Book info

• Title Odds On
• Author Michael Crichton
• Year 1966
• Genre Thriller

Steven Jencks has planned the perfect crime. Working with two skilled associates, he will hit the Reina, a super-luxury hotel off the coast of Spain, and then walk away with the haul of a lifetime. As the ultimate pro, Jencks has even run his plan through a complex computer simulation to account for every possible variable... Except three. Their names are Annette, Cynthia, and Jenny. And no computer could ever simulate what these three femmes fatales have up their sleeves.

Thoughts

It took me far too long to get into this, there were too many characters initially and we were chopping between them too quickly. But once the pieces were gathered together and the heist story started emerging, then it was really fun, particularly the twist where the safe was empty! The banana obsessed Mrs Shaw was a suspicious character from the beginning but still quite a lot of fun to see how it all played out.

Rating: 3 / 5