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Chris Bunch's The Gangster Conspiracy: A Star Risk, Ltd., Novel Kindle Edition

by Steve Perry (Author), Dal Perry (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
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After their old headquarters were demolished by a competing security firm, the Star Risk, Ltd. team moved into swanky new offices. Unfortunately, there haven’t been any customers to impress—until the Reverend Josiah Williams drops by.
 
He represents a group of oppressed union workers from the planet Aretegal, and he would like the team to put a stranglehold on all shipping in the area. He also offers them a check for one million credits, which doesn’t hurt.
 
But where Star Risk goes, trouble follows. And before long, the rogues of Star Risk are forced to ask; what good are a million credits if you aren’t alive to spend it?
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    341 pages
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    Ace
  5. Publication date
    July 3, 2007
  6. Reading age
    18 years and up
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    660 KB
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A rogue clergyman offers security firm Star Risk big bucks to liberate a planetary system by blockading its trade—that is, by practicing piracy. Although reasonably short of scruples, the company likes being alive when paid, and that is problematic because not just gangsters are hatching conspiracies in the vicinity. The Perrys, father and son, prove first-class at matching the late Chris Bunch's blend of fast action, intelligent military detail, and engaging, sometimes larger-than-life characters. If Bunch's action-sf and action-fantasy sagas are to be continued by the Perrys and other, similarly adroit hands, readers are in for a lot more cracking good entertainment. Green, Roland

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B001QL5MM8
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ace (July 3, 2007)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 3, 2007
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 660 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 341 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars 31 ratings

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Steve Perry

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I'm married, got kids, grandkids, dogs, all like that. Ex-hippie, long-time martial artist, duffer on the guitar.

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Gary D. Stevens
5.0 out of 5 stars Back to the basics
Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2013
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As the Star Risk series continued the team faced bigger and bigger challenges. I really enjoyed the way that Steve and Dal Perry went back to the basics with the way they put this together. I think they did an excellent job of picking up the characters personalities. I came into this book not really expecting a good read, thankfully i was wrong. I hope that the Bunch estate and the Perry's pick up the story again at some point.

Chris you will be missed by so many of us that couldnt wait for your next book. You need not to worry about this one, Dal and Steve did you proud.
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4.0 out of 5 stars not bad
Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2007
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A quick read that was entertaining and it was nice to read Star Risk in action again.

However, I thought the characterization was a little off. Another review nailed it. The thing that bothered me the most was Jasmine. She was some kind of professional knife fighter/super spy that was an expert in explosives. It has been a while since I read the last book but when did this happen?

By itself was a good book and I am still happy that I got to read one more even though it wasn't Bunch.

I think this book was meant to be a closure for the series. I don't anticipate another one. Maybe Perry will do a spin-off
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Karen A. Griffin
5.0 out of 5 stars Nice, very nice
Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2007
Sometimes when an author (or authors) takes on the responsibility of continuing a series that a deceased author has started, the results can be problematic. Actually they can be gawdawful. Some of the Austen, Conan Doyle and Sayers continuations leap to mind (and are quickly repressed). I was particularly concerned since even though Star Risk is an old friend of mine, I had recently discovered and read all the Sten novels. As a result I was very familiar with Chris Bunch's style and deft touch.
But I needn't have worried (and neither should you) since the Perrys deliver magnificently. The characterizations, the wry humor, the plot line and the action sequences were all handled beautifully. I feel that two points are key to the authors' excellent work. First is that the whole book seamlessly blended in with the previous Star Risk novels so you got the idea that the Perrys had actually sat down and read Chris Bunch's work. This book is not some kind of cheap clone, it is more like the Perrys are skilled and experienced authors who can enter into the spirit of the series without stomping all over it. Secondly is the ending. There is one. Not that there isn't room for further Star Risk adventures, it is just that so many continuations use a hackneyed, breathless cliff-hanger as an ending. I am never quite sure whether this is because the author just doesn't have the expertise to know when the story ends or (more likely) they want to insure you buy the next book.
Overall, this is a dandy space yarn that pays tribute to the originator of the series and is well worth singing the "I don't care if it is 0200 I just have to finish the book" morning after blues.
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Chepe
3.0 out of 5 stars Ganster Conspiracy
Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2007
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Though well written and exciting sequal. It is not nearly as exciting as Chris Bunch would of made it.
For starters none of the main characters would be sitting around a table mopping. There would be small plots going on at the same time as the main story. Interaction between others and the main player would have a more impact on how each character reacts.
Though I enjoyed the book and the authors maintain the semblance Risk Inc. atmosphere there was some thing lacking. It did not keep me on the edge of my seat to see how it would turn out.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Stainless Steel Rat Redux
Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2008
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The problem with this entire series is that it is a rehash of the Stainless Steel Rat series by Harry Harrison except with more protagonists involved. Initially, the flippant tone is fun but after the third novel, it begins to pale. We're told that M'chel Riss and Jasmine King are gorgeous as well as competent at their jobs and skills but the constant re-emphasis just got to be a real drag: All right, already--we got the picture. Quit harping on it, okay? For a guy, nothing's going to beat a foldout picture so don't even try! Then the stories became very formulaic: Bad guys threaten good guys; good guys get help; bad guys get trounced. Then the last book in the series got a new tweak: Bad guys threaten good guys, good guys get help; good guys turn out to be just as bad as bad guys; both sides get trounced. Okay, neat. But where do you go from there? How many more variations on the theme can you do before you wear a hole in the rug? Somehow, Harry Harrison fleshed out his character of the Stainless Steel Rat much better than Chris Bunch did. And when the Perrys took over, after having read the excellent stuff that Steve Perry has come out with (especially the Matador series), it felt like he was slumming. Even his addition of the technology so common in his rather bleak Matador universe felt fake in this context. Cross-pollination just didn't work because Chris Bunch's original tone was so flippant that the juxtaposition was absolutely jarring to anybody who had ever followed Steve Perry's Matador series and suddenly found themselves in a "Matador Lite" or "Saturday Night Live, Matador-style" book.
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Peter
4.0 out of 5 stars Fitting addition to series
Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2007
While you can see where the authors diverged from the original series they still kept good old Star Risk in top form allowing for some characters to truly shine in their own right. That being said however not much development was done beyond what was already set down in the series which is understandable given that they are picking up where C. Bunch left off.

Still, overall you can see that this may be meant to be the final chapter and allow closure to a great series. Personally I would like to see them keep going but if not then that's ok as it's been a heck of a ride from a great series.
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