Fin­ished Burn Notice: The Fix by Tod Gold­berg. This book is a tie-in based on the TV show of the same name. I really enjoy the show, so when I heard there were going to be some com­pan­ion books, I snapped this one up.

Note: I’ve got to give a shout-out to HelenKay Dimon for first post­ing about the book on her blog. Oth­er­wise, I don’t know that I would have found out about it (or the oth­ers that are planned). So thanks, HelenKay!

In true Burn Notice fash­ion, this book finds Michael reluc­tantly agree­ing to help a wealthy socialite find her way­ward hus­band, who turns out to be a con man who’s steal­ing all her money. Michael also has to deal with a deadly Russ­ian spy who thinks Michael is a drug dealer and respon­si­ble for some of her prob­lems. She demands that Michael come up with $3 mil­lion for her to pay off her bosses — or else.

If you like the TV show, you’ll love this book. Gold­berg really nailed Michael’s voice and the over­all tone of the TV show. I could almost hear Jef­frey Dono­van doing his usual sar­donic voice-overs in many places. The voice was def­i­nitely the best part of the book and really made you feel like you were read­ing an episode of the show.

I also enjoyed get­ting a lit­tle more insight into and back­ground on Michael’s rela­tion­ship with Fiona, his spy mis­sions with Sam, and his mem­o­ries of his father.

The only thing I didn’t quite get was the end­ing. The con man hus­band has been impres­onat­ing a real hard­core, black-ops mil­i­tary type. Michael deals with the hus­band, then he gets the black-ops guy involved in his own deal with the Russ­ian spy. Michael takes the black-ops guy down with the Russ­ian spy. But I didn’t really under­stand why Michael needed to do any­thing with the black-ops guy. The con man hus­band was the one using the black-ops guy’s name/identity, mak­ing him the vic­tim of iden­tity theft. I think I missed some­thing when I was read­ing. (And I hope this para­graph wasn’t too confusing).

But over­all, if you love the TV show or you’re just look­ing for a fun, breezey after­noon read, pick up The Fix. I enjoyed it, and I’m look­ing for­ward to the other books in the series. Thumbs up.

Up next: Swine Not? by Jimmy Buffett

Books in my TBR pile: About 17 or so.