Cost of Life by Joshua Corin

Author: Joshua Corin
Publisher: Alibi
Date of publication: March 2015

Happy Independence Day. You’re all going to die. 

Life can’t be better for veteran pilot Larry Walder. He has a great job, a terrific kid, a gorgeous wife—and no inkling that tonight will be the end of the world as he knows it. In the early hours before the Fourth of July, three men break into Larry’s home. And as the day lurches on to its terrifying course, a life is taken, and Flight 816 from Atlanta to Cozumel, Mexico, vanishes off the radar.

In the air, Larry must find a way to save his family, his crew, and his passengers. On the ground, disgraced FBI agent Xanadu Marx goes rogue, making it her mission to track down the missing flight before the hijackers reach their diabolical endgame. With the casualties racking up and the world’s busiest airport under lockdown, a message arrives: This is no ordinary hijacking, no typical hostage crisis. This ransom is a totally different beast—the first hint of a conspiracy that might bring America to its knees.

Cost of Life looked like an exciting and intriguing read.  An airline pilot awakens to find that his family has been kidnapped.  In order to save them, he must divert the plane he is scheduled to fly that morning to another location. He has no idea who they are or why they want the plane.  It sounds like it the plot of a great action movie, right?

For me, the book just didn't work. I got about halfway through and stopped reading.  It definitely wasn't a book that I would normally read or like.  A couple of things bothered me about it.  There is an ex-FBI agent who is an expert in linguistics is driven to the airport to see one of the terrorists by a dying teenager. That really wasn't a believable plot point for me.  I also felt like there were too many characters to keep track of up front.  I slowed the flow down for me.  But, when I finally got to what the terrorists were going to do with the hostages, I had to stop reading.  I just wasn't comfortable with the "game".

I'm not saying this is a bad read.  I just don't think it was for me.  But, if you would like to give it a try, there is a giveaway.  Enter and you could win a copy!

About the author:

Joshua Corin is the author of Nuclear Winter Wonderland, While Galileo Preys, andBefore Cain Strikes. He holds an M.A. in English and an M.A. in theater from Binghamton University, and currently teaches college in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Joshua Corin’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Monday, March 16th: Bell, Book & Candle

Wednesday, March 18th: She Treads Softly

Monday, March 23rd: Vic’s Media Room

Thursday, March 26th: Annabel and Alice

Wednesday, April 1st: From the TBR Pile

Wednesday, April 1st: Buried Under Books

Monday, April 6th: Reading to Distraction

Tuesday, April 7th: Queen of All She Reads

Thursday, April 9th: It’s a Mad Mad World

Monday, April 13th: Life is Story

Tuesday, April 14th: Drey’s Library

Thursday, April 16th: Mom in Love with Fiction

Monday, April 20th: FictionZeal

Wednesday, April 22nd: Psychotic State Book Reviews

Saturday, April 25th: Brooke Blogs

While Galileo Preys

By:  Joshua Corin

Summary:  IF THERE WERE A GOD, HE WOULD HAVE STOPPED ME.

That the message discovered atop an elementary school in downtown Atlanta. Across the street, the bodies of fourteen innocent men and women, each quickly and cleanly murdered. The sniper Galileo is on the loose. He can end a human life from hundreds of yards away. And he has just begun.

Where others see puzzles, Esme Stuart sees patterns, and these outside-the-box inductive skills made her one of the FBI's top field operatives. When she worked for the Bureau. But she turned her back on that dark abyss eight years ago to start a family and live a normal life. She now has a husband and a daughter and a Long Island house to call her own.

But as Galileo's murders escalate, her beleaguered old boss needs the help of his former protégé. But is Esme willing to jeopardize her new perfect life - which she has certainly earned...

The whole time I was reaing this book I was thinking it would make an excellent movie.  A kind of violent and bloody movie, but a really intriguing movie regardless.  It was jam packed with all kinds of action.  It was a really cool story with a scary twist at the end.

I really liked the characters in this book.  I thought Tom was really interesting.  If Clint Eastwood was about 20 years younger I think he would be perfect for the role.  I could see him throwing on a leather jacket and climbing on a motorcycle!  As a working mom, I really felt for Esme being so torn between the two things she felt like she should be doing.

This book is being published Sept 1.  I'd definitely recommend it if you like murder mysteries, political mysteries, serial killer mysteries, anything along those lines. 

**I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest exchange which I have provided.  I was not compensated in any other way.**