The Bounty by Janet Evanovich and Steve Hamilton takes us on a global adventure reminiscent of Dan Brown but with typical Janet Evanovich humor. Kate and Nick, along with their fathers, embark on a quest to find lost gold with other gold seekers right behind them..

The story was creative and well written. It was a page turner that will keep your attention!

Get ready to embark on another dazzling adventure with special agent Kate O'Hare and infamous Nick Fox. What's on the line this time? Oh, only a couple tons of gold, worth $30 billion dollars. Nothing to sneeze at, that's for sure.

Finding and piecing together parts of a treasure map is just the beginning of the tale for these two. Running away from a large and dangerous organization known as the Brotherhood makes life quite dicey for everyone involved.

Kate and Nick enlist the help of Quentin, Nick's father. But is this truly the right thing to do, or will none of them survive? Jump in head first to this thrilling tale of treasure hunting at its best.

Nick Fox and Kate O'Hare are back in The Bounty, the 7th installment in the Fox and O'Hare series and are on loan to Interpol and the Vatican to help thwart an anticipated theft of a papal ring. When the thief instead steals a map which purportedly leads to a fortune in gold hidden by the Nazis, Nick and Kate are on a hunt across Europe to beat a shadowy organization known as The Brotherhood to the lost treasure.

As Nick and Kate race across Europe, they bring their fathers in to help - Quentin, Nick's father and a former government operative and Jake, Kate's father and a retired Marine who worked black ops projects who have invaluable experience and contacts to help Nick and Kate stay one step ahead of the Brotherhood.

I absolutely loved the Fox and O'Hare series right up until The Big Kahuna, which was not at all consistent with the existing storyline. I thought I was done with the series until I saw that Steve Hamilton had been brought in as the new co-author for this installment. The Bounty was much, much better than the previous book and redeemed the series for me. Although it didn't quite capture the same magic that there was in the first 5 books of the series, it was fast paced, entertaining, and highly readable. I look forward to more adventures with Nick and Kate.

Let me start by saying, in my opinion, this book redeemed the series and them some! It was a fast paced mystery with all the quirkiness and fun you would expect in a Foxx and O'Hare novel. Any reader could easily read this book and enjoy it. However, if you are new to the series(and enjoy series), I would highly recommend that you start at the beginning, so you can get to know the characters better and enjoy the quirky fun more.

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I was drawn to this book by the cover. I became award of this book because I work at a library and see many people checking out this authors books. They have told me her stories are funny and is action packed adventures. After reading this newest installment (of the Fox and O’Hare series) The team includes a FBI agent Kate O’Hare and charming criminal Nick Fox (their chemistry reminded me of the cop and author show on TV called Castle) This novel remined me a little of the movies Indiana Jones and National Treasure as Kate and Nick chase down pieces of a historical map in order to locate a pot of gold.


The two lead characters have been together chasing down criminals (this is the seventh book in the series) this one is personal for both Kate and Nick. I did not get lost in this fast-paced action back story, but I will be checking out book one in this series to find out the back story between these two.

I loved that the author takes readers to several historical landmarks like inside the Neuschwansten Castle in Germany. It was beautiful. it was fun to learn that the name translated means New Swan Stone Castle (the book refers this and the fact that Disney might have used this castle for Cinderella’s castle in his kingdoms) It’s the first book I’ve read by this author it won’t be the last.

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I received a copy of this book from Netgalley for review. When Kate Hare and Nick Fox are sent off on their latest mission, they assumed it would be a fairly typical job, even if it's in the Vatican. What they did not expect was to find that the perpetrator of the heist was Nick's father. What begins as a simple security job leads to a wild chase across Europe, where they meet the parents, run from polar bears, climb a mountain, and fight Nazis. It is a fun and improbably ride, and it was precisely what I needed on that day.
If you are a fan of the series, you should be able to jump right into the book. If you are new to the series, it contains just enough backstory to keep you from feeling lost. There is enough action and adventure to keep the story moving at a lightning pace, and the comedy keeps the story from bogging down in the slower moments. Overall, it is a fun and fast paced adventure, and it is exactly what I expected from the series.

