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Michigan born and Chicago raised Randall has made the San Francisco Bay Area his home with his wife for the last 45 years A graduate of Michigan State with a degree in landscape architecture Mr Randall has 45 years of community design and urban planning experience He has his own design firm Randall Planning Design Inc. Book Saigon redeem and has designed hundreds of residential commercial and retail properties throughout the western United States Mr Randall has enjoyed writing for many years but it has become a serious vocation in the last twenty years His books almost always have an historical component and often reflect how the past has impacts on the present Randall has developed all the cover cart for his books as well as the interior desig Michigan born and Chicago raised Randall has made the San Francisco Bay Area his home with his wife for the last 45 years A graduate of Michigan State with a degree in landscape architecture Mr Randall has 45 years of community design and urban planning experience He has his own design firm Randall Planning Design Inc. Saigon Red epub file and has designed hundreds of residential commercial and retail properties throughout the western United States Mr Randall has enjoyed writing for many years but it has become a serious vocation in the last twenty years His books almost always have an historical component and often reflect how the past has impacts on the present Randall has developed all the cover cart for his books as well as the interior design graphics and overall formatting This also includes ebook formatting. Book Saigon redfin Greg is the author of the five book series The Sharon O Mara Chronicles The six book in the series is under development He is also developing the third book in the Detective Tony Alfano thriller noir series set in 1933 Chicago The first book in the series Chicago Swing won the Silver Medal in the 2016 Global Ebook Awards The second Chicago Jazz is now available His edgy young adult novel Elk River has won acclimation and awards from the Independent Book Publishers Association IBPA and Northern California Book Publishers Association BAIPA Mr Randall and his wife have their own independent publishing company Windsor Hill Publishing He is a book cover designer and artist and is well versed in the ebook conversion process All of his books are available through the usual sources. Saigon redq sepang COM site_link An ex cop goes to the far side of the world to discover her family s darkest secrets Believed complicit in her ex husband s prison escape Cleveland police detective Alex Polonia is methodically being forced out of the department Not waiting she does them one better and resigns taking on a new profession as a special agent for an international security firm Her first bodyguard for the family of Nevio Lucchese a wealthy Italian industrialist relocating to Ho Chi Minh City But Vietnam is where Alex s unknown past casts a dark shadow and a mysterious assassin could be hiding in it Known only as the Ghost he kills with drone like precision and eludes all attempts at capture Most disturbingly he may hold the key to a love that Alex s father lost fifty years earlier Now caught in a dangerous and personal game Alex must outwit the Ghost to save the Lucchese family and her own family s reputation But when Alex s ex husband suddenly shows up she fears that the entire operation could fail and that the real enemy is disturbingly close Saigon Red Alex Polonia Thriller 2 Fans of Alex Polonia won t be disappointed Saigon Red tosses Alex into the high stakes and high risk world of private security and multi national criminal organizations Her first assignment involves babysitting the family of a corporate executive on their new posting in Vietnam Alex soon finds the family in the crosshairs of an international assassin and as she struggles to keep the family safe nothing is as it seems Her friends her career even her own family are irretrievably changed by what she uncovers in Saigon Saigon Red has that crisp dialogue that I ve come to expect in a Gregory C Randall novel The plot and conclusion make for a page turning thriller Highly recommended 5 Stars English This is a Kindle e book that I received through a Goodreads Giveaway While this is the second book in the series it worked as a standalone novel I do plan to read the first in the series when I can find the time The only reason this was not rated 5 stars is that the style of writing switched back and forth between several points of view While they all came together eventually it is not my favorite writing style The novel has action espionage international crime mystery and suspense The main character shows depth and growth during the course of her adventure For those that like technology you won t be disappointed as there are some interesting developments during the book Additionally there were lots of twists and turns that kept me hooked