From the Publisher
Winning....A steady supply of action...will leave readers wondering if the author has come up with a solution to the real-life Madoff mysteries that still remain.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review) on Need You Now
“A complex and dizzying shell game…entertaining. Grippando’s novel adds up the collateral damage when billions belonging to the wrong kind of people go missing.” — Kirkus Reviews on Need You Now
“A timely and solid plot-driven read....Another Grippando gripper.” — Booklist on Need You Now
“Readers who enjoy a good thriller with a constantly twisting plot will appreciate this timely novel.” — Library Journal on Need You Now
“Readers looking for a great thriller will see a master at the top of his game in Need You Now.” — Associated Press on Need You Now
“Superb...Current events have proved that financial thrillers set against the background of Wall Street, banking and investments can be as exciting as any espionage drama, and Grippando makes the most of this backdrop in Need You Now while delivering a character-rich plot.” — Miami Herald on Need You Now
“Grippando’s use of current events adds realism to his novels, and this ripped-from-the-headlines approach brings a sense of urgency to Need You Now. The action is nonstop but Grippando also brings the same sense of realism to his characters.” — Sun-Sentinel (South Florida) on Need You Now
“A brilliant blend of financial chicanery and government conspiracy which yields a story that is all too believable.” — Iron Mountain News on Need You Now
“Rousing. . . . An exciting tale of revenge.” — Publishers Weekly
“Grippando has definitely reached a new level with this series entry. . . . One of his best.” — Booklist (starred review)
“Filled with twists and turns and edge-of-the-seat tension.” — Romantic Times
“Superb plotting, high suspense, compelling timely issues, and finely honed characters make this crime novel/international thriller a great read.” — Library Journal (starred review)
Miami Herald on Need You Now
Superb...Current events have proved that financial thrillers set against the background of Wall Street, banking and investments can be as exciting as any espionage drama, and Grippando makes the most of this backdrop in Need You Now while delivering a character-rich plot.
Sun-Sentinel (South Florida) on Need You Now
Grippando’s use of current events adds realism to his novels, and this ripped-from-the-headlines approach brings a sense of urgency to Need You Now. The action is nonstop but Grippando also brings the same sense of realism to his characters.
Booklist on Need You Now
A timely and solid plot-driven read....Another Grippando gripper.
Booklist (starred review)
Grippando has definitely reached a new level with this series entry. . . . One of his best.
Iron Mountain News on Need You Now
A brilliant blend of financial chicanery and government conspiracy which yields a story that is all too believable.
Associated Press on Need You Now
Readers looking for a great thriller will see a master at the top of his game in Need You Now.
Romantic Times
Filled with twists and turns and edge-of-the-seat tension.
Booklist
"Grippando has definitely reached a new level with this series entry. . . . One of his best."
Romantic Times
Filled with twists and turns and edge-of-the-seat tension.
Booklist (starred review)
Grippando has definitely reached a new level with this series entry. . . . One of his best.
Booklist on Need You Now
A timely and solid plot-driven read....Another Grippando gripper.
Kirkus Reviews
In Grippando's latest (Afraid of the Dark, 2011, etc.), a Madoff-like character pilfers billions, but some victims don't complain. They kill. Abe Cushman was the hot-from-the-headlines Ponzi purveyor who pulled a Houdini with $60 billion. Now his suicide has left the money lost in the shadows. Patrick Lloyd is a young financial analyst for the International Bank of Switzerland, a too-big-to-fail institution luxuriating on huge accounts accessible only by code numbers. The SEC is hamstrung, but the FBI isn't. Patrick is persuaded by an FBI agent to seek assignment in Singapore. He agrees for selfish reasons. In Singapore, Patrick met and bedded Lilly Scanlon, another BOS analyst. Lilly was the agent for the electronic transfers of $2 billion flowing between Cushman and Gerry Collins' GC Investments in Florida, one of the scheme's feeder funds. Now Collins has been garroted, and Lilly is on the lam. Tony Martin, a witness-protected mobster bilked by Collins, confessed to the murder, but there are other bad actors involved. One is Manu Robledo, an Argentine with connections to South America's Tri-Border region, a lawless outpost where guns and drugs are sold and terrorists find warm welcome. Lilly lands in New York seeking Patrick's help, and as they investigate, the innocent and the guilty are kidnapped, tortured and killed. A complex and mind-dizzying shell game, Grippando's tale is heavy on action and filled with the stereotypical characters necessary to keep pages turning. The new BOS chief is a former Treasury official who must find the money or lose more than his career. There's Mongoose, a one-time covert agent. And then there's a lowly quantitative analyst, a "quant," who diagrammed a plot tracing the billions through a mysterious project code-named BAQ and into hawalas, a worldwide informal banking and money-transfer system often used by the wrong kind of people. Agreeably entertaining, Grippando's novel adds up the collateral damage when billions belonging to the wrong kind of people go missing.
