass, and I’m now a total fan of this series.