throughout this fast moving book English Gregory Randall takes you on a head spinning journey across the globe where secrets are sacred and family ties are deeper and deadly than you can ever imagine Buckle up You re in for one heck of a ride English I have lived in Vietnam for many years and whenever I come across an English language book set in Vietnam that isn t just Yet Another Vietnam War Memoir I tend to pick it up and give it a chance. Saigon Red ebook As my 1 star indicates this was not good I came to this for the Vietnam setting so let me just get this out of the way first nothing about the Saigon setting rang true for me It just didn t feel right. Book Saigon redeem Some of it is just outright wrong he calls it Kinh Thanh Da canal But Kinh means canal It should be Thanh Da canal Same for Cau Thu Bridge Cau means bridge so it should be Thu Bridge Except there is no Thu Bridge in Saigon I think he means Thu Thiem Bridge here Similarly Cau Phu My Bridge should be Phu My Bridge. Saigon redzo Some of it isn t impossible I suppose but just feelsextremely unlikely Like some security guards driving a Humvee in District 7 Why would they bother to import one It barely fits on most of the streets I ve never seen a Humvee here. Saigon redrover The software company is doing testing in Vietnam because of the density of high speed motorbikes on Saigon s streets which is just laughable for anyone who has ever driven here The speed limit is 40kpm 25mph and you re usually lucky to be going 30kph 18mph due to traffic Nothing high speed about it. Book Saigon redbox A police detective mentions a couple of murders from gang activity in District 3 District 3 is one of the richest areas full of restaurants and offices Several murders there especially from gangs would be pretty shocking Not to mention murders are a lot rarer here than in the US Several murders in the same area would be extremely high profile Not something just sitting on his back burner. Mystery Saigon red sox Claims that District 7 are Saigon s main port that it was built by Americans during the war that it was the largest port in Southeast Asia District 7 is a new development it didn t get developed until 1996 it used to be swampland I think maybe he means District 4 Or maybe Binh Thanh I m not actually sure what he s talking about to be honest. Saigon resort phu quoc The claim that when murdered people are foreigners the police don t really pursue the case The dead were not Vietnamese and as such fell into an investigative limbo Usually it is the opposite since murdered foreigners are all over the news. Book Saigon redwood Several times a Vietnamese person tells an American not to call it Saigon call it Ho Chi Minh City We Vietnamese prefer Ho Chi Minh City Everyone calls in Saigon in casual conversation No one will ever correct you for calling it Saigon The government launched a waterbus service along the rivers and canals a few years ago called Saigon Waterbus. EBook Saigon red He describes Tan Son Nhat airport as In many ways it looked like a modern American airport except nicer and far elegant No one who has ever been to Tan Son Nhat would call it nicer or elegant. Saigon Red kindle store They go to Ben Thanh market According to the internet they have the best street food and clothing I ll give the author a slight pass on this because it is possible the internet says something ridiculous like that No one who has been in Saigon than 5 minutes would say Ben Thanh market has the best food or clothing It is a tourist trap of overpriced Chinese t shirts that no one who lives here ever goes to. Saigon Red suspense definition Ben Thanh market is described as almost a direct shot south from their apartment But when they are driving to their apartment from the airport we are told they cross the Thu Thiem Bridge So that means they are east of Ben Thanh market not north. Book Saigon redbox The Vietnamese policeman does all kinds of super weird things He doesn t drink coffee he drinks tea In Saigon that is super weird Who drinks tea I ve never met anyone who drinks tea in Saigon unless they mean Taiwanese bubble tea. Book Saigon redeem And possibly the weirdest thing in the entire book the policeman walks 30 minutes from the police station to a hotel where he is meeting someone No one walks here They definitely don t walk 30 minutes He would take a Grab or something And then he orders a Budweiser beer Weird. Book Saigon red sox Okay I went a bit overboard there Needless to say I was extremely extremely extremely disappointed with the depiction of Vietnam If you re coming to this book for Vietnam vibes just don t. Saigon restaurant topeka ks But what about the rest of the book Is there something salvageable here There is a bunch of meaningless gobbledygook software was stolen that allowed financial organizations to manipulate bitcoins and Even in today s world data can easily be hidden I may be in my forties but even I ve heard of the cloud and blockchain It