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	Smoker (Atticus Kodiak Novels) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		But Atticus worms his way in anyway--and the results are as exciting and packed with fascinating inside details of the BG trade as ever.
		Particularly entertaining is a scene where Atticus and Natalie are hired to test the security of a safe house, using everything from unordered pizzas to volleys of tennis balls to irritate the guards.
		Atticus Kodiak and his pals are a fun bunch to read about but it seems the storyline just kind of runs around and around with an ending that did not resolve much.
	www.shoeshinestore.com /smoker-atticus-kodiak-novels_B000F6Z6QM.html (1045 words)

	Greg Rucka's Atticus Kodiak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Bodyguard Atticus Kodiak is introduced in a rather harrowing scene at an abortion clinc.
		He is hired by the clinic's head Dr. Felice Romero to protect her from the threats of a radical pro-life group headed by the charismatic Jonathan Crowell.
		Kodiak was a member of the Executive Protection branch when he was in the army, and became bodyguard professionally when he got out of the army.
	members.tripod.com /~whitebear/rucka.html (296 words)

	Amazon.ca: Editorial Reviews Books: Smoker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Bodyguard Atticus Kodiak is hired not to guard Pugh, rumored to be the target of an infamous hitman, but to guard a red herring whom Pugh's lawyers hope the assassin will mistake for Pugh.
		Kodiak and his bodyguard buddies soon become victims themselves in an absurdist drama as they routinely question, doubt, then deny that far-fetched villainy is afoot, only to discover bombs, bullets, and worse awaiting them around the corner.
		Kodiak not only has to protect Pugh from further assaults but has to figure out, from among a pack of suspects (both male and female), just who John Doe really is. Tiresome, preposterous plotting in an otherwise compelling tale filled with well-drawn, believable people and nicely turned- out scenes.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/books/0553578294/reviews (2313 words)

	Bleeker Books - Smoker
		Now Kodiak's been drawn into the crossfire of a multimillion-dollar game of cat and mouse, guarding a potential victim with an explosive story to tell, and pitted against one of the ten most dangerous assassins in the world.
		While the ending is a little weak, the overall novel is a definite success of tension, suspense, and human conflict, from the battle between killer and protector, on to the mundane interactions of people in their daily lives.
		The book opens with professional bodyguard Atticus Kodiak at the end of his personal and professional rope - estranged from his girlfriend by an act of monumental stupidity on his part, and persona non grata in the security industry for the bad luck that seems to follow him from job to job.
	www.bleekerbooks.com /Books/Titles/Book.asp?ID=1590 (1207 words)

	Finder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Professional bodyguard Atticus Kodiak is still having trouble dealing with the death of his best friend at the end of Keeper, Greg Rucka's well-received first thriller.
		In a case built on lies, vengeance, and sins of the past, Atticus is pulled into a vortex of treachery and violence, and learns that a promise can be the most dangerous weapon of all....
		Atticus seems cut from the down on the luck hero rather then the invicible superman cloth that arises too often these days.
	www.shoeshinestore.com /finder_0553574299.html (600 words)

	Critical Space - Sizzly.com Store (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Atticus agrees to protect her while her ladyship is in the United States and soon things begin to go wrong.
		Comment: This is the 5th book in the Atticus Kodiak and once again Greg Rucka has managed to extend his characters further as they wage a thrilling fight to the death against the most deadly of assassins.
		Kodiak receives news that Drama is on the move again, making her way towards New York City.
	www.sizzly.com /store/product-buy-0553581791.html (1238 words)

	book: Atticus of Rome, 30 B.C. (The Life and Times Series) \| Barry Denenberg ...
		Atticus, a young boy of 12 years is captured by Roman soldiers after watching his village burnt to the ground with his mother and sister trapped inside.
		Atticus learns the meaning of true allegiance and proves himself worthy of his master's final generosity.
		Atticus, a young boy who has been torn from his family and home and sold as a slave to a Roman aristocrat, quickly learns that not all is as it seems in the republic of Rome.
	www.very-clever.com /information/dekzuheukz (393 words)

