The Execution audiobook

Who hasn’t seen at least one episode of Law and Order, the longest running scripted show on television? It’s been around, would you believe, since 1990. Dick Wolf, the creator of the show, is an award winning director, and producer. Now he's turned his hand to writing books, and he's proved that he can tell gripping stories no matter the medium.In 2013, he released his first book THE INTERCEPT, and it took me a while to get around to reading it. (If you saw my to-be-read review pile, you would be afraid.) Once I did get to it, I read it in a few sittings. It was brilliant, and a masterful thriller debut.Its not surprising that Wolf can write a page turning thriller/drama. He does wonders with a 40-minute television slot. Through that discipline, it’s clear he’s learned the craft of grabbing hold of a reader and not letting them go until the last page.This year he’s released the second in the series THE EXECUTION—although you can read either of these books as a stand-alone. Both stories are a cross between a police procedural and a political thriller set in New York.His protagonist, Jeremy Fisk, is an investigating officer from the department's Intelligence Division in New York, and he is the perfect, intelligent character on the wrong side of authority to take us on a thill ride.The story setups are very good. In THE INTERCEPT a plane hijacking is foiled and the passengers who prevent it become instant celebrities. Fisk suspects there is more to this attempt than meets the eye, and that there is an even greater terrorist threat connected to it.In THE EXECUTION, we follow on directly from the first book, and in the opening scenes, there are some grizzly, nasty chapters à la Breaking Bad involving a Mexican drug lord. Wolf introduces us to Detective Cecilia Garza of the Mexican intelligence agency, and she is a great foil for Jeremy Fisk.Dick Wolf has become one of my favorite authors. I never miss an episode of Law and Order; in 24 years I’ve only ever missed a couple of episodes of any of the series. I won’t be missing any of his books either. He is an accomplished author and knows how to entertain in any format.Thank you to Hachette Australia who supplied both these books to me in return for my honest opinion.

Tremendous second novel in the Jeremy Fisk series! I would highly recommend you read "The Intercept" first as this is a continueing series. If you haven't read the "The Intercept", start ASAP!

A wonderful continuation of the Jeremy Fisk series. A nice enjoyable escape into a crime mystery. I grew to love Fisk in the first novel, and felt his female counterpart in that story was great, but here I loved even more the character of Cecilia Garza. She was a much stronger rival/lover for him. She was such a strong woman with that right amount of vulnerability. Her story was fascinating; interactions between her Fisk were interesting and compelling. I hope that we will see more of her as the series continues. Overall it was a very interesting and well-written story. I can't wait to read more stories from Dick Wolf and go on more adventures with Jeremy Fisk.

Great read. Beyond the lines drawn between countries there are those who blur the lines for their own benefit, they are called assassins. With one federal agents mission to find the truth and another agent from Mexico trying to catch a self made man in brutality. Then add this directive of the killer, whom has managed to hide his idenity, to make his mark before he is killed in this game of cat and mouse. Very well written, thoroughly enjoyed this book. Highly recommended read.

I loved this book. There were a lot of different stories that interconnected. I loved the character of Garza as she was such a strong, incorruptible police officer. Her story was fascinating and her interactions with Jeremy were compelling. A very interesting and well-written story. Can't wait to read more stories by this author.

This is the second book by Dick Wolf and you may recognize his name since he co-created/wrote the Law and Order series on TV. Main character in this book is Jeremy Fisk and he works for the NYPD. Jeremy is what you would call your normal cop working for the department. He works on his own trying to find terrorists based in New York. This time he is after a group that reminds me of ISIS. This book is scary and not in the horror way but in the real life way because this can happen and then again it may be happening as your reading this. I thought the book was going to be like this throughout boy was I wrong. The book opens with Jeremy sitting in a car at the Canadian border (New York side) waiting for terrorists to cross who have a highly toxic, radioactive isotope in the middle of winter during a snow storm. Windows ice up and it is Jeremy’s turn to scrape windows. Jeremy goes to take care of business in the trees and hears a lot of gun fire (fade out). Now it is July and the setting is Mexico where a group of men standing around smoking cigs while 1 guy is chopping heads off of people that are tied up with a tool that was made just for this purpose. This is all tied in to the book. Just reading the first couple of chapters I know that I was going to be kept guessing till the end of the book on who the real culprit is. What I liked about the book was it wasn't your normal espionage/political book. The story is told as if you were watching a movie. Doesn't jump back and forth a lot and is written very smoothly. Love it when the good guys win fairly without any dirty tricks and the right thing is done. Only if our world can be like that.

