Storm Front – Richard Castle

In the series premiere of Castle, author Richard Castle had just killed off Derrick Storm, the star of his best selling series of novels.  After the success of the first 4 Nikki Heat novels, Castle decided to bring Storm back in Storm Front, the first Derrick Storm novel released here in the real world.

In this tale, Derrick Storm is called in to investigate the deaths of a number of currency traders, each of which features the familiar MO of his old foe Gregor Volkov.  Storm, along with a Chinese agent, try to get to the bottom of the killings and stop Volkov before he brings down the world’s economy.

I must admit, I was a little worried going in to this one.  While I have enjoyed the Nikki Heat novels thus far, those have followed, somewhat, some of the plots of the show.  Derrick Storm was an unknown quantity.  Thankfully, my worry was for naught, as this book had the same charms as the Heat books, even featuring a brief cameo by Heat and Jameson Rook.  There’s already a second book in the series, and I’m looking forward to reading it.