Black Jack: A Jack Sabre Thriller: Volume 1 (Jack Sabre Crime Series) Paperback – 24 Jan 2014

Right from the off, Black Jack has you intrigued. How could you not be with the line "In my ten years in the Denver police force, I never thought I'd set out to murder someone."A line like that has you hooked and it does what all good books do - drags you kicking and screaming right into the story. You want to know why a fine officer of the law has such deadly intentions.You do learn the answer to that pretty quickly and it gives you empathy for Jack Sabre that you might not otherwise have had for the angry, out of control, take no prisoners renegade cop.With crisp dialogue and vivid descriptions, Terry Wright's story has you reading at breakneck pace to discover what happens next.Littered with violence - this ain't Little House on the Prairie - you get sucked into the story and are carried along like a cannonball to the twist of an ending.A highly recommended read, especially for fans of vigilante fiction.

This novel starts out with a bloody and violent confrontation, twists like a roller coaster at the next moment, then plunges straight down and at breakneck speed. The pace never lets up. Jack Sabre is a foul-mouthed, angry Denver homicide detective who barrels through his case like an enraged bull in a very small china shop. Every twist of the plot in his attempts to regain his badge and solve the murder of his wife are spattered with gore and death and yet are perfectly plotted to sustain intensity and never give up the final twist ending.Terry Wright has crafted a tightly woven thriller with characters that I grew to love, including Mina Finetree, Mrs. Vallinski, Helen Hodges, and a couple of down-and-out barflys. I even managed to gain some affection for Jack Sabre himself, a one-man wrecking ball who manages to get more people killed in his vicinity than a dozen other noir novels put together. If you like your thrillers well-written, tightly plotted and full of action, I've got your noir right here. I highly recommend Black Jack.

I'm not much of a reader of this gritty crime drama genre. But I enjoyed this one. It moved at a fast clip, but the pacing was solid with moments of relative calm between the bam-slam action. I liked the injuries to the hero weren't brushed aside. His knee injury in particular gave this story a good element of realism. The only thing missing was the hero getting grazed by a bullet.The variety of characters made for a lively cast. You couldn't tell who was a good guy or bad guy until well into the story. The mixing helped keep this reader's interest. One bad guy (or girl) you could almost see coming, but it's not until the end that this is confirmed.One thing I didn't like was the way everyone kept saying to the protagonist, "You wouldn't understand," or "You don't know what's going," in the beginning. The story would have been stunted if they did break it down for our hero, but the way that kept happening got old pretty quick, especially after body count started piling up. For the sake of the innocent by-standers, someone spill the beans already! But when someone thinks they know best and keeps secrets, I guess it gets bloody real quick.Anyway, I'm not very familiar with this genre, but I think you can do a lot worse. Pick yourself up a copy and enjoy!

This book would be a fun summer read for fans of noir fiction, and for fans of the more urban areas of Denver.Violent, reactive, short-tempered, alcoholic, and none-too-bright, the eponymous Black Jack Sabre is out to avenge the murder of his wife. But he's a bull in a china shop - the china shop being all of Denver - and he tends to make things worse rather than better. Jack comes from the school of crime-solving that says bust heads first, ask questions later. When he isn't imagining himself as James Dean or Peter Fonda cruising down the highway on his motorcycle in his leathers and shades, he's punching, shooting, or crashing his way through any obstacle in his path to vengeance. If not for two female friends of his dead wife and the surprisingly forgiving mother of a thug Jack killed in the mistaken belief that he was the long-sought murderer, Jack would never get any closer to exposing the true brazen conspiracy behind his wife's death, and the deaths of so many others. As it is, he eventually makes progress more in spite of himself than out of any real sleuthing.For residents or fans of central Denver, the writer goes to great pains to place us in known and even in some cases well-known environs within the city. It's clear he's trolled these streets and back alleys himself more than once.All in all, for those looking for a great read to add to your Kindle summer reading list, this would be a great addition. It is a fun ride. Jack gets to do what so many of us would like to do to people who piss us off. It's wonderfully cathartic to live through Jack's crusade and crack the skulls of bad men right alongside him. Take Black Jack to the beach or poolside and get a tan while getting a real kick out of Jack's adventure! I highly recommend it!

Wanting to try a completely different type of genre, I downloaded a copy of Black Jack... and was surprised at how much I enjoyed this novel! Black Jack is a thriller from beginning to end, and kept me on the edge of my chair from the first page. I flew through this book over a couple of days, loving the way the Jack Sabre character developed throughout the book. I now have a new favorite hero! Fun read -- I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in a shoot-em-up, good guy vs bad guy type of book.

Fast moving. Murders all over the place. Nonstop. If you want to live, stay away from Black Jack! A word of warning: the killer is not caught. This was written in 2014 and I saw no sequel. Might be a spoiler of sorts, but no way does it tell anyone about the twisted plot and twisted killer!