Black Tiger: 6

by Robert Brace

Book Overview

It was pure luck that Lysander Dalton got up to use the bathroom seconds before someone shot his bed full of bullets. And it's pure chemistry when the ex-special ops Marine meets Valentina Mariposa. She's a sexy lawyer who will double as Dalton's bodyguard and hired gun in the search for the terrifying truth behind his bullet-riddled bed.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425201198
• ISBN13: 9780425201190
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Berkley Books
• Length: 323 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.3" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

High Octane Excitement

This book ramps up the action right from the start, and the pace never lets up. Lysander Dalton is a Virginia winemaker, a man with a checkered past who has retreated from the world into his vineyard, basically wanting nothing more than to be left alone. It is not to be: the past catches up with him, with extreme violence. He teams up with a long-legged, Porsche-driving, thigh-holster wearing lawyer by the name of the Valentina Mariposa, and together they investigate and unravel the mystery. Sophisticated and ironic as well as a real page-turner, to my sense this is much better than the average thriller. Highly recommneded.

Great first book in the series!

I read Black Tiger after reading Iron Butterfly (second in the series). Both of them are outstanding, but I would recommend starting with Black Tiger, as that will make the second one even more enjoyable. These books remind me a lot of Lee Child's Jack Reacher series, with a dash of Robert Parker's Spenser thrown in (Lysander Dalton is more sophisticated than Reacher, and has a better sense of humor, but he is equally resolute). The series is also notable for the capable female characters. In most thrillers the women end up having to be rescued, but in this series they can mostly look after themselves. Like Iron Butterfly, Black Tiger's story builds up from a relatively minor and unexplained incident (in this case a home intrusion) into a big complex story (a violent conspiracy which has threads leading back to Dalton's past as a Marine officer). There are many incidents and problems to solve along the way. Black Tiger is densely packed with action, the pace of which never lets up. Highly recommended. I would like to know when the next one is coming out.

Action Packed Thriller!

I didn't know what to expect when I bought this book.This turned out to be an exciting book.The hero in this book is Lysander Dalton.He is a former Marine Corps Special Forces officer.He had been expelled for striking a junior officer and was court martialed and sentenced to Leavenworth.He was kicked out of the Marines and stripped of his rank. After getting out of prison he purchased a farm where he grows grapes that are made into wine.He at last has his privacy.One night he gets up to go to the restroom and his bed is shot full of holes by an automatic weapon.The assailant is dressed in commando attire.Dalton escapes his house and continues to wage a full scale gun battle with the commandos.He makes it to the highway where he is picked uo by Valentina Mariposa.She is a lawyer.They go to a police station to file a report.They wind up in a battle with false policemen.After this incident they decide to find out who is trying to kill Dalton.They go from Virginia to New York trying to find the culprits.Dalton even finds a girlfriend in the person of Elizabeth Houston.Dalton also finds a link with his past that leads to a frightening plot that will take place.This is an exciting book.It will keep you on the edge of your seat.

tough to put down

i started reading it around 10am stayed up until 2am. finished it. can not wait for the next book. good pace of writing. this author reminds me of kyle mills, daniel silva and john maxim.

A Superb Thriller

A very fast-paced action-filled novel with many surprise twists and turns, and with a plot which is all too believable. The writing is crisp and sharp, with a sprinkling of sly good humor throughout. Valentina is in a class of her own, but even marginal characters like Dortmund are individual and alive. Highly recommended. Can't wait for the next Lysander Dalton book to come out.