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I initially was reading through the series and, only now notice, I hadn't marked those in Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ. A bunch I don't remember which I read. I do recall I read the series out of order as I found the books. I was having a problem with the politics and other issues in content and I wasn't nutty of White's writing style.

That didn't stop me from gathering the entire series over the decades. I just hadn't read one in a long time and wasn't sure if I'd go back to reading the series.

When this became available through NetGalley.com, I thought it's time to read white again. It's the 27th entry. Authors lose a lot of steam at this point after 30 years of the dame character in novels. Starting the book, there were headwinds of still another Florida book shrouding a lousy book idea in a hurricane. Ugh!

I was wrong. The plot under it all is the standard bad guy thieves and the hero out to be the hero. It's the very involved plotting and storytelling that separates this as the very many before it.

Firs, the hurricane narrative: There are lots and lots and lots of Media that dip a tale in a Florida hurricane. Most do a poor to OK to good descriptions. The most portrayed narratives are of the storm coming and are usually the best of the coverage. The impact of storm is done next best. It's the aftermath that is nearly always a failure. That includes John D. MacDonald.

White does an outstanding job of depicting the entire storm, but goes beyond that involving the aftermath. As one who, like White, that has been through many a hurricane in Florida, the author goes above and beyond in his writing. I find it funny those reviewers who are taken aback by the dismal, violent writing White writes. What White has done is to have TWO adversaries in this book. The hurricane and the bad guys. The question should be which were the REAL bad guys and most violent? The mercenaries or the hurricane? White's narrative is brilliant in the reader considering the two.

Realize White doesn't leave a hurricane death toll. That is something hard to ever figure out in reality anyway. White also points to the likelihood that all dead, killed however, will be hurricane dead. Also, would one happen without the other?

There are a lot of characters strewn through the book. There's a needless side story of character Sammy and family, seemingly for emotional purposes. An unneeded distraction that impedes the flow of the book. Otherwise, the characters are quite a collection from all over the spectrum. One complaint I had with earlier books, I find here, too. The women are mostly all written the same. All tough broads to one degree or another that have very similar dialogue, though from different worlds.

It's the characters that I found of similar vein of Jame Hall's Thorn series. White's writing in certain ways is better and the story is far more far reaching. The cat and mouse chase spans chapters and well done. One complaint is a next to final encounter of good and bad, where the good could have pretty easily be sure bad is really gone. That's the biggest sloppiness I found.

Overall, this is the best of the series I've read and...

Bottom line: I recommend this book. 9 out of ten points.