	Bookreporter.com - Suspense/Thriller Author Feature - Greg Rucka Books
		For Atticus Kodiak, professional bodyguard, the object is to keep people alive, and there is no margin for error.
		Now Kodiak faces his toughest challenge: to protect a woman and her daughter from a killer with a fanatic agenda of his own....
		Atticus Kodiak has a reputation as one of the toughest bodyguards in the business.
	www.bookreporter.com /suspense_thriller/0408rucka/rucka-greg_books.asp (1028 words)

	Greck Rucka: Critical Condition [2001] Shaking Through.net: Books: Review
		For starters, the likeable Kodiak is neither police detective, private investigator nor super-spy, but instead a professional bodyguard, a device that allows Rucka to explore a whole different patch of turf from his contemporaries, and explore it well.
		Kodiak finds himself the newest tabloid target of the moment, and feels himself and his company drifting from the kind of work they'd formed to do, bogged down with high-profile babysitting details for spoiled celebrities.
		Rucka's determination to fully extrapolate the real-life consequences of Kodiak's decisions is commendable, as is his willingness -- nay, his eagerness -- to shake the reader's already-diminishing sense of complacency.
	shakingthrough.net /books/reviews/2001/rucka_critical_space_2001.htm (946 words)

	The Keeper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Kodiak is a bodyguard, but specialises in the business, running his own company and employing his own team of professionals.
		Atticus Kodiak (aside from having one of the strangest names I ever heard, even if it is a literary name) is a great character.
		The characters, especially Kodiak, were not unbelievable supermen, and were susceptable to pain and anguish.
	www.armchairfans.co.uk /books/0553574280 (434 words)

	Kodiak's Space (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Atticus saved her from a would be assassin and his company now has more clients than it knows what to do with.
		Atticus and the rest of KTMH are trying to keep her safe.
		The ransom is that Atticus will protect Drama from one of the members of her group that is out to kill her.
	www.bvsreviews.com /critspac.htm (377 words)

	Amazon.ca: Critical Space: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The mice (so to speak) are the KTMH Security team, headed by Atticus Kodiak, renowned as the only security operative ever to outmaneuver a young female assassin know as Drama, one of the deadliest members of The Ten, an international group of stone-cold killers.
		This is the 5th book in the Atticus Kodiak and once again Greg Rucka has managed to extend his characters further as they wage a thrilling fight to the death against the most deadly of assassins.
		i've never read any of the books in the atticus kodiak series before, i'm not one for thrillers and i only picked up critical space becuase it was the only book in english i could find while on vacation in italy.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0749933275 (1460 words)

	Atticus Kodiak
		ATTICUS KODIAK is a professional bodyguard, headquartered in New York, whose career, despite his youth, has already experienced a few ups and downs.
		He's a great character, a deft combination of cold-blooded professionalism, brooding introspection and easy-going charm, surrounded by a fascinating crew of sometimes-larger-than-life characters.
		Next up, is a kinda non-series series tale featuring Atticus' tough-talking girlfriend, Bridgett Logan, a Life Saver-sucking, nose-ringed 6'1" private eye, who has a few issues of her own to deal with.
	www.thrillingdetective.com /kodiak.html (249 words)

	Smoker - PowerBookSearch!
		Kodiak's soap opera^-like personal relationships hurt the book a bit, but not enough to seriously detract from an exciting action adventure.
		Kodiak, living under a cloud from botched jobs in his past, reluctantly accepts, letting Natalie, Trents estranged daughter and Kodiak's current lover, lend an assist.
		In Smoker, Greg Rucka's fast-paced and entertaining pulse-pounder, it appears that down-and-out bodyguard Atticus Kodiak is in way over his head, especially when he's matched against one of the most deadly, efficient, and skilled assassins in the world.
	www.powerbooksearch.com /booksearch0553578294.html (1378 words)

	Author Greg Rucka
		Atticus Kodiak has been tagged as a man who attracts trouble.
		Now Kodiak's been drawn into the crossfire of a multimillion-dollar game of cat and mouse, pitted against one of the ten most dangerous assassins in the world, a ghost who changes with the wind and adapts to any situation.
		His hero, the tortured, courageous, and inventive Atticus Kodiak, is a great addition to thriller fiction.
	www.gregrucka.com /smoker.html (384 words)