This book starts quickly, but I almost didn’t make it to the end, so a little advice up front: Do try, since the pace picks up and the story improves toward the end. Until then, although there were interesting, exciting moments, the story mostly seemed to plod along. Too much explanation, not enough action. There are frequent intrusions into the story while the author provides information he thinks the reader needs. These range from blatant parenthetical asides while a character is “on stage” to paragraphs of background information about government agencies and their operating methods. Every time this happens, we suddenly “see” the author, which ends our immersion in the story. This is not a book you’ll get lost in. Additionally, much of what happens to the characters is telegraphed well ahead. Any character who claims to be too busy to become involved will surely become involved, any head of state who fears making a bad decision will soon make one to move the plot along, and possible romances end up right where you suspected they would as predictably as a romance novel. Dick Wolf’s writing is solid, despite the issues with style and plotting. His knowledge of the setting (New York) adds great dimension, and the plot itself is an attention grabber.

Jeremy Fisk has been cleared for police duty only it won't be the kind he was hoping for. It's United Nations Week in New York City which means he will be working Intel in aiding foreign dignitaries for their week long summit. After losing his former partner and girlfriend Krina Gersten in a terrorist plot what was discovered before it had a chance to be carried out, he still had feelings that justice had not been served the way he would have wanted. Even though the trial carried with it a guilty verdict, Fisk still wanted more than just seeing the man responsible spending life behind the bars of prison. Fate would see to it that Fisk would be allowed that brief moment to right the wrongs he felt he was due in life and no one would be able to prove he had anything to do with it. Hoping to find out just what information they could glean from Swedish Muslim terrorist Magnus Jenssen before he was locked up for good, Fisk was granted the opportunity to speak to him privately as long as he didn't physically lay a hand on him. The Feds believed that Jenssen would be smug enough to let something slip they could use to further prevent any further terrorist activity from occurring in the United States. Just because one terrorist act failed didn't mean there were not others who were working on bigger plans. Once Fisk had his words with Jenssen, he began to work on Intel for the UN Week. What he didn't expect during this time was that he would once again be called back into work when a mass of headless bodies appears on Rockaway Beach. Could this have anything to do with the recent mass murders that are plaguing the Federal Police Department in Mexico headed up by Commandante Cecilia Garza, also known as the Ice Queen. Now assigned as the Personal Security detail for the Mexican President, she begins to work with Detective Fisk to uncover a bigger terrorist plot that will place both of their presidents at risk of execution, if only they can unravel it in time. In the latest novel from Dick Wolf, the New York Times best selling author of the Intercept brings you the sequel The Execution. This one will leave you virtually hanging on every page as the threat draws closer and the body count begins to add up. The real back story is the past that both Fisk and Garza carry that refuses to let them see justice prevail despite the fact that the bad guy simply gets locked up. When things get personal, it seems that revenge in the purest sense begins to rear its head and shows that justice truly is blind in the eyes of the law and for the criminals. I love the way this one ended in a so called double standard but could see that as something I would be tempted to do as well. I'll have to let you see how it truly plays out in the end. If you love shows like Law and Order, then you will definitely want to pick this one up. I received The Execution by Dick Wolf compliments of William Morrow, a division of Harper Collins Publishers for my honest review. I did not receive any monetary compensation for a favorable review and the opinions expressed here are strictly my own. Being a huge fan of crime novels, I easily give this one a 4.5 out of 5 stars more for the ending than anything else without giving away the ending. I can't wait for more Jeremy Fisk novels from Dick Wolf in the future.

Dick Wolf, the creator of Law & Order, is back with his latest Jeremy Fisk book “The Execution.” Coming on the heels of “The Intercept,” Wolf puts Fisk back in New York during the signing of a treaty between Mexico and the United States. Wolf does an excellent job of creating a story that starts with the executions of a number of bodies on the border of the United States and Mexico. Each body has a carving of a hummingbird, giving Detective Cecilia Garza of the Mexican Federal Police force and head of security for the Mexican President while at the U.N. in New York, reason to think that an elusive figure called Chuparosa is the person responsible for the crime. Fisk, coming off the recent threat to New York, is caught in the middle when more bodies, beheaded, are found on Rockaway Beach, NY.Wolf keeps the action flowing and puts the reader on edge while crafting a story that builds with many different layers leading up to the exciting climax with a twist. Wolf, an Emmy award winning writer, producer, and creator, is now putting his stamp in the political thriller genre challenging the likes of Brad Thor and David Baldacci. Wolf is a master storyteller and it shows perfectly in “The Execution.”Reviewed by John Raab for Suspense Magazine

The genius behind the Law & Order series is now author to a thrilling new novel series. Jeremy Fisk is a well formed character who is sharp and credible. The detail in story plot will keep you reading well into the night. This story connects New York with Mexico and an underworld of crime and drug lords. Wolf like in his tv series writes commandingly with threads of real time events and politics. The violence is portrayed with explicit detail, but is not gratuitous. I highly recommend both books in the series.

