Dark Deeds by Mike BrooksMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Jacket Blurb: In the third book of the “entertaining” (Kirkus Reveiws) Keiko series, Captain Ichabod Drift and his crew find themselves in another mess as a ship-wide vacation leads to their second-in-command taken hostage by the planet’s criminal mastermind.
After the riotous civil war in Dark Sky, the crew of the Keiko decides to go on vacation at an illegal gambling port for a little fun. What they don’t realize is that the casinos are run by an ex-client who didn’t get his shipment due to the war. The mob boss decides to take Tamara Rouke, the Keiko’s second-in-command, and hold her hostage until the crew raises enough money to pay him back for the lost shipment. If they don’t pay up in time, Rouke will be killed.
Captain Ichabod Drift and his crew agree. But as they find a way to get the funds, one will betray everyone and one will die…
Read for June book group - except for me because I got June and July books mixed up.
Book three in the Keiko series, where the crew of the Keiko find themselves back at the mercy of the gangster? Mob boss? Orlov, that they inadvertently pissed off in a previous book. Orlov takes Tamara Rourke hostage and demands Drift comes up with the money Orlov lost in their previous dealings. Drift hatches a crazy plan and everything goes wrong.
Folks compare this to just about any other popular series with a ruggedly good-looking captain and a ethnically diverse crew, but where this deviates from other popular series is this was darker and a tich more violent than the previous two books. It lacked the light-heartedness typically found in this particular sub-genre. Dark Deeds had it's moments of quirky replies and off the cuff remarks, but when taken as a whole, it was on the darker side of things.
Was it still entertaining? Absolutely. Was the ending what I expected? Not remotely. And that's what I enjoyed about this one. I like to be surprised.
Recommended if you like space opera. Definitely start with book number one - Dark Run.
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