Money Run
by Jack Health
Rating 4/5 stars
This book had
everything you could possibly want: action, adventure, mystery, assassins,
thieves, billionaires, gadgets, and humor. The novel tells the story of fifteen
year old thief Ashley "Ash" Arthur and her friend Benjamin. Ash and
Ben are professional thieves who receive mysterious tips from someone known as
"the source" who tells them when and where valuable things will be
the most easy to steal. But when they take on the job of robbing Hammond
Buckland, one of American's richest men, they have no idea what they've gotten
themselves into. Ash, you see, is not the only person with an interest in
Buckland. Peachey the assassin wants to put a bullet in Buckland, and he won't
let anyone stand in his way. In one night, Ash is thrust into the fight of her
life and she has to decide what kind of thief she will be. Along the way she is
swept up into a whirlwind of action, suspense, and conspiracies.
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First off, Ash
is a great protagonist. She's smart, sarcastic, and insensibly likable. She's a
thief with a conscious, and she's just 15, so she's struggling like any
teenager in finding what it is she wants to do and what she's good at. In her
case, it turns out being a thief is what she's very good at. Right alongside
Ash is her tech support Benjamin, who, although never actually present during
the story, is made very real by his snarky dialogue. Then of course, we have
our villain: Peachey. Once you get passed the name, he turns out to be a likable
villain, which is not always an easy thing to accomplish. These are the main
characters, but several others appear and all are well written, like the
millionaire Hammond Buckland and Detective Damion Wright. Admittedly, some of
the characters are a little one dimensional. But in the case of many of them,
the one dimensionality is exactly what is needed.
