Novelist James L. Thane, author of the crime novels No Place to Die and Until Death, shares his fondness for Tom Kakonis' thriller Criss Cross. In Cross Cross, his second crime novel, Tom Kakonis brings together a disparate cast of odd, strange and curious characters who come together very uneasily in the hope of making one big score. Principal among them is Mitchell Morse, a former college football player and ex-cop who's spiraled downhill to the point where he's now employed as a security guard at a Fleets superstore in Grand Rapids, Michigan, chasing down shoplifters. Before being fired from his last job, Mitch had met a fellow security guard named Jean Satterfield. Mitch has not... more
