Sep 17, 2013.. The Final Cut has 4161 ratings and 402 reviews. Sharon said: A great start to a new series. The Final Cut is book one in a series introducing ..
› Visit Amazon's Catherine Coulter Page Find all the books, read about the author, and more. From Catherine Coulter, the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of the FBI Thriller series, and J.T. Ellison, bestselling author and ITW Award winner, comes the first book in a brilliant new international thriller series featuring a new hero: American-born, UK-raised Nicholas Drummond. Scotland Yard’s new chief inspector Nicholas Drummond is on the first flight to New York when he learns his colleague, Elaine York, the “minder” of the Crown Jewels for the “Jewel of the Lion” exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, was found murdered. Then the centerpiece of the exhibit, the infamous Koh-i-Noor Diamond, is stolen from the Queen Mother’s crown. Drummond, American-born but raised in the UK, is a dark, dangerous, fast-rising star in the Yard who never backs down. And this case is no exception. Special Agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich from Coulter’s bestselling FBI series don’t hesitate to help Drummond find the cunning international thief known as the Fox. Nonstop action and high stakes intensify as the chase gets deadly. The Fox will stop at nothing to deliver the Koh-i-Noor to the man who believes in its deadly prophecy. Nicholas Drummond, along with his partner, FBI Special Agent Mike Caine, lay it on the line to retrieve the diamond for Queen and country. THIS IS AN ADDITION TO MY ORIGINAL REVIEW, WHICH FOLLOLWS IT. A NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO HAD NEGATIVE REACTIONS TO THIS NEW SERIES ATTRIBUTED THE SLIDE IN QUALITY TO CATHERINE COULTER'S CO-AUTHOR, J. T. ELLISON. I'd LIKE TO SAY THAT I THINK IT'S THE OTHER WAY AROUND. HAVING JUST FINISHED READING POWERPLAY, THE MOST RECENT ENTRY IN THE FBI SERIES, I THEN MOVED ON TO A BOOK WRITTEN BY ELLISON. THE SUPERIORITY OF ELLISON'S WRITING IS STRIKING. FROM A PROSAIC STANDPOINT, ELLISON HAS A FAR RICHER, MORE VERSATILE VOCABULARY AND A MORE SOPHISTICATED FACILITY FOR USING LANGUAGE. THE STRUCTURE OF HER BOOK IS INTRIGUING. AND HER CHARACTERS ACTUALLY TALK TO EACH OTHER NATURALLY, LIKE REAL PEOPLE. BY CONTRAST, I AM CONTINUALLY STRUCK BY HOW UNNATURAL THE CONVERSATIONS SOUND IN COULTER'S BOOKS. HER USE OF WORDS AND PHRASING IS OFTEN BEYOND AWKWARD. SO IT'S REALLY UNFAIR TO BLAME ELLISON FOR THE PROBLEMS IN THE BRIT BOOKS. NOT HER FAULT. ORIGINAL REVIEW: I'm so disappointed. I adore the FBI series that Catherine Coulter writes so had high expectations for this book. Given that it's the start of a new series, it would have been smart to pace the introduction of the key characters and then weave in others in a way that helps the reader keep them straight. But I'm up to page 154 and the way characters pop up and then drop out and then pop back up again makes me think of a Marx Brothers movie. Several times I had to page backward to figure out, "Who is this guy, again?" It all has a disconnected feel and I have no sense so far of the characters really relating to each other in any tangible way. Additionally, these early pages, which take place in New York, read as if written by someone who has never been to New York and didn't do careful enough research. There is one point where a taxi driver reports that he has gone through the "Connecticut border booth" on the way to New Haven. No New York cabbie would call it that. A New York cabbie would say he has passed the tolls in New Rochelle, or passed the tolls at the start of the New England (Thruway), or just passed New Rochelle -- but would certainly not refer to a Connecticut "border booth". There is also mention of a Metropolitan Museum docent moving up to the position of curator of a major exhibition in a matter of months. Not possible! In fact, to anyone who knows anything about the museum, it's just absurd to the point of being downright silly. The museum is a highly desirable and notoriously difficult pace to find employment and a promotion of this magnitude? Not in this lifetime. A knowledgeable reader has to suspend disbelief in a big way to swallow this. Judging by their writing, the authors have apparently never been to Britain either. The English vernacular seems awkward and unnatural and just not the way an Englishman would speak. The authors suggest that having been employed by the Foreign Office in Great Britain is generally understood to mean having been a spy. This is tantamount to suggesting that anyone employed by the US State Department is a spy. True, MI-6 (the British equivalent of the CIA in the US), does report to the British Foreign Secretary (their counterpart to our Secretary of State). However, several different agencies, including embassies and consulates, also fall under the jurisdiction of the Foreign Office and the Foreign Office is, in itself, certainly not a spy agency. In addition, the plot -- at least as much as I've read of it -- seems frenetic and haphazard and a little Keystone Cops. Not to mention a number of aspects that sorely stretch credibility. And that's just in the first 100 pages! The book reads as if it were written in a hurry and as if it were insufficiently, and perhaps, sloppily, researched. It should have been put aside for a few weeks so the authors could get some distance and perspective, and then reread, rewritten and tightened up. And I find myself wondering where was the editor in all this? Another Amazon reviewer noted that she found it easy to put the book aside to continue reading later. My feeling exactly. While the FBI books hold my attention and I pretty much gobble them up, I'm finding myself reading this in nibbles. Hope, if there will be more entries to come, that the follow-up books will be up to a higher standard. Books are too expensive now for readers to be this disappointed. I just came back to add to this review the fact that, after reading a little further, I've just given up. Life is too short to waste time reading books that bore me. Read more › The Lost Key (A Brit in the FBI, Book 2) by Catherine Coulter Kindle Edition 4.5 out of 5 stars (1,011)
Catherine Coulter and J.T. Ellison are joining forces in their new book THE FINAL CUT, which will launch a fascinating new spin-off series for their respective ..
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Jul 29, 2013.. Bestseller Coulter (Bombshell) teams with Ellison (Edge of Black) on a thriller that manages to be both intricate and full of jaw-dropping action ..
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Sep 17, 2013.. We have double the author interview fun today as we chat with Catherine Coulter and J.T. Ellison, co-authors of 'The Final Cut,' out today.
