- Paperback
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Export (Sep 1 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1439191638
- ISBN-13: 978-1439191637
- Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 10.4 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 240 g
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #192,388 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Praise for Sandra Brown -- : 'It's a great, entertaining read, with lots of surprising twists and turns, credibly flawed characters and a love affair that's as steamy as a Savannah summer.' -- Lisa Scottoline, Washington Post on RICOCHET 'A masterful storyteller, carefully crafting tales that keep readers on the edge of their seats' -- USA Today 'Perfectly plotted' -- People Magazine 'An edge-of-seat thriller that's full of twists ... Top stuff!' -- Star 'Fast fun' -- Cosmopolitan 'Millions of readers clamour for the compelling novels of Sandra Brown. And no wonder! She fires your imagination with irresistible characters, unexpected plot twists, scandalous secrets ... so electric you feel the zing' -- Literary Guild
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Colleagues, friends, and lovers know Dodge Hanley as a private investigator who doesn’t let rules get in his way—in his private life as well as his professional one. If he breaks a heart, or bends the law in order to catch a criminal, he does so without hesitation or apology.That’s why he’s the first person Caroline King—who after a thirty-year separation continues to haunt his dreams—asks for help when a deranged stalker attempts to murder their daughter . . . the daughter Dodge has never met. He has a whole bagful of grudging excuses for wishing to ignore Caroline’s call, and one compelling reason to drop everything and fly down to Texas: guilt.Dodge’s mind may be a haze of disturbing memories and bad decisions, but he arrives in Houston knowing with perfect clarity that his daughter, Berry, is in danger. She has become the object of desire of a co-worker, a madman and genius with a penchant for puzzles and games who has spent the past year making Berry’s life hell, and who now has vowed to kill her.Dodge joins forces with local deputy sheriff Ski Nyland, but the alarming situation goes from bad to worse when the stalker begins to claim other victims and leaves an ominous trail of clues as he lethally works his way toward Berry. Sensing the killer drawing nearer, Dodge, who’s survived vicious criminals and his own self-destructive impulses, realizes that this time he’s in for the fight of his life.
From acclaimed best-selling author Sandra Brown, Tough Customer is a heart-pounding tale about obsession and murder, the fragile nature of relationships, and, possibly, second chances. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
what ... was ... this???,
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This review is from: Tough Customer (Paperback)
Did Sandra Brown even write this ???? Come on !!!! Don't get me wrong "I Love Sandra Brown", I've read her for years and years and years, I "look forward" to her books and still will.... but come on!!! Big mistake on Sandra Browns' part. We'll forget all about this "mistake" if she promises N-E-V-E-R to write like this peculiar book ever again. I don't know, just saying don't write a bad story after you've written a whole lot of great stories, it's like you're bored but you make money; so why not release this story? Then I go to the store, because NOW I'm bored; pay for your book in CDN funds no less, add $2 to $3 more!! You make more money and I loose respect. So sad.
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
One of the Stupidest Heroines Around,
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This review is from: Tough Customer (Paperback)
Ok. I just finished reading this book and it's certainly not the worst book I have ever read. It's got some interesting characters - especially the heroine's mother and her relationship with the heroine's father (who hadn't seen her since the day the heroine was born). However, this heroine, Berry, is just ridiculously stupid. She has a stalker - presumably a dangerous thing- but she calls him up and apologizes for losing her temper with him and saying mean things about 2 days before he breaks into her house and shoots a married co-worker of hers. Then when the co-worker is in the hospital and his wife is all jealous and angry, Berry comes in and says she wasn't having an affair with the coworker even though several months ago, she might have, but now she's a different person. Then she feels all offended that they don't give her bizarre confession the reaction she's expecting. The police are pretty bizarre in this story too. They don't seem to think that the whole stalker/shooting a co-worker thing is too serious - just some love triangle thing, but when the stalker shoots some straight A teenage boy, well, then it's serious. Seriously if it wasn't for the parents' backstory, I would have just not bothered to finish this book.
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3.3 out of 5 stars (96 customer reviews) 63 of 66 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Sandra Brown is still awesome!,
By W. Smith "4everSLAUGHTERED" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: TOUGH CUSTOMER (Hardcover)
Tough talking, chain smoking Atlanta Investigator Dodge Hanley (from Smash Cut: A Novel) receives a late night phone call from the love of his life Caroline King who lives in Texas. Dodge has not seen Caroline in 30 years and now their daughter, Berry, is being stalked by a former co-worker who wants her dead. He immediately returns to Texas. Sheriff Deputy and Afghanistan war veteran Ski Nyland, who is the local investigator on the case, is immediately attracted to Berry. Ski will do anything to keep her safe, but is suspicious of her story. Does she hold secrets that may have provoked her stalker turned killer? I really didn't care. The search for Berry's stalker isn't that exciting and didn't contain any mystery or suspense for me.Thankfully Brown intermittently flashes back to 1978 to tell the love story of young police officer Dodge Hanley and aspiring realtor Caroline King. The flashbacks were the best part of Tough Customer -- how dramatically they met, how passionately they fell in love, how tragically they split apart, how remarkably differently their lives turned out, and most importantly of all, how enduring their love was. For me, this was not a story about a murderous stalker, but a story about setting bad decisions right and having hope for second chances. 49 of 58 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
Was this actually written by my once favorite author?,
By Movie Lover - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: TOUGH CUSTOMER (Hardcover)
I hate to say it, but this book was terrible. I almost couldn't get through it, and for me that's rare, especially for a Sandra Brown book. It was so difficult to read, that it took me weeks rather than days to work my way through to the last page.The characters were flat and uninteresting. I felt like I didn't know who they were at all. You barely even got a feel for what they looked like, so it was hard to get lost in the story. I felt like I was being forced to study for a test rather than reading a novel for enjoyment. The only saving grace for this story were the few glimpses of Dodge and Caroline's relationship from the 70's. Unfortunately, there wasn't enough of their story to actually make this a good book. Her books haven't been the same since changing publishers, but they still felt like Sandra Brown books. Not so with this one. It felt like a young Literature student wrote this book, not my once favorite author. Save your money, borrow this from the library if you feel like giving it a try. 6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not one of Sandra's Best, but still good,
By Juliet - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: TOUGH CUSTOMER (Hardcover)
Just finished the book and wow, it so could have been cut down to 200 pages instead of almost 400. I was never big on flash backs, but especially in this book, it kept going back and fourth. Anyway Dodge's character was a complete disappointment, but his personality kinda hit home with me, cause I am so like him. Caroline was OK, but Berry, she surprisingly was a vindictive bitch, but she did own up to that, and did change. I loved the deputy. It was slow and a bit boring, but once you get to page 360, it goes really fast and only then does the whole story come together. As for passion, Sandra's losing her touch, between Dodge and Caroline, they were luke warm at best even in the past. Now Berry and the deputy, that was pretty good but could have been better, plus it was only one scene. So I say it so could have been more shorter, more suspenseful, had more action, and for sure more passion. But the four star comes from the ending which was a bittersweet cliff hanger, but still good. If any of her books should be turned into a movie this would be it. Oh and I don't care how good of detective you are, you can not figure out the plot until I'd say page 300, and even then you'd still never guess the outcome.
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