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    KnockOut
    KnockOut
    KnockOut
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    KnockOut

    Written by Catherine Coulter

    Narrated by Paul Costanzo and Renee Raudman

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    The first time she spoke to him was at midnight.

    Seven-year-old Autumn Backman needed a hero. When she saw Special Agent Dillon Savich on TV after he’d brought down bank robbers in a Georgetown bank, she knew she’d found him. She called Savich, but she didn’t use the phone.

    They were burying dead people in my daddy’s grave . . . they’re coming after us. Please help me.
    Who’s they?
    Blessed, he’s coming.

    Ethan Merriweather, sheriff of Titusville, Virginia, a small mountain town near the Titus Hitch Wilderness, goes looking for a missing little girl. Soon after he finds her, Ethan realizes that Autumn has brought him a huge problem – a relentless madman who has the ability to control others simply by looking at them. And the madman is after her and her mom.

    It’s Uncle Blessed, and he wants Autumn.

    When Savich answers Autumn’s call, she tells him Blessed is from Bricker’s Bowl, Georgia. Savich and Sherlock go to Blessed’s home, learn about his brother, Grace, and meet their mother, Shepherd. Savich soon realizes the only way to stop Blessed is to “cut off the snake’s head.”

    Back in Titusville, Ethan, Autumn, and her mother, Joanna, are forced to hide from Blessed and Grace in the wilderness. Ethan knows the brothers will never give up their insane pursuit for Autumn.

    It’s a race to stop the madness, or the madness will destroy them all.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJun 16, 2009
    ISBN9781423365259
    KnockOut
    Author

    Catherine Coulter

    Catherine Coulter is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of ninety-two novels including the FBI suspense thriller series and A Brit in the FBI international thriller series, co-written with the brilliant author J.T. Ellison. Coulter lives in Sausalito, California, with her Übermensch husband. She hikes daily and posts wide-ranging photos of her beautiful area.