This may be my favorite of all the Evanovich books. Take a historical event or "secret" add some mystery and humor mix with a undercurrent of romance, that is this title. Kate O'Hare and Nicholas Fox are pleasing characters. They continue the developing their relationship while breaking most of the directives of their FBI boss. I particularly enjoyed the visits to the Neuschwanstein Castle and its swam motif.

THE BOUNTY – JANET EVANOVICH WITH STEVE HAMILTON
A FOX AND O’HARE NOVEL
PUBLISHED BY ATRIA BOOKS
PUB DATE 23RD MARCH.
My rating 3.5⭐
PLOT – FBI agent Kate O’Hare and ex- thief Nick Fox along with their fathers, in this action packed adventure ride have to find the bounty – the buried Nazi Gold , a hidden treasure with the help of a map. EASY?? – NOPE!!! As the map is divided into 4 parts and each part is hidden in extremely difficult to access places all over Europe! Only when they have all 4 pieces of the map after joining them only they will be able to find the bounty! But all this they have to figure out and get to before an international organisation called brotherhood gets to it and claims it for themselves!
My thoughts –
• There was too much action and at some point it even got absurd and far fetched that it was totally unbelievable.
• Lack of chemistry between the lead pair even though they have hots for each other.
• It’s like as if they are participating in The Amazing Race – Europe Edition where at the end of each leg u will get a piece of map which will lead you to your next clue and destination and the last leg will win you the bounty (Nazi Gold)!
• It’s a fast paced action mystery adventure ride. It’s not a bad story at all but it could have been better.
Thank you Netgalley and Atria books for this e-arc in exchange for my honest unbiased opinion.

This is an exciting, on-the-edge-of-your-seat, thrilling, can’t-put-it-down read. It was so engrossing I read it through in one sitting – boy did I pay for that the next day – but it was worth it! Steve Hamilton is the third co-author in this series, so I wondered how that was going to work. I definitely enjoyed the first five stories when Lee Goldberg was the co-author. I wasn’t as thrilled with the sixth one co-authored by Peter Evanovich, but this one with Steve Hamilton is good. There are definitely changes in Nick’s character though – they are subtle, but they are there. Nick isn’t as smooth and polished (think Remington Steele or Neil Caffrey from White Collar Crime) as he was in the beginning. Kate, however, is just as tough-as-nails as she ever was.

Kate and Nick are working with Interpol to track down an organization called The Brotherhood. In order to expand their organization and fund their efforts to bring a Fourth Reich to power, the Brotherhood wants to find billions of dollars’ worth of gold bullion that was buried by the Nazis just before WWII ended. In the opening scenes, Interpol knows someone is going to rob the Vatican and they assume the target is a valuable ring from the Pope’s collection. They are all set – all of the police organizations are in place – security is so tight that a flea couldn’t get through. Until – someone does get through. He definitely has world-class skills and when Nick almost catches him, he is absolutely shocked at the thief’s identity.

As they investigate and learn more and more, their ‘team’ grows to include both Kate and Nick’s fathers along with a mild-mannered professor and a former British SAS member. While they race around the countries that made up the former Axis countries, the Brotherhood is right on their heels. We travel all across those countries and back again looking for maps that contain clues to the location of the treasure. The maps are hidden in some of the most gosh-awful places – even polar bear habitats – and they contain cryptic and obscure clues. Our intrepid crew performs some death-defying stunts before they come to the end of the case. There are lots of twists and turns before the bad guys get their comeuppance and the whole thing will keep you holding your breath.

I’ll also point out that the blurb is misleading in regards to Nick and Kate’s fathers. Nick’s father didn’t teach him everything he knows – at least not how to be a world-class thief and con man. I’m not sure his father even knew about his career as a criminal. Nick’s father had done some ‘off the books’ work for the CIA and sort of lead a double life in that respect. When Nick learned of it, he and his father basically became estranged. Nick and his father share a great many talents – but they were mostly on different sides of the law. Kate and her father don’t disagree about everything. He does his best to protect her as any father would, but he listens to her, he helps her, and they collaborate on most things.