	Bleeker Books - Finder
		Atticus Kodiak, his protaganist, moves in a circle of foul-mouthed, partying friends, yet maintains a style all his own in the midst of the muck about him.
		Here, again, Atticus Kodiak is at work as a bodyguard, this time watching over the daughter of his former lover.
		Atticus Kodiak isn't the typical invincible hero, and doesn't always win.
	www.bleekerbooks.com /Books/Titles/Book.asp?ID=1588 (737 words)

	Keeper by Bantam
		Atticus Kodiak, Rucka's protagonist is, if seemingly a little too young at 28, an engaging character with an interesting supporting cast, and his chosen profession, bodyguard, is vividly depicted.
		Rucka unself-consciously tackles the sticky politics of the situation, offering welcome shades of gray in what is often a fl and white topic, while delivering a taut thriller that kept me on the edge of my seat through the end.
		It quickly becomes clear the danger she faces is most certainly real and Kodiak is going to be stretched to the limit if he's going to keep her safe.
	www.negative-procreative.biz /stuff-0553102443.html (858 words)

	BrendanMcKillip.com: Comics & Books: review #4
		Kodiak is a professional bodyguard hired to protect Felice Romero, director of a Manhattan abortion clinic targeted by militant pro-lifers.
		Kodiak gets wrapped up personally in the challenge of keeping Dr. Romero and her 16-year old daughter who has Down's syndrome.
		Not only is Rucka's police procedure knowledge top notch, his writing reveals a depth of knowledge of the world of professional protection (and later on in the series, professional assassins) that boggles the mind.
	www.brendanmckillip.com /reviews/review4.html (450 words)

	Win A Major Role in Greg Rucka's New Atticus Kodiak Novel » PopCultureShock
		Atticus Kodiak, Greg Rucka's signature fiction hero is returning in the novel Patriot Acts to be published next year by Bantam.
		Set three years after the events of Critical Space, Patriot Acts introduces us to a changed Atticus, who has transcended the personal security business to find himself in a world of even higher stakes.
		Rucka explains, "Patriot Acts is the much-anticipated return of Atticus Kodiak, picking up three years after the events of Critical Space, and finds Atticus flmailed into performing a 'service for his country' that isn't quite what it appears at first glance."
	popcultureshock.com /news.php?id=2444 (557 words)

	Metro Pulse/Pulp/Greg Rucka
		Besides his series of novels starring bodyguard Atticus Kodiak (a welcome and novel departure from acres of P.I.s, cops, and detectives proper), he is also a prolific writer of comic books that are as compelling as any story he tells without the use of pictures.
		Kodiak's travails in earlier books have granted him and his agency something of a celebrity status, which they broker into cushy, headline-grabbing jobs babysitting celebrities
		The reappearance of Drama, an international assassin foiled by Kodiak in Smoker, the third novel in the series, forces Kodiak into physical and moral quandaries and widens the scope of the serial immensely, giving Atticus and company a global playground outside of the their New York base of operations.
	www.metropulse.com /dir_zine/dir_2002/1248/t_pulp.html (857 words)

	Critical Space by Greg Rucka Detailed Book Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Atticus Kodiak is a profesional bodyguard, who is forced to protect an assasin, who'd earlier been his nemisis.
		Atticus is the only known person to have thwarted an assassin attempt by Drama, perhaps the deadliest killer of the notorious murderous row, The Ten.
		Atticus admires Lady Ainsley-Hunter for her work and will do anything to keep her safe, but Drama manages the impossible and abducts her.
	www.allreaders.com /topics/Info_7328.asp (417 words)

	Random House \| Books \| Critical Space by Greg Rucka
		Code-named Drama, she is a lightning-fast death machine — a hitwoman sought by intelligence agencies around the world.
		But what Drama needs from him will destroy his reputation — and siding with her means he can never turn back.
		But once immersed in Drama’s high-stakes, covert world, Atticus breaks a cardinal rule: He gets to know Drama as a woman rather than just a client — and it’s a bond that could cost them both their lives.
	www.randomhouse.com /catalog/display.pperl?9780553897173&view=print (355 words)

