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(More customer reviews)Karl Boyd shares quite a story in The Nearly Perfect Plan and readers get a crime drama that keeps them guessing to the very end. And the good news is that there are two more adventures being written for a trilogy of thrillers. All three books revolve around the characters of Roger Booth and Carl James, two young and ambitious "con" men.
This is not a "Who dunnit?" story because the reader gets to see both sides of the crime scene, from inside and then from the side of the police and FBI. It is more of a "Holy cow (or in this case a bull), how did they manage to pull this one off?" type of drama. Roger and Carl are able to enlist the help of twenty of their ex-Army buddies to pull off a "perfect plan" that seems to be just that, until the very end of the book. The story revolves around setting up the Crossed X Ranch and using it as a legitimate business to cover up all of the goings-on to pull off a few Brinks' heists.
This book is a perfect match for readers who enjoy getting into the characters' minds and are always trying to figure out the mystery of it all. Karl Boyd does a great job of creating a masterful crime plan and he keeps the authorities at bay, as are the readers. In the end, "good" wins out over "evil," or does it?
In an interview of Mr. Boyd that I read on his website ([...]) I discovered that he gets a lot of his inspiration for his writing from his dreams. Being an elementary teacher who wakes up from dreams with great lesson plans rolling in my mind, I can truly understand that. What I am thankful about is that Mr. Boyd WRITES about his dream inspirations and doesn't act them out! The other inspiration that I personally received from him is that he only began to seriously write at the age of sixty-five. I am thoroughly looking forward to reading his other novels.


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Roger Odem Booth and Carl Jesse James are two young aspiring confidence men who, (up to now), have been satisfied with pulling off smalltime shell games throughout the state of Texas.While discussing their first foray into crime, Carl wonders whether they have the where-with-all to play their mark to the end. When he asks Roger that question, Roger says, 'Yes, we can"; and Carl responds with a bad pun", 'Don't you mean; ‘Yes, we 'con'?"And so the trilogy begins:On a gambling trip to the Sandia Casino near Albuquerque, New Mexico, by chance, they stumble upon the Perfect Plan to hijack a Brinks armored truck and make it disappear from the open highway in broad daylight in a matter of minutes.Not content with just one robbery, the mastermind, Roger, decides to knock off three armored vehicles within a ten day period.Everything goes as planned, but while his gang of thirty ex-Army buddies is celebrating their victory over the law enforcement agencies of two states and the FBI, the fickle finger of fate steps in and they are captured.During the subsequent trial, the Perfect Plan soon becomes known as 'The Nearly Perfect Plan", but, as you will see, sometimes, if you are clever and resourceful, 'nearly" is close enough.Filled with thrills, adventure and lighthearted hi-jinks, plus a small dose of romance, 'The Nearly Perfect Plan" will leave you longing for more adventures with Roger, Carl and their gang.--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

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