I thoroughly enjoyed this read and I hope you will as well. If you haven’t read the first five books in the series, I highly recommend those to you.

I voluntarily read and reviewed an Advanced Reader Copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Janet Evanovich and Steve Hamilton have come together with The Bounty, the latest humorous adventure novel in the Kate O'Hara and Nick Fox series. She is the F.B.I. agent and he is the gentleman thief who work together to solve yet another case. This one has them searching for the bounty in the title, through the putting back together a treasure map, piece by piece found in location after location, before moving onto the final cache of gold.

In this seventh book in the Fox and O’Hare series, the plotting reads as a paint by numbers, with few twists. The map piece says they must go to Paris, they go to Paris and eventually discover the next portion of the map, which directs them to their next destination and off they go. Even the characters in this novel are not as lively as in some of the earlier entries in this series. Though the lead characters are attracted to one another, and there is playful flirting, gone is the tension that was once present. Additionally, rather than the cast of many wild characters, the reader in this one has comparative few. Nick’s father makes his first appearance, as does Kate’s father, and a few others.

Those new to Fox and O’Hare might want to begin with earlier novels, so that they get a full immersion in the delightful characters and plotting, fans of the series will still enjoy this, comparatively tamer offering.

FBI agent Kate O’Hare and ex-criminal Nick Fox are drawn into the search for $30 billion of gold, purportedly hidden by the Nazis during WWII and never found 75 years later. A thief is seen escaping from the Vatican, but what has he stolen? It is certainly not what security expected. And who is this thief who is able to parachute away from the high, but not too high, building. What ensues is a puzzle, with each clue revealed in some famous city and famous landmark in Europe. And Nick, Kate, and assistants (their fathers) are not the only ones looking for the treasure. A secretive, ruthless international organization known as the Brotherhood is also in search of the treasure, and they are on the trail (or tail) of our heroes as they hopscotch back and forth through Europe. This is the 7th book by Envanovich featuring Kate O’Hare and Nick Fox, albeit with 3 different co-authors, and the first that I have read. The relationship between Kate and Nick is complicated, and I guess you have to have read some of the earlier books to understand it. The story line was too predictable - each step in the puzzle resulted in success at the very last second. This book was definitely in the Evanovich style (humor and bumbling heroes), but not the Evanovich I have come to know and love in the Stephanie Plum series. My thanks to Atria and NetGalley for the ARC of this book in exchange for my review.

This book is very fast paced and is everything you want from a Kate and Nick escapade. This book redeemed the series in my opinion, though it could have used a bit more of Nick's famous dialog. Overall a good book that people are going to enjoy reading.

This newest story in the Kate O'Hare and Nick Fox series of adventures is fantastic -- possibly the best one yet, as we start to learn a little bit more about the characters and their families and what makes them crave justice and do whatever it takes to get the bad guys. This is an easy one to recommend to readers who have enjoyed the previous Kate and Nick books, but I think it will also appeal to many readers of cozy mysteries who are looking for something different or want to break out of their reading routine a little. For all their adventure and mayhem, they are comforting because they are predictable, reliable reads (and I mean that in a good way).

A great improvement over books #5 and #6. I am glad I stuck with the series. Kate and Nick find themselves on an epic treasure hunt with both of their dads. Jake has always been one of my favorite characters and Nick's dad Quentin was a great addition to the team. This bunch travels from the Vatican, to the Eiffel Tower, to Neuschwanstein Castle, to a zoo in Vienna, and more. They are gathering pieces of a treasure map to beat a Neo-Nazi group to find massive stash of gold bars that was confiscated by Hitler's cronies during WW II and hidden in a super secret location. Lots of action, team camaraderie, and a satisfying conclusion. I do miss some of the quirky characters from the first few books like Willie. Guess those people were Lee Goldberg creations.

Thank you to Atria Books and NetGalley for a DRC in exchange for an honest review.

