A Bloody Storm – Richard Castle
The third, and final, installment of the trilogy returning Derrick Storm from the dead finds Richard Castle’s hero leading a team of fellow ghosted CIA operatives to rescue FBI agent April Showers and find the gold stolen from the Communist party and hidden by the KGB. By the end of the mission, Storm learns who betrayed him in Tangiers and that the gold is still out there, waiting to be found.
This novella wraps up the story started in A Brewing Storm. While I get the impetus to split the story into thirds and release them individually, it would have worked better as one whole tale, with the necessary repetition removed and replaced with more action. At the time, though, there was no way of knowing how much of an audience there was for a Richard Castle novel that was not a more-direct tie-in to Castle. Enough of one for a full length novel, Storm Front, to be released the following year.
