Badger Games |  | Author: Jon A. Jackson
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 2698497
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Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 330
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.4
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
ASIN: B000VYTPLU
Publication Date: July 2002
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The latest from masterful mystery writer Jon A. Jackson, Badger Games is an international cat-and-mouse game beginning in Kosovo and stretching to the mountains of Montana. Ex-freelance contractor to the Mob, Joe Service is now in the employ of the Lucani, a cadre of rogue government agents who have recently lost an operative known only as Franko. Franko, last seen in the path of a drug-smuggling ring through a Kosovar mountain village, was from Montana — so Joe and his lover, Mafia princess Helen Sedlacek, head to Butte to see what they can learn. But they're not the only ones. A volatile mercenary nicknamed the Badger is also looking for Franko; and the Lucani have sent backup — to help Joe or contain him, he's not sure — in the form of a bombshell who rivals Lara Croft for sex appeal and dangerous moves. They are quickly caught up in a deadly game of hide-and-seek in the rough-hewn mountain landscape, culminating in a terrifying night in the tunnels of an abandoned mine. Badger Games is a taut, wicked thriller from a master of the genre.
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 Holy Ned! Don't Read This One First! It's #9 in a Series! January 18, 2005
The reviewer below missed a lot-- the Fang Mulheisen books are one long story about a detective and the colorful people he works with and chases down. Don't read this one first: read and savor the first 8 books in the series. They are: The Die Hard, The Blind Pig, Grootka, Hit on the House, Dead Man, Dead Folks, Man With an Axe, and La Donna Detroit. (And his new Fang novel, No Man's Dog, is #10.) These are GREAT novels, full of perceptive writing and compelling characters. Get to know them and this book will enchant you. Don't, and you'll be like the reviewer below, clueless.
 Not very compelling and kind of confusing too August 20, 2003
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This is the first book I've read by Jon Jackson. I think there are other books with the same protagonists, and maybe if I'd read those first I would have liked this book better. I did not find the protagonists interesting at all. In fact, I found the villain--even though I think the author tried very hard to make him unlikeable--to be a more interesting and even occasionally compelling character. The plot had some trouble too...either I wasn't reading carefully enough, or there were some major unanswered questions about the motives of several characters. Last of all the author tended to use various names to refer to the same character (e.g. sometimes calling a person by his last name, sometimes his first, sometimes a title) and I thought this was a bit confusing since there are a lot of characters involved in the story.To summarize...this book was entertaining enough to finish, but mostly I was glad when it ended so I could start another book.
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