	SciFan: Books: Smoker by Greg Rucka (from our database of Fantasy & SF novels, anthologies, collections) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Now, in Rucka's most explosive novel to date, professional bodyguard Atticus Kodiak returns to confront an enemy without conscience or mercy--a master of manipulation, a pure connoisseur of killing.
		It's a job Kodiak finds himself forced to accept, a decision that draws him into a multimillion-dollar game of cat and mouse.
		For Atticus and the assassin are bound by a common thread: their obsession to get the job done.
	www.scifan.com /titles/title.asp?TI_titleid=20980 (697 words)

	Keeper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Notes: Bodyguard Atticus Kodiak isn't the kind of knuckle-dragger who accompanies a Mafia don, but a Brooks Brothers^-attired pro trained by the government's Executive Protective Service.
		When Atticus accompanies his significant other to an abortion clinic that has been targeted by a militant right-to-life group, he inadvertently finds his next assignment: protecting the clinic's director, Dr.
		First, the book is filled with a proceduralist's insights into the difficulties faced by bodyguards in protecting anyone from deranged assailants, and, second, the author's scenes of orchestrated violence employed by the antiabortion group and his characterizations of people twisted enough to murder to protect life are chilling and have real narrative energy.
	www.kypris.com /Books/books/keeper.html (125 words)

	Amazon.fr : Shooting at Midnight : Livres en anglais (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Rucka takes an ill-advised breather near the middle of the novel, when Atticus assumes the first-person voice for a short section, but he then forges ahead with a flourish that might remind readers of the late Eugene Izzi.
		At the close, the cops, the dealers and the troubled lovers (Atticus and Bridgett) all collide in a breathless barrage of betrayal and brutality.
		This is the fourth in the Atticus Kodiak series (Smoker, 1998, etc.), though here the professional bodyguard with the sensibility of a poet is at the periphery of the action.
	www.amazon.fr /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/english-books/0553578278/reviews (1093 words)

	Mystery Guide - Keeper by Greg Rucka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In this debut, he's hired to guard a female doctor and her Down's Syndrome daughter, who are being targeted by violent anti-abortion protestors.
		The author is young, Atticus and his crew of fellow bodyguards are young, and I'm guessing that this book will most appeal to the young, since it resembles a good Hollywood summer action-flick.
		Its major theme, the ethics of abortion, is one that is especially important to younger people; and its combination of liberal politics and martial arts will resonate with the twenty-something crowd.
	www.mysteryguide.com /bkRuckaKeeper.html (227 words)

	Books : Shooting at Midnight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Greg Rucka has earned a devoted following for his edgy Atticus Kodiak thrillers, Finder, Keeper, and Smoker. Now, in an electrifying new suspense novel, Rucka puts us in the heart and brain of Kodiak's friend and lover, Bridgett Logan, a young woman living life on her own terms-and living it on the edge. Shooting at Midnight.
		Greg Rucka has been writing suspense novels for about 7 or 8 years now, up til now focusing on the curiously named Atticus Kodiak, and bodyguard and security specialist who lives and works in New York City.
		For Atticus, a coming to terms and a better understanding of love, hate and the dividing lines between a forgotten past and an uncertian future.
	www.prep4usmle.com /0553578278/Shooting_at_Midnight.htm (523 words)

	The Keeper Book at Shop Ireland
		The main character Atticus Kodiak is a bodyguard with a heart and a conscience, and good support from his employees who are believable and warm.
		The story, which concerns protecting a doctor working in an abortion clinic does not shy away from the moral ambiguities inherent in the setting, nor does our hero manage to protect all those who deserve protection.
		A likeable new hero, and one whose further investigations I will be happy to share.
	www.shopireland.ie /books/detail/0553574280/The-Keeper (532 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 99019814
		Private investigator Bridgett Logan has shared a great deal with Atticus Kodiak since they were brought together by a case.
		But she has sworn Atticus will never know about the life she has put behind her, and so Bridgett walks alone, without backup, without explanation, vanishing from view.
		For by the time Atticus learns why Bridgett has dropped from sight, it may be far too late....
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/random046/99019814.html (384 words)

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