The Good Thief | 
| Author: James Buchanan
Publisher: MLR Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  7 reviews
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 240
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Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5 x 0.6
ISBN: 1934531448
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781934531440
ASIN: 1934531448
Publication Date: April 20, 2008
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Product Description
What if the wrong guy, turns out to be the right guy for you? Caesar Serrano thought he screwed up when he landed in the bed of LAPD Officer Nathan Reilly. But when Caesar breaks into the wrong house and stumbles upon a heinous crime, implicating a high ranking LAPD officer, Nate is the only person he knows to turn to. The resulting investigation throws the Blue Brigade into panic. Now he's running for his life and Nate is his only hope for survival. Can two men, on opposite sides of the law, come together to bring a monster to justice?
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The Good Thief September 16, 2008
M. Nix
Caesario Jose Payan-Serrano is a thief. He meets Officer Nathan Reilly at a party. Nate and Caesar have a bit to much to drink and spend the night together, but in the morning, they vaguely remember each other. That's when Caesar discovers that Nate's a cop and he takes off running. A few days later, they run into each other again. Caesar tries to blow Nate off but it doesn't work and Nate ends up blowing Caesar off instead. A criminal and a cop can't have a future together but Caesar and Nate can't seem to stay away from each other either.
Caesar finds himself in need of a cop's help and turns to Nate. Nate has no choice but to help Caesar, because if he doesn't, a heinous crime will go unpunished. Nate and Caesar's lives are at stake when certain individuals want them to mind their own business, and their hearts are at stake when their feelings for each other go beyond attraction.
Opposites attract and the bad guy wins in The Good Thief. James Buchanan pens a terrific story with two great characters and an intense storyline. Caesar holds no guilt about being a thief. I never once thought badly of him. In fact, I think I fell as hard for him as Nate did. Nate is a cop through and through. He's loyal, honest, and takes his job very seriously. He's so sexy. It's so much fun watching these two fall for each other! The Good Thief is a hot, romantic, and exciting.
Nannette
reviewed for Joyfully Reviewed
Hot, hot, hot!!!!! September 2, 2008
M/M fan
This man knows how to make a love scene sizzle. Not only does the story drag you in kicking and screaming, but his two main men are to die for. They were real, gorgeous, and believable. Loved the irony of the cop being the bottom...
the stuff of good fantasy. well done, James! Buy it.
 Fun and steamy read July 28, 2008
Michael P (Louisville, KY United States)
The Good Thief was a wild and fun ride from the first chapter. Liked the characters, story, writing, and well, even the intimate details.
Hard to put down.
THE GOOD THIEF by James Buchanan May 29, 2008
JenB (USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I read this author's story COYOTE CROSSING (also 5 stars) in the ARRESTING DEVELOPMENTS e-anthology from Aspen Mountain Press and loved it so much I decided I needed to give one of the author's other books a shot. So I checked out the backlist, found one of the longer books, and started reading. And then I couldn't put it down! This book is hot from page one.
Cop drama/suspense is not usually my cup of tea. THE GOOD THIEF is based on all the elements that usually make me roll my eyes and quit reading. One night stand, relationship between the Law Enforcement Officer and the Crook With a Heart of Gold, good cops/bad cops, political controversy, guardian/ward romance...all the things that, in the hands of a lesser author, would amount to nothing more than a bad episode of CSI. So how does James Buchanan make it work? Talent, that's how.
The plot here is good and solid. It's fairly simple, nothing too uncommon or outlandish, and the progress is straightforward and pretty true to real life. James doesn't try to reinvent the wheel here, but instead works with the familiar and keeps it real. I love the author's word choices. Buchanan uses everyday language, peppered with the Spanglish that I hear every day. But where this author really shines is characterization.
James Buchanan knows how to write amazing characters. Caesar and Nate practically jump off the page. I have a hard time picturing characters in my head when I'm reading a book, but I had no trouble picturing Caesar and Nate. They're incredibly real, and though their situation is a bit dramatic, their reactions to each other and the world around them are very appropriate.
There's no overwrought soap opera angst, no Big Misunderstanding, no crack psychology, and no cheesy public service announcements in this story. It's a suspenseful cop drama, but more than anything else it's a romance. This author obviously understands love and relationships, because I felt myself really relating to the two men and their love for one another.
This review isn't complete without a quick mention of the love scenes and the chemistry in this story. I felt like I was intruding into something very special and private. The love scenes are incredibly hot and sensual, yet so intimate and emotional that I felt like a voyeur. Even that first steamy encounter sizzled with electricity. There are some hot hookups in this book, but nothing cheap or trashy. Their sexual encounters are all intensly emotional, charged with energy and testosterone, and filled with promise.
It's really rare for me to actually connect with authors and their characters, so this book was a real treat for me. I plan to look up James Buchanan's entire backlist very soon.
Good cop, bad ... May 25, 2008
K. Peoples (Arlington, VA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Excellent read here! If you want to find two protagonists who are less alike and most likely NOT to make a go of a relationship, it is hard to find a better combination than an honest (and hot, hunky, muscled, tall, blond and handsome) cop (Nate) and a hard, lean, black haired, sexy, Hispanic, professional housebreaker/thief (Caesar). How can such a pair make it work as a relationship (aside from the continuous, HOT, passionate sex)? Only if one of them is willing to make a major change: either the good cop goes bad (so not going to happen) or the thief finds a way to make necesssary changes in his life and goes "straight," so to speak (fortunately not his sexuality). That's the crux of this novel and I actually thought Buchanan did an excellent job first of developing a steamy hot, passionate attraction between two very unlikely candidates for "couple of the year." Then, he put them under considerable conflict both between the two and with the two against outside forces and gave the thief a chance to redeem himself. Then the stress of the situation strained the "relationship" so that the reader doesn't really know whether or not a happy ending is actually going to come of all this stress. All along the way, the two hunks find their overwhelming attraction for one another getting in the way, then getting stronger, then leading both to look for ways to stay together. Damn fun read: the two characters, flaws and all, are both real, the conflict between the two is real, the stress from an outside event is highly credible in the way it affects everyone in the book, and the sex is awsome. Good romance story, good action adventure story, good erotic story, good characters. Great read. Go for it.
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