The [i] Knight’s Tour: A Morrow's Con Story [/i] is the second book in the Morrow's Con series written by Earl James. In this book, the author presents the story of Morrow and how he tries to defraud a Wall Street business executive and an oil company based in Phoenix. The first few chapters discuss how Morrow and his teammates successfully conned Carter Hanley a million dollars by faking the auction of the Krakatoa Vase at a rented mansion. In this gig, the team plays perfectly using fake names, and Hanley does not suspect a thing. In the end, they split the money and proceed to the next con involving Langley Oil. Morrow secures a deal from the company to find their four missing employees, who were accused of stealing twenty-six million dollars. The team starts their investigation in Phoenix, and this leads them to the wives of the four missing men. The story turns out that their husbands had been framed by Langley Oil because they had discovered that the company was selling oil to drug cartels in Mexico. Morrow, being the team leader, decides to believe the women’s stories and distrusts Langley Oil. He makes them their new clients and embarks on a mission to find their missing husbands. Meanwhile, the company unveils a plan to eliminate the missing persons and their wives, Morrow’s team, and other staff members who knew about the dealings with drug cartels. Therefore, everywhere and every attempt that Morrow’s team, along with the four wives, makes to find Langley Oil’s employees, the company’s hit squad makes encounters with them. They move with cars and boats to hotels, airports, seaports, and other meeting places while Langley Oil’s goons follow them almost every step of their way. They go that way from town to town until finally, they manage to decapitate the company. The three husbands and four wives eventually get back into their lives at home. A lawyer named Suze alias Anita Kane pursues a legal case against Langley Oil, and in the process, she gets a deal where the four employees get six million dollars each. Morrow gets some of the money and pays his crew. Then, they all celebrate the victory at a party.
There are numerous positive aspects of the book but what I like the most is the arrangement of events in the story and how they fit in different settings. Earl has made sure that action takes place in airports, the sea, roads, the safe house, the Langley building, hotels, shopping malls, etc. Every time there is action, time is also indicated. The other positive aspect of the book is the vivid description of characters and their actions on the roads and seaways such that the readers can visualize the events and feel like they are watching a movie. For example, the author uses terms such as very large, physically fit, a mountain of a man, and neatly dressed to describe the characters in a way that matches their roles in the story. The book is like an action movie because of how they fight with arms, grabbing each other in secluded places, firing gunshots, and chasing each other with cars. Most of the characters stay in for the action for the larger part of the story and they don’t die. Therefore, if you like a character at the beginning, you would be excited to follow them up until the end.
Regarding the negative aspects, I noted a few spelling and grammatical mistakes in the book. However, those few mistakes would not have prevented readers from understanding the story. The only sexual content is when Morrow went with Madison to a hotel where they kissed and took their shirts off as if ready to get intimate, but it was not explicit. Also, regarding profanity, I noted the use of inappropriate words like hell, asswipe, rat’s ass, and fuckers among others. The characters have used vulgar language in some instances, but that would not be surprising considering that the book is about running a con.
My rating of the book would be based on the number of positive aspects versus the negative ones. For example, the strengths of the story are about five while the weaknesses are three. Therefore on a rating of 1-5, it would be reasonable to give this book [b] 3 out of 5 stars. [/b]
I would recommend the book to people who like reading action-packed stories where there is fist fighting, car racing on the streets, and gunfights. Those readers who like characters with fighting attributes and the ability to manipulate others to get what they want would love this book. Also, if anyone likes books with stories of true events and not mystical narratives, I bet they would like [i] Morrow’s Con Story [/i], as well.
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