Bad Guys is an old-school detective thriller featuring an odd couple like paring of FBI agents out to stop a secret mafia family. While the book doesn’t give us anything we haven’t seen before at least what it does it does competently. A rouge agent out for justice and his partner trying to bring him back from the brink is about as cookie cutter as you can get. And while both characters are like a how-to instruction for making cops in a thriller novel they are also both very likeable. The loyalty Gibbons and Tozzi show each other is endearing and the interplay between them is usually pretty entertaining. The plot itself moves forward at a brisk pace as it checks off the cop vs. mafia checklist. Plot twists layered on top of each other. Check. Tons of New Jersey jokes and references. Check. Low-life crooks. Check. Once again however,… Read more »
