Stuff has finally calmed down for Dar and Kerry in this third installment of the Dar and Kerry series, which of course means (since these are works of fiction) that something's going to happen and boy is this an explosive book in so many ways.

It starts with a new board member, David Ankow, who has some agenda although no one not the reader or characters are exactly sure what that agenda is. But to get his agenda through he wants to get Alastair out of the CEO chair and eventually (because of her always sunny disposition... He...) that plan involves getting rid of Dar from ILS too.

So, Dar spends some times in Houston in this book. And Kerry gets some frequent flyer miles too. There's an internal consolidation in Vermont where nothing is what it seems, and then she has to go testify in her father's trial/hearing thing (they even name her as a hostile witness).

And then at the climax of the book there's a bit of physical thriller thrown in there (as opposed to the rest of the book that's more of a corporate thriller) as well as a banking thing.

But, of course my favorite of all the subplots involved Dar's Mom, Ceci and Dad Andy. They're both such unique characters that jump off the page. And Good did a great job bringing the subplot along at a slow but steady pace and not rushing it.

My only small problem with this book was that to me the time in the hospital as I read it didn't seem like twelve hours, but much shorter.

Still, an enjoyable book. She takes what could be totally insane plots and makes them almost seem as though they could happen in real life. ( )