Final Target: A Graham Gage Mystery

By Steven Gore

Book Overview

From San Francisco to London to Kiev, investigator Graham Gage is in a race against the FBI and Ukraine gangsters to solve an intricate stock swindle and arms deal in time to clear his friend's name. Gage peels away the layers of the collapse of SatTek Industries in San Jose to find a plot that morphs into something bigger, something that will put the American military in the Middle East at risk. Weaving a carefully-layered tale of greed, money laundering, and European politics, author Steven Gore takes us, with wonderful dialogue and local description to London, Geneva, the Channel Islands, and finally - featuring 2 fabulous Ukrainian gangster characters - Kiev. A great cast of characters throughout the book, and a great twist at the end too

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590587499
• ISBN13: 9781590587492
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Sourcebooks, Incorporated
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.8" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

Very compelling read!

I thoroughly enjoyed Final Target. It is a compelling mystery/thriller which I had a hard time putting down until I was finished reading it. It's a wonderful story of corporate fraud and the characters are interesting and well developed. I highly recommend it. Julie Houk

Final Target

Steven Gore drew upon his years as a private investigator to present a great fictional story. As someone who has been in the investigation business for over 30 years I found Gore's presentation to be right on. He was able to weave a great thriller of a story while giving the reader a real insider's view of what it is like to be a private investigator. I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys reading a book full of suspense and intrigue. I hope this will just be the first in a series of books for Gore.

Fantastic can't put it down international thriller

Final Target This first novel has all the ingredients of a literary gourmet meal. The complexity of the story line keeps the reader wanting more and the author keeps leading the reader down a path with bread crumbs spiked with twists and turns that keep rolling back on themselves. Like fly on a spider's web in the forest, I was caught in the intrigue, knowing I had no choice but succumb to the intricacies of the web. The 'bad guys' will fool you, the 'good guys' will inspire you and it is best to order take out, because you won't put it down until you are done.

An Airplane Books with Wings A Character with Legs?

I fly a lot; and until I bought a Kindle, I am sure my contributions to the thriller market kept more than a few authors in Scotch and cigarettes. Last week, I was going through MIA, and I lost my Kindle. Fortunately, they still have bookstores and authors like Steve Gore. Final Target saved my trip. As I was battling the jet stream back to the Coast, Gore's prose was soaring through the stratosphere, above the turbulence of the usual airplane thriller. No returning Nazis, swarthy South American, or characters retired, or cashiered from the Alphabet soup of "secret" government service. Instead the book focuses on the adventures of a private investigator, Graham Gage, in his attempt to absolve his friend, an edge walking lawyer who the prosecutors think has jumped over the line. The book is a cut above the usual thriller. The characters are believable and the background is intelligent, and I still kept turning the pages. Even the denouement did not depend upon a suspension of disbelief. In this day of Bernie Madoff and corporate criminality, Gore's constructions are entirely believable, as well as entertaining. I was left with only one question. If the life of a private eye is so entertaining, why did Gore leave it go into writing? No matter how that riddle is answered, (is Gore just another elaborate pseudonym for James Frey?) the reader should just suspend disbelief, jump in and enjoy.

wildly entertaining intrigue and mayhem

A chance to be thoroughly entertained by corporate greed on an international scale with interesting and complicated rubes, gangsters, villains and heroes. And, you get to do some vicarious sightseeing around the world. It's a great book by someone who obviously knows about and makes sense of the complexities of the world and people of which he writes. Can't wait for the next one.