Baby Shark's High Plains Redemption

by Robert Fate

Book Overview

When Kristin Van Dijk and Otis Millett, are hired to bring home Savannah, the kidnapped girlfriend of an Oklahoma bootlegger, they learn the hard way that someone wants the gorgeous redhead so badly... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0979996023
• ISBN13: 9780979996023
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Capital Crime Press
• Length: 287 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Third in Baby Shark Series - Exciting Addition!

"In a spine-jolting crunch that flattened me against the steering wheel, the Mercury slid under them and their car came down on my hood, leaving my horn blaring and my engine roaring...I spun around in the seat, used both feet to push open the door, moved fast...and started forward with my pistol in my hand." (p. 137) Like Fast-paced? Like strong female PI's? Meet.... Baby Shark! I came in on the "third act" of Baby Shark, in High Plains Redemption, but I'll be going back to pick up the first two books...and continue on with this hot series by Robert Fate! Baby Shark reminds me of Geena Davis in my all-time favorite action movie, The Long Kiss Goodnight! If you loved Geena in some of her outrageous acts in that movie, then you'll certainly want to meet Baby Shark: She can take it: "He grabbed me by my hair and pulled me around so hard I thought my neck would snap. He jammed a hand between my thighs, picked me up by my crotch and the hair of my head, swooped me up shoulder high--and then I was falling..." (p. 130) And she can dish it out: "I moved instantly, swinging my hands out as I fell forward, chopping my blades into their necks as if I were striking cymbals. The first cuts were to the bone, but I slashed up and pressed in, doing even more injury as I withdrew, leaving their neck wounds open wide and their heads nearly detached from their bodies." (p. 251) High Plains Redemption takes Kristin Van Dijk, aka Baby Shark and partner, Otis Millett into bootlegging country and two warring mountain clans, as they are hired to find and return Savannah, daughter of one of the clan leaders--hired, but not by her own family! Baby Shark is as confused as everybody else as they try to determine exactly what is happening and who is leaving the trail of bodies behind as Savannah is located and then lost again. Baby Shark knows only one thing--she must protect Savannah! No matter what or who gets in the way. Unfortunately, that could actually be her lover, Lee, who happens to be a law officer who expects her to follow all the legal rules that he does in protecting the innocent! It is a constant struggle, for Baby Shark knows, "we work on the edge of the law, and...it gets blurry out there were Otis and I deal with things." (p. 198) And Baby Shark just doesn't think she can trust Lee... Admit it, readers! This sounds like that exciting novel into which you want to escape this weekend! Well, you'll be right! This book is highly recommended for lovers of action thrillers! So, excuse me, now...I'm going back to start reading: Baby Shark--first book in what I expect will be Robert Fate's fantastic series! You might want to start at the beginning... but, no problem, High Plains Redemption stands alone as a great addition, so wherever you meet her, I think you'll thoroughly enjoy Baby Shark! G. A. Bixler

Baby Shark's High Plains Redemption

In Baby Shark's High Plains Redemption, Kristin Van Dijk ventures from Texas soil to the Oklahoma High Plains. But she's not on vacation. She's after a young girl who's disappeared. Woe be to the men who've taken her. Kristin is armed with guns and knives and, like a shark with sharp teeth, she knows how to use those deadly weapons. Unlike some characters in books who've been trained to fight and kill, Kristin keeps an eye on her moral compass and is strong on both the outside and the inside. Author Fate has even managed to give her a softer side which allows her to see beyond her job as a hard-nosed and lethal PI. Now, if Fate could only write faster!

Reviewing: Baby Shark's High Plains Redemption

The third in the action crime Baby Shark series opens in May 1957. Kristin, aka Baby Shark, is still wielding guns and pool sticks with deadly accuracy. She is still working with Otis and the latest case and resulting plan of action were supposed to be relatively simple. Travis Horner has a girlfriend who got into some sort of trouble and is currently up in Oklahoma. She isn't kidnapped exactly, but she isn't free to leave either. In exchange for some money, Otis gets to bring the girlfriend back to Travis Horner. Kristin is supposed to lurk, provide support, and deal with anything unexpected that comes up. Something she does very well and normally she is on time. However, as usual in May in Oklahoma, the weather is atrocious. A tornado that traveled through the vicinity has delayed her arrival by some two hours making the drive up from Fort Worth, Texas even harder. Plenty of time for things to have gone badly and they have. Kristin never wanted any part of rescuing the girlfriend of a bootlegger, no matter how pretty or how well she can play the piano. Now, she has to rescue Otis also which will require violence. Violence is something Kristin has become very comfortable with the few years since her father died in front of her and she was brutally assaulted. Nobody does violence better than Kristin, aka Baby Shark, and there are serious consequences for those stupid enough to get in her way. Featuring the same occasionally funny one liners, plenty of violence, and more break neck adventure, Robert Fate has penned another winner. Morality, always present in this series, plays a bigger role as Kristin in considers two major problems. One is the ease she steps into and out of violent actions which often leaves others dead in the chaos and wreckage. Truth be told, she likes it when circumstances force her into acting violently because she no longer knows any other way. Violence to those who interfere is simple while relationships and love are far more complicated. If violence is the answer, where does that leave the romance between herself and Lee, a detective with the Dallas PD? Questions that have no easy answers much like what to do with the gorgeous redhead bootlegger's girlfriend, who is responsible for the waves of bad guys coming after them, and the major question as to the why of everything. Like the other books in the series, the motives of others, beside shooting at them is vague and unstated and Otis and Kristen have to survive long enough to get any answers at all. What is clear from the chaotic opening under an Oklahoma sky pulsing with jagged lighting to the final chaotic shoot out in a hospital in Fort Worth, Robert Fate's latest novel in the series easily is equal to the first two books. Another clear winner and one sure to please his growing legions of fans while recruiting new ones. Advance review copy was graciously provided by the author directly. Kevin R. Tipple (copyright) 2008

Baby Shark's High Plains Redemption

Baby Shark's High Plains Redemption Robert Fate's story telling requires that I allot the time to finish the book because once I've started reading it, I have trouble putting it down before finishing it. A highly readable book!

Baby Shark Returns With a Vengeance!

I await each new appearance of Baby Shark with breathless anticipation, and High Plains Redemption doesn't disappoint. Kristin van Dijk returns with a vengeance, a little older, a little more determined, dangerous as always--and still a crack nine-ball player. This time, Kristin must not only confront politically-connected gangsters and savage hired guns but also the dark shadow her own history casts within her. Taut and unrelenting, with an edge of cool humor and a foundation of essential humanity, High Plains Redemption is a marvelous new chapter in the Baby Shark story.