would be easy to keep this information out of the hands of a group like this I have no idea what manipulate bitcoins even means Or how using the blockchain would keep data out of the hands of bad guys. Book Saigon redeem Then there s the plot Which for a thriller moves at a glacial pace Half the book is spent with Alex interviewing for a new job going for a few weeks of new hire training going on some dates with her boyfriend having dinner with her family She doesn t actually get to Saigon and the book actually resumes with any real plot until the 50% mark It was surprisingly boring. Saigon Red thriller album At one point Alex is talking with her family about the Balkans I thought we had trouble in Cleveland but for people in that part of the world when you combine the Bosnian War and seven hundred years of hate our difficulties seem trivialThen later Alex thought about her nieces and nephews and came to the conclusion that kids were pretty much the same in the United States and Europe. Saigon redrover At one point while looking over some reports on DNA analysis Alex says I ve been trained by the best The best While you were working at Cleveland PD for 20 years The best is in Cleveland And what does the CIA agent reply to her analysis of the DNA report Chris looked at Javier Is what she is saying about the DNA correct Yeah maybe Hell I don t know You re telling the DNA people at the CIA were outsmarted by this Cleveland cop Everything in this whole scene was just so stupid. Saigon redq airasia But the part that made me actually put the book down for good Alex s dad was in the Vietnam War He fell in love with a Vietnamese girl and wanted to marry her But he gets shot in the head and develops amnesia and forgets all about her By the time he starts remembering her he can t find her He moves back to the US marries someone else and life goes on Turns out she was pregnant so Alex has a long lost half brother in Vietnam And her half brother has a wayward son who is The Bad Guy of the book That s right it is Alex s long lost nephew who is the main Bad Guy English This novel the second in the Alex Polonia series is a follow up to the successful Venice Black This time the protagonist Alex takes the reader to Ho Chin Minh City formerly Saigon She s an engaging tough no nonsense heroine working for a Blackwater type organization who is sent to Saigon to solve a problem with international implications This Bondish thriller has continual twists to keep one reading Very entertaining with the villains appropriately evil and cunning and the plot lines keeping one guessing The physical descriptions especially of Saigon are on the mark A fun read This series has legs English

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Saigon RedWell written with intriguing plot twists Having served in Vietnam I can easily see the connections Mr Randall presents It was a very confusing time for relationships Nice to read that some turned out well English From a career destroying mess in Cleveland to a boot camp in Texas for a security firm to beginning her first assignment in Italy with the destination of the former Saigon now Ho Chi Minh City smart and savvy Alex finds herself involved in corporate espionage and high tech assassins The pace is fast and intense with a few breathers the characters engaging the technology fascinating and the suspense critical The secondary plot revolves around her family a CIA social interest the felonious ex husband and insinuates itself into the main plot quite deviously It s a real thrill ride I requested and received a free ebook copy from Thomas and Mercer via NetGalley Thank you English I ve been in and out of Saigon for decades and I can tell you that Greg Randall has crafted a thriller that feels and smells like the reality of that enigmatic and often times puzzling city If you like your thrillers dripping with atmosphere SAIGON RED is the book for you English Good mysteryI only chose this book because my son just moved to Saigon and I wanted to learn a bit of the city It was a good mystery and the afterward told a small history of Vietnam English I wrote a review here English .

. Saigon Red book Americans in Saigon are carrying an assault rifle and pistols Guns are so heavily controlled here it is pretty hard to imagine the government allowing foreigners to carry them, Book Saigon redstate There s a police helicopter in the first chapter The police don t have helicopters here, Book Saigon redbox Mention about a warehouse in District 7 being graffiti free is surprising for this part of the city But District 7 is one of the nicest up scale areas of town: Book Saigon redeem But surprisingly none of that was actually the worst part The worst part was just that so much of the dialogue that somehow always fell flat and never conveyed emotion.BLOGS site_link WWW.WRITING4DEATH.BLOGSPOT.COM site_link WWW.COGITOURBANUS.BLOGSPOT.COMWEBB SITE site_link WWW.GREGORYCRANDALL.INFO site_link WWW.GREGORYCRANDALL