One of the main characters went to my high school -- The American School in Mexico City. Pretty sweet.

In this novel, New York cop Jeremy Fisk, after thwarting a Swedish terrorist attempt, gets entangled in a plot involving a sadistic Mexican cartel operative named Chuparosa. On the Mexican side of the border, Cecilia Garza, a Mexican intelligence agent, has been hunting Chuparosa for years. Chuparosa is one of those shadowy characters, kind of like Keyser Soze from The Usual Suspects, who nobody has ever seen, and people aren’t even sure that he exists. Garza’s chase leads her to New York, during United Nations Week, where she believes Chuparosa is plotting to kill the Mexican president. There she must team up with Fisk to stop this madman.For the most part, I enjoyed this novel. I thought the characters were well developed. The plot was logical and linear. There weren’t any moments that things happened so unrealistically that it took me out of the novel. There were a couple of good twists along the way, but the big twist at the end wasn’t well explained. It seemed as if it were done for dramatic effect but didn’t fit with Chuparosa’s character, and also felt very convenient to the plot. Another thing that I didn’t much care for was when the author broke away from the plot and went into a sideways explanation written in essay style of something that didn’t fit into the narrative flow. Otherwise, this was a good novel with intrigue and drama that I would recommend. Carl Alves - author of Beyond Ragnarok

Back on duty with the NYPD Intelligence Division after saving the President's life but losing a woman he loves in the process, Jeremy Fisk finds himself in the middle of the organized chaos that is UN Week where hundreds of diplomats and their staff converge on the Big Apple. Fisk then finds himself brought into a case involving bodies dumped by a Mexican cartel on a New York beach, a massacre that puts him squarely in the middle of a case involving a legendary assassin tracking the new president of Mexico. Another complication is a tough as nails member of the Mexican security forces, Cecelia Garza, who has been pursuing the assassin and will not let anyone get in her way of taking him down.The author is the creator of the tv series Law & Order, and he brings the city of New York to life in this thriller. The story moves along at a brisk pace, with a few intriguing subplots along the way thrown in and a very satisfying conclusion that wraps up events from the first novel. I loved the characters and the story, and will definitely be picking up the third book in this trilogy.

Four stars. Missed five stars because Dick Wolf can't remember what he wrote half an hour ago (not that his editors gave him any help). Here's a sample:Page 310 of the paperback, "The barrels of the Glocks had been inserted inside the handle of a hand truck." Half a page later: "The most distinctive part--the barrels--had been set aside." No mention that they'd already been mentioned. Odd, and therefore somewhat confusing.Page 346, an old elevator is operated by a brass handle and "a spring forced [the handle] back to the off position as soon as you let go of it." Then, half a page later, the hero, Fisk, sets the elevator in motion, then jumps off and grabs the struts underneath to ride up as he's hanging below the cage. Uh, Mr. Wolf, the elevator must have stopped because of that spring you mentioned a moment ago.So I'm picky. I like it when authors keep track of what's going on. It's a matter of seeing a novel like watching a movie. I get engrossed. It's how I write my novels.

This book was phenomenal! Every single time I was reading, it was so hard to put it down. I absolutely love Dick Wolf and this was the first book of his I’ve ever read and, I have to say it was so worth it! I’m a huge fan of Law and Order: SVU so I had a good feeling about the book. But, this book definitely exceeded my expectations. Full of action, and not overly droned on about back stories that have nothing to do with plot;Another reason why it was so good! The last thing I’m going to say is, you will never see coming what happens in the end. Amazing twists!

Great action and flowed real well. Very descriptive throughout. Was so hoping that Fisk & Garza would become "an item," but with her returning to Mexico and him healing from shot in NYC . . . who knows, maybe in a future version they will!?I've seen Dick Wolf's name on all those TV Shows; it was good to actually read something that he wrote. I'll be looking through his section in the local Barnes & Noble and Library and @ any local booksales or the closest Sal Army Thriftshop (they have a whole wall of books and half wall of old VHS tapes (for my old VCRs) and DVDs).