I loved this book, it helped me get many free samples of software, food, coupons for stores, and other fun things for free. I am looking forward to see more books from the author some day.

This book is a classic "hands on" audit reference; written with the same "how to" style as "Operational Profitability". I highly recommend this book.

The premise behind this book is very good. Capture a Cuban terrorist who arrives in the US, but make it look like something else. The "something else" becomes a hotel robbery that goes bad and the Cuban winds up being taken as a hostage. However, the hotel heist really does go bad and the Cuban escapes, along with ten million dollars in diamonds. Teddy Tedesco, ex-New York cop, must find the terrorist before he releases a deadly air-borne virus at a political convention in New York City.

As I said, the premise and the plot are quite good and convoluted. Just when you think you have the whole thing figured out Mr. Patrick throws another monkey wrench into the deal and you're off in another direction. However, I had a hard time finishing this book. Mr.Patrick is a very low-key writer and at times the writing fails to generate the excitement the plot calls for. It's not a bad book, far from it, but it didn't grip me with the same intensity of say a James Lee Burke novel.

I question Mr. Patrick's research not to mention his editors. There is nothing worse than reading along at a fast clip and hitting a speed bump, such as finding a sentence where a young Italian boy is saying goodnight to his elderly Italian neighbor by saying "Buena notte" A serious literary speed bump, especially for something as basic as 'goodnight'! AND...A Spanish-speaking man who received a childhood nickname because he was skinny would probably not call himself 'Flocko'. Flaco, maybe, but Flocko? I doubt it. And an Italian-speaking bank robber, who the plot reveals learned Spanish in prison, overhears a conversation in Spanish where someone says that the 'cosas' are in upstate New York. He recounts the conversation to his partner, saying he wasn't sure what the word 'cosas' meant. Well , if he knew some Spanish, as we were told a few chapters earlier, he would have no problem with this word. And as if that isn't ridiculous enough, cosas means the same thing in Italian as it does in Spanish. Apparently somebody was asleep on the job when this was in the edit stages. I found Smoke Screen to be entertaining, for the most part, although I do agree with one of the other customer reviews which complains about tangents in the plot, such as the Asian gang and the 'cosa nostra' and Russian mob stuff which is never really developed. It is a fun read. But not stellar.

Top notch thriller, mystery. It is very realistic and true to its subject matter. One mistake is on page 223 at the top, where it refers to taking a Glock pistol off safety. Glocks have no safety in the conventional sense, and there is nothing to take off. The only safety is the unique trigger, which is an automatic safety of sorts. This is my first time to read a book by Mr. Patrick, and it will not be my last.

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New York mob books are a dime a dozen but that doesn't mean they ain't fun. I'm telling you, man, that this is the funnest book you could hope to read in your lifetime. No farting around with belletristic descriptions, no long diatribes on "The Code of La Cosa Nostra"...just good-time lowlife fun. Regular shmucks trying to get a break for chrissakes. Paulie is absolutely adorable with his ineptitude and the villain "Bed Bug" Grant is a fearsome clown. Super book.

The characters you love to hate! Each one is deep. THe story grabs you and won't let go. Has this man written anything else?

I and my younger son are collectors of International pickups. We found this book to be very informative about the light trucks of International Harvester. The information was based on improvements made to each model year and material about how well each model sold. An good companion book would be International Trucks (CRESTLINE) by F.W.Crismon

I found this book to be highly informative in the history of International's trucks. I was disappointed, however, that the author did not have the majority of the book focusing on the Scout. It was the Scout that is the most popular of IH's rigs but the author left a short section in the back about the Scouts. I was also disappointed that it did not have color pictures. Overall, the book is a great history and it includes some interesting old truck ads.

excellent book with good attration for readers

Montgomery's Auditing, 2001 is just a supplement to the 1998 version. You need both the 1998 version plus the 2001 to be current. I would prefer to have it all in one book.