I enjoyed the previous books and I enjoyed this one as well with the new co-writer. There was a lot of action, some of it almost MI-5 over the top, but not quite as outlandish. As I noted in previous books, there is a lack about chemistry between the characters. All interplay is about the mission, the characters relationship with each other aren't developed or explored. I was really looking forward to the dads connecting and having some fun byplay, but no. I also wanted more between Nick and his dad and Nick and Kate.

While I missed the original team of professionals Nick came up with to help in the previous books (again very MI-5ish), again I complained about a lack of chemistry or character development beyond them doing only what was necessary to move the action along changing to the dads as the support team wasn't bad except for the aforementioned lack of chemistry development.

I've given up on Evanovich's Plum books because they haven't changed since book 1. The plots are interchangeable and the characters are still spinning their wheels. Thanks to the co-authors, I am more inclined to continue with this series, but I wish they would work on the characters and not just focus on bare bones action.

I received my copy from Netgalley in exchange for my honest review.

My first book by this author. All I can say is wow and what took me so long. Excellent writing and an amazing story! I give it 5 stars and a strong recommendation!

A straight up non-stop action thrill ride of a treasure hunt. This installment has Nick and Kate and their dads hunting Nazi gold all over Europe. It has everything from a treasure map, nerdy professor to wondrously evil bad guys. This story is a total romp!

I was really hoping that The Bounty by Janet Evanovich and Steve Hamilton would be a five star read, but I spent about 10 minutes trying to decide if I would give it two or three stars. I settled on three, but maybe by the end of writing this review it’ll be down to two.

First, I have to say, I use to enjoy Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum series, Lean Mean Thirteen is a hoot!, but I stopped reading around book 20 because they just weren’t laugh out loud funny any more and I couldn’t handle the love triangle. So going into The Bounty I wanted to find a series by her to love again. (And I just sighed….)

The Bounty started out fantastic, at least chapter one. And then chapter two felt like it was switched off to the next author and they didn’t really read chapter one. Then it was non-stop action, which normally is great. But the action went like this; they go to a place, they do something insane, the bad guys come in the middle of it, they fight off the bad guys, they go to the next place, repeat, repeat, repeat.

As for how unbelievable most of it is, I can totally overlook that because it’s fiction. But I can’t overlook the same formula repeated every few chapters, the lack of funny in the book (that many of the big name reviewers keep mentioning), and the chemistry between Fox and O’Hare that has developed over the previous six books fell flat in book seven.
Whelp, looks like I’m changing that three star rating to two.

The Bounty is a fast read. I finished it in a day because I could not put it down. I liked the romance of the main characters with the adventure mixed in. It reminded me of the old fashioned crime novels- fun and thrilling at the same time.

I really, really, really did not like this book.

It reads like Fox and O'Hare fan fiction, and not in a good way. It truly feels like the author got the free copy of Uncharted from Sony's PlayAtHome quarantine PS4 promotion and decided to write a fan-fic mashup of Nick Drake's adventures with the adventures of Nick and Kate. It really didn't work.

Don't get me wrong, I was so excited to see a new Fox and O'Hare book - I wasn't crazy about the last madcap adventure to Hawaii, but that's okay, I still love Kate, Nick, Jack, and the rest of Kate's crazy family! Nick and Kate are fun together and Jack reminds me of a one-man A-Team (I can picture him with a cigar saying, "I love it when a plan comes together!").

But this book. It started with an interesting premise - we get to meet Nick's dad who is also a master thief! There's a treasure map! Adventure!

But the writing is just terrible. We change perspective from the four main characters virtually every paragraph, sometimes even changing inside the same paragraph. We go from Nick thinking in the first person
> "La la la... I know about steam engines," Nick thought
to experiencing Kate's life:
> "I need to shoot all my bullets at these guys so Nick can save the day," Kate mused.
And don't get me started about the construction: "Jack knew that the Nazis blah blah blah...."

I'm about 80% of the way done about five days into it. It's a slog. Every Fox and O'Hare book previously was a one day read. I couldn't get enough. Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg had something special!

Peter Evanovich did a passable job in Big Kahuna. I gave it a "meh" maybe next time grade.

I really wish Steve Hamilton didn't write this book.