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    • 5/5
      Another great suspense mystery with FBI team Dillion Savich and Lacey Sherlock! There are several books with these characters and they are always saving or helping someone. Usually youll hear of those characters in future books, so its nice to remember them and hear about them again. This story has two storylines that the Savich and Sherlock are following. A young Bonnie & Clyde type they are trying to capture. And then a little girl of 7 yrs old and her mom, trying to escape her in laws family that wants to take the girl from her since their son died. The little girl communicates to Savich telepathically, so that's a little unbelievable, but I like stuff like that and who am I to say it cant happen? LOL These books dont have to be read in order, because each story supports itself. But it is nice to read them in order because you learn how Savich and Sherlock met and how they became a team and all the people they are involved with. Check it out! 
    • 3/5
      This was slow and confusing to start but then I enjoyed it and read it rather quickly. I would have given 4 stars otherwise.
    • 3/5
      Ok. I was expecting more FBI and less paranormal. I thought it dragged on. They should have killed Blessed as soon as they could have.
    • 2/5
      I wanted to like this book - I liked the characters, I liked the premise. I abhorred the DIALOUGE. Who speaks like that? Holy contrived conversations to move the plot along! Way too much coincidence! Bones of a great story here, but I was disappointed by Coulter's literary laziness.
    • 5/5
      Savich and Sherlock are tracking down a family with special mind-controlling gifts who are trying to kidnap their dead brother's child in order to continue their cult. Savich also has 2 bank robbers trying to kill him because he shot the mother of one of the robbers in a bank. I think I have a couple more to read before I have to wait for the next book in this series to come out.
    • 5/5
      A fast and entertaining read with two main stories converging. For fans of Coulter, familiar characters Savich and Sherlock continue to fight evil with spunk. A touch of super powers mixed in to spice it up. A second set of protagonists and antagonists makes it seem like two stories in one! I've always felt dialogue is as fast and clever (no one is that witty in conversation all the time!) as the action but at least it doesn't slow up the pace of the story. Bad guys are super evil and crazy to boot. Coulter still knows how to spin a good yarn.
    • 3/5
      3 1/2 *** review.A seven year old girl, Autumn Backman contacts FBI Special Agent Dillon Savich after seeing a show on TV about how he stopped a bank robbery. She is able to communicate with him telepathically.In Titusville, VA. Autumn runs away and hides in the home of Sheriff Ethan Merriweather. She tells him that a man named Blessed is after her and her mother, Joanna and warns Ethan not to look into the face of Blessed because he is able to control a person's thoughts once they look him in the eye.Savich had killed one of the bank robbers as they were preparing to kill the bank guard. He was attempting to find the last survivor from the bank holdup and the driver of the get away car when Autumn contacts him again, asking for help.We learn that Blessed is Autumn's uncle who, with his mind control ability, wants to take Autumn to his family home so they can benefit from her powers.When Savich is attempting to help her, the bank robber and the driver, go to Savich's home to attempt revenge on his family. The FBI is protecting his home and the two barely escape."Knock Out: An FBI Thriller" is a fun read. The action is non stop and the reader is caught up in the excitement. The author states that she is influenced by Agatha Christie and Michael Connelly among others; but in this tale, it seems that Stephen King is also an influence, particularly from his novel, "Firestarter."Hop aboard for a fun ride, you'll enjoy it.
    • 4/5
      For experienced FBI Special Agent Dillon Savich to find himself on the floor of a bank during a bank robbery was a bit of luck, good and bad. He was able to alert his partner and wife Special Agent Lacey Sherlock of the robbery in progress as well as be there to help take down the bad guys and girls. While the sole survivor of the gang was in the hospital, she was able to escape with the help of the get-a-way driver. While trying to figure out their next move, Dillon received a message from a seven year old girl named Autumn. This little girl seemed to be in his head, able to talk to him from far away. The whole town of Titusville, Virginia was out looking for the missing girl all day, when Sherriff Ethan Merriweather came home and found she had been playing with his animals, he had no idea the trouble that would follow. Running away from her relatives who knew she had the special gift of telepathy, the whole family seemed to be able to do extraordinary thing like control other with one look, her and her mother (Joanna Backman) just wanted to find help from someone they could trust. With information coming from Savich and Sherlock, Ethan and Joanna were able to figure out a way to avoid her husbands family, for a while.Book 13.…. Another adventure of Savich and Sherlock, this one had so much action in it, it was non stop from the first words, taking on two ’situations’ at one time. There was very, very little romance in this one at all, it was all adventure and suspense (that is good sometimes). I really enjoyed it. I would have liked a little more of Autumn, Joanna and Ethan, so much togetherness in a short amount of time causes for an interesting set of conditions for getting to know each other. This book is part of the series, as usual with Catherine Coulter’s FBI Thrillers, the character creation and the continuing story of previously met characters are great. There is a mention of another ‘psychic’ event from Dillon’s past, while this type of thing has happened a couple of times before, it was fun to see it again. I would say that if you don’t mind the references to other stories, this could be read as a stand alone, but to really get the whole feel of who Savich and Sherlock are, I find reading a series in order is the best, this one included - even though it is 13 books now.
    • 5/5
      Yes indeedy, I do like Catherine Coulter's 'FBI' series starring agents with grit, smarts, a kicka$$ computer, humor, and the occasional 'gifts'. "Knock Out" is her latest novel set in the world of Savich and Sherlock and it is...a knock out.This time Savich and Sherlock are working two cases at the same time. The first involves a gang of vicious bank robbers who kill security guards for no reason other than 'fun'. The second involves a special girl named Autumn, who first speaks to Savich in his sleep. Autumn is being hunted for her 'talents' by a paranormal cult group who have named themselves after a devil-worshiping 1500s cult. So which case will be important? When it comes down to it, do you rescue one small girl on the run or hunt down two indiscrimite killers? I'm not sure which group of 'bad guys' were creepier. Both could be classified as 'nutjobs' (that's the clinical term doncha you know), but both treated the lives of others as 'cheap change'. I'm wondering if we'll see more of Autumn in a later novel (which I would LOVE to read); or quite possibly one of the characters from the cult who may have gotten away."Knock Out" grabbed me from page one and the action never slowed. There's no real romance or sex in Coulter's recent FBI novels, but that doesn't affect my enjoyment one bit. She almost always manages to throw me a few curveballs that I never saw coming and yet when I'm finished, I can only wonder how I didn't catch on before! Her characters are real to me and their dilemmas and reactions make me think. Smart, sexy, action mysteries. Is that a genre? If it's not, it should be and Catherine Coulter is an author that needs to be at the top of the author list for it. If you enjoy hold-your-breath action, well-plotted mystery, and a little 'woo woo'; and you have a few hours to read...grab "Knock Out" and tune out the world.
    • 4/5
      13th book in the FBI series that is more suspense than romance.Savich gets a telepathic message from a 7 year-old girl just as he’s falling asleep. She’d seen him on TV and knows he’s a hero and she needs help, so tried to reach him. Her father’s relatives have just recently learned of her existence and all are gifted with various powers to mess with someone else’s mind. And they want her in their fold and will stop at nothing to grab her, even though she’s surrounded by deputies and the sheriff.As with most of the books, there is a 2nd issue taking place. Savich was a customer in a bank that was getting robbed and stops the robbery. One of the robbers is a 16 year-old girl who wants to kill Savich and the bank’s security guard because her mother, another of the bank robbers, was killed in a shootout before they could escape with the loot. With her cousin’s help, she’s able to escape from a hospital and the hunt is on.The romance? Between 7 year-old Autumn’s mother and Sheriff Ethan Merriweather who come together to keep Autumn safe from her very scary uncle.The book takes place a couple of months after Tailspin, so the homelife of Sherlock and Savich goes forward with Sherlock recovering from losing her spleen in the last book. The characters are interesting, the story moves fast, the suspense is good, and as always, the book contains a lot of humor.