GREEN TO GO

"Green To Go is a rip-roaring, lock you to your seat adventure that careens through the Caribbean with the momentum of a crash landing. Great characters, excellent suspense, just enough romance, and lots of action, all bound together with the author's crisp writing style." - Michael Reisig, author of The Road To Key West

I noticed it in the last Buck Reilly adventure, and I'm going to say it again. John Cunningham's ability to keep the story light-hearted while tackling some interesting political issues is really excellent. Buck is such a great character, downtrodden and sincere in his failure but also retaining a level of hope and positivity that keeps the reader rooting for him through the whole book. Any story about Buck could be a winner, but the fact that Cunningham puts him in theoretical Cuba right after the death of the Castro brothers, or in the middle of a heist of gold with political significance, is a testament to Cunningham's ability to spin a really engaging story while making the reader think.

It isn't just Buck who's great, all the characters seem effortlessly well rounded. I appreciate Cunningham's way of creating characters who, at first glance, could be light hearted clichés, but there's always something more about them. It keeps the reading experience light and comfortable, but lets the reader feel as though they're really getting something out of the book. I was pretty sure I could tell where it was going, but there were a couple of suspenseful occasions where I was gripping the book, hoping that this wasn't it for old Buck! – Bridget Kulakauskas, Illiterarty

This is the second in the Buck Reilly series by John H Cunningham. Buck is a seriously down on his luck ex-corporate type, current treasure hunter living in Key West, Florida. Trouble seems to follow him around. In this book a friend is kidnapped and Buck is commissioned to find him.

This is an adventure/mystery story with lots of twists and turns. The story takes place in Florida and Cuba and has Buck again facing some seriously bad guys. I started reading it in a walk-in-clinic where I was waiting to get a prescription; it was a two hour wait and the time flew by as I got absorbed in the story and the chase.

Buck is a cliché name for a character who is not at all a cliché. Sure he's flawed but he has a definite sense of right and wrong; an ability to make good friends and has a strong sense of responsibility. Buck is a likeable character. The story is told in the first person so we have the benefit of his thoughts and feelings. This isn't just an adventure story; it's a story about the ability to move on with life even when bad things happen to you; it's evolving into a love story and above all it's a good story. – Shari Morehouse, Shari’s Book Notes