"Blackbird Road is as compelling as its two predecessors. It has a plot full of twists and turns, moves along at a breakneck pace that reaches close to warp speed at certain points, has plenty of full-blooded action scenes and, of course, features a return visit to the ‘bromance’ that is Jake and Bear. If you’re after a book to read for sheer enjoyment that will keep you turning the pages way after the time you meant to put it down, then look no further than Blackbird Road." - Cathy, Goodreads
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Published: September 25th, 2018
With his wedding day fast approaching and his PI boss heading out of town, ex-mob enforcer Jake Caldwell decides to take one more job before a much-needed vacation. But in a matter of days, his client is assassinated and her six-year-old son kidnapped.
With just a few clues, Jake calls on old friends to help track down the person responsible. Only this time his fiancée Maggie, desperate for Jake to leave his violent history behind, can’t guarantee she’ll be there when, or if, he comes home.
But Jake can’t turn his back on those who need him. It’s in his blood.
A perilous plot of lies and secrets unfolds, and Jake encounters criminals more brutal than ever. And when a threat to thousands of innocent lives is uncovered, Jake once again dives back into his past, requesting favors from some unexpected and unsavory contacts.
Jake needs to stay one step ahead of the bad guys if he’s to have any future at all.
The third book in the award-winning JAKE CALDWELL series is an intense, complex, and frantic race against time. Weaver has done it again in this raw and riveting read set in the Ozarks.
GUEST POST
Jake and Bear Debate Their Top Five Favorite Movies
Author Note: Since these two are reasonably fresh off nabbing the bad guys in Ares Road and are about to embark on another adventure with a couple of deadly Russian spies in Blackbird Road, it might be a good time to check in with them before the action gets too heavy. I’ll have to say they both kind of bitched and moaned about doing a blog stop, but acquiesced when I threatened to have them both shot in the crotch in the next book if they didn’t do it. Okay fellas, for the sake of your future relationship with your loved ones, give us your top five favorite movies. GO!
Jake - #5 – Dances with Wolves
JAKE: I love this 1990 Western movie starring Kevin Costner, especially the director’s cut even though it’s like four hours long. The score is amazing as is the cinematography. A story about a soldier in search of himself who finds a home among the savage Indians. I can still say his name in Sioux – Sunkmanitu Tanka Ob Waci.
BEAR: Jesus, you’re a dork. You trying to be one of those critic guys? Yeah, this movie is pretty decent. The best character in it is that Indian named Wind in His Hair. That dude was badass. Not a bad pick, Caldwell.
Bear - #5 – The Outlaw Josey Wales
BEAR: Okay, we’ll stick with the Western theme and I’ll go with good ole Clint Eastwood in the 1976 classic The Outlaw Josey Wales. For having such an awful first name of Josey, this movie about a Missouri farmer whose family gets slaughtered by a bunch of soldiers during the Civil War and takes his revenge with a pair of six shooters is just bad ass. Whupped ‘em again, didn’t we Josey?
JAKE: Whupped ‘em again, boy. Yeah, my father Stony and I watched this movie all the time when I was a kid. It was one of the few things he seemed to enjoy out of life besides drinking and shooting pool. Good pick.
Jake - #4 – Fight Club
JAKE: My number four pick is the classic 1999 film Fight Club with Edward Norton and Brad Pitt about a couple of dudes, well kind of a couple, who start an underground fighting ring as a weird way to get back to the basics. Their ring involves into some major mayhem and it’s a real mind-bender ending, but brilliant.
BEAR: That one was a little deep for me. I don’t want to have to think that damn hard watching a movie.
JAKE: You freaking fell asleep a fourth of the way through it, so I’m not sure you’re qualified to say shit about it. It’s a great flick.
BEAR: If you say so. Admit it. You just like watching Brad Pitt with his shirt off.
JAKE: The dude was ripped for that movie. I’d love to have those abs.
BEAR: You really worry me sometimes.
Bear - #4 – Hell or High Water
BEAR: My number four pick is the 2016 film Hell or High Water starring that dude who was in the new Star Trek movies and Jeff Bridges. It’s about a couple of brothers robbing banks in Texas and Jeff Bridges is a Texas Ranger and is just freaking brilliant in it. What the hell was that other guy’s name in it?
JAKE: Chris Pine.
BEAR: Yeah, that’s right. Bridges was up for an Oscar for it and lost to the guy in that movie Moonlight that everyone went gaga about.
JAKE: Moonlight sucked goat balls.
BEAR: I agree. The first third of it was pretty good and then it went off the rails. Hell or High Water is fantastic and I still say Bridges got screwed.
Jake - #3 – Pulp Fiction
JAKE: I just watched this 1994 classic again last week and it is, by far, Tarantino’s best work. Such a mind blowing way to put a movie together and the cast is incredible. I mean, who is not in that movie?
BEAR: Jeff Bridges.
JAKE: But, you have John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis, Christopher Walken, Ving Rhames, Harvey Keitel and a shit load of other people. So many classic lines in that. I love it.
BEAR: It was weird. I mean, that whole bring out the gimp scene? That was messed up, man. Decent film, but not one of my favorites.
