The Random Affair: The UrbanKnights Book 1 by James Roby
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
The Random Affair (Urban Knights #1) is the first entry in James H Roby’s detective thriller series and resolves around ex-Navy intelligence operative turned PI Jordan Noble as he tries to track down Cody Random, a genius chemist whose brother Jordan killed years prior. Random is out for revenge as he tries to complete the creation of Crush, a new super addictive drug with cocaine as its base.
Over the course of trying to find and stop Random, Jordan reconnects with Robin Summers, his first love, who’s now involved with a small-time drug dealer.
Let me start by saying this isn’t the type of book I usually read, but I’m glad I picked it up. The action scenes were crisp and vivid, and the plot moved along at a good clip. Though as mysteries goes this was light on actual sleuthing and relied more on hacking/wire taps to advance the plot.
I found Jordan and the other characters surprisingly complex for an action/thriller novel, and while I didn’t agree with all their actions, I understood why they did certain things like not involving the police or CIA.
My main issue with the book is its formatting; apparently the author sent the printers the eBook file because there were no page numbers, and it had a little black box at the end of each chapter, which I take was supposed to be a chapter break.
Also, there many instances of head hopping, but not to the point it made the book unreadable. All around, this book could have used another round of editing and had it been more polished it would be a solid 5.0.
I’m definitely going to read the next book in the series and recommend you read this one if you like action thrillers like Jason Bourne and XXX.
I give The Random Affair 4.0 out of 5.0 stars.
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