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Bear - #3 – Rocky
BEAR: My number three pick is the winner for best picture back in 1976 – the classic underdog story Rocky. Rocky is a debt collector working for a Mafioso type dude who is given a shot at the heavy weight boxing championship of the world. Debt collecting for a mafia guy, you can relate to that, right?
JAKE: You really took it there? Asshole.
BEAR: This is one of those movies that if it’s on TV, you have to stop what you’re doing and watch it.
JAKE: Agree. Very solid pick.
Jake - #2 – Unforgiven
JAKE: My number two best movie is another Western – Unforgiven with Clint Eastwood. It is, without a doubt, the greatest Western of all time. I think it won Best Picture and Best Director back in 1992. Clint is awesome as William Munny, an ex-outlaw gunslinging killer who has changed his ways, but gets sucked back into it to collect a bounty on some woman raping rednecks. Plus, it has Morgan Freeman in it and that is always a plus.
BEAR: Agree. This is a fantastic movie, but name anything Eastwood’s done that isn’t awesome.
JAKE: Honkeytonk Man where he’s the singer. That movie blew.
BEAR: Oh yeah. Think I blocked that one out. And the fact that he put that Sandra Locke in almost everything. I never understood why he did that.
JAKE: He was sleeping with her.
Bear - #2 – The Shawshank Redemption
BEAR: My number two best movie of all time is the 1994 prison break movie The Shawshank Redemption about a banker wrongfully imprisoned for murdering his wife and his lover. And bonus, it’s another Morgan Freeman movie. If you haven’t seen this movie, there’s something seriously wrong with you.
JAKE: You asshole. That was my number one pick.
BEAR: Weaver never said we couldn’t have the same ones. At least we agreed it is one of the best movies of all time.
JAKE: You’re always trying to steal my thunder.
BEAR: Get over it, you big baby.
Jake - #1 – Shawshank Redemption
JAKE: Guess you all already know what my number one is so not much more to say.
BEAR: Heh heh.
Bear - #1 – Jaws
BEAR: My number one is the 1975 adventure film by Stephen Spielberg about a giant ass shark terrorizing a town in New England. Even though it made me not want to ever go into the ocean, it is a classic. Robert Shaw is my favorite and the scene where he tells his tale of being on the USS Indianapolis is one of the best movie scenes ever.
JAKE: Did you know he was completely hammered when he did that scene?
BEAR: No shit?
JAKE: Best monologue in any movie ever.
Jake – Sleeper Pick – End of Watch
JAKE: My sleeper pick is the cop drama End of Watch with Jake Gyllenhaal from 2012. I just saw this one the other day and don’t even remember it being in the theaters. But, Gyllenhaal plays a South Central LA cop along with Michael Pena. It’s shot kind of like an episode of Cops. It’s incredibly intense
and I was completely blown away how much I liked this movie.
BEAR: I agree. Great movie. Audrey couldn’t handle it though. Too intense and too many f-bombs dropped in it.
JAKE: Like she hasn’t heard you say that every other word before.
BEAR: I think I heard it was like the seventh most uses of the f-word in any movie ever. Still, great sleeper pick.
Bear – Sleeper Pick – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
BEAR: My sleeper pick is another oldie, the 1975 nuthouse classic One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest with Jack Nicholson. He plays Randle P. McMurphy who is pretty much a shithead and fakes being mentally ill so he can get out of his prison detail. They send him to this institution ran with an iron fist by this tight-ass Nurse Ratched and his whole plan tragically backfires. Love this movie.
JAKE: Heard of it, but never saw it.
BEAR: Seriously? What the hell is wrong with you? How can you not have seen this?
JAKE: I read the book by Ken Kesey. Didn’t think I needed to see it.
BEAR: There’s a book?
JAKE: Yeah, you dumb galoot. A lot of great movies are based off books.
BEAR: Like, what else?
JAKE: The Shawshank Redemption. Based on a novella by Stephen King. Jaws based on the novel by Peter Benchley.
BEAR: No shit? I need to read more.
JAKE: You said it, not me.
About the author:
James L Weaver is the Kansas City author of the Jake Caldwell series featuring IAN Thriller of the Year finalist Poor Boy Road, and the IAN Thriller of the Year finalist and New Apple Official Selection sequel Ares Road from Lakewater Press. He makes his home in Olathe, Kansas with his wife of 20 years and two children. His previous publishing credits include a six part story called "The Nuts" and his 5-star rated debut novel Jack & Diane which is available on Amazon.com. Author note: a handful of the raters are actually not related to him.
His limited free time is spent writing into the wee hours of the morning, playing parental taxi cab to his kids' sporting endeavors, and binge watching Netflix and Amazon Prime.
Current favorite TV shows: The Walking Dead, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Game of Thrones, The Resident and Shameless.
Current favorite music artists: Alter Bridge, Rush, Sara Bareilles, Halestorm
Last best book read: Twisted Prey by John Sandford
Favorite comedians: John Caparulo, Kathleen Madigan, Mike Birbiglia, John Mulaney
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