Product Description

What if the wrong guy, turns out to be the right guy for you? Caesar Serrano thought he screwed up when he landed in the bed of LAPD Officer Nathan Reilly. But when Caesar breaks into the wrong house and stumbles upon a heinous crime, implicating a high ranking LAPD officer, Nate is the only person he knows to turn to. The resulting investigation throws the Blue Brigade into panic. Now he's running for his life and Nate is his only hope for survival. Can two men, on opposite sides of the law, come together to bring a monster to justice?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #580854 in Books
• Published on: 2008-04-20
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

Customer Reviews

Good cop, bad ...
Excellent read here! If you want to find two protagonists who are less alike and most likely NOT to make a go of a relationship, it is hard to find a better combination than an honest (and hot, hunky, muscled, tall, blond and handsome) cop (Nate) and a hard, lean, black haired, sexy, Hispanic, professional housebreaker/thief (Caesar). How can such a pair make it work as a relationship (aside from the continuous, HOT, passionate sex)? Only if one of them is willing to make a major change: either the good cop goes bad (so not going to happen) or the thief finds a way to make necesssary changes in his life and goes "straight," so to speak (fortunately not his sexuality). That's the crux of this novel and I actually thought Buchanan did an excellent job first of developing a steamy hot, passionate attraction between two very unlikely candidates for "couple of the year." Then, he put them under considerable conflict both between the two and with the two against outside forces and gave the thief a chance to redeem himself. Then the stress of the situation strained the "relationship" so that the reader doesn't really know whether or not a happy ending is actually going to come of all this stress. All along the way, the two hunks find their overwhelming attraction for one another getting in the way, then getting stronger, then leading both to look for ways to stay together. Damn fun read: the two characters, flaws and all, are both real, the conflict between the two is real, the stress from an outside event is highly credible in the way it affects everyone in the book, and the sex is awsome. Good romance story, good action adventure story, good erotic story, good characters. Great read. Go for it.

The Good Thief by James Buchanan
Well I think this book is my preferrend among James Buchanan's books I have read.

Caesar is a "good" thief: he is a burglar but he is a good guy inside. From the Ispanic side of the city, like a lot of guy like him he hasn't had a chance to become a good next boy door. From little thefts to big housebreaks the step is short and it passes through some convictions. But Caesar is also a very handsome guy. So he has his share of adventures and one of them leads him to Nate, a fair hair All American Boy he meets at a party.

Caesar has always had one night stands or little more (for him a long relationship is a guy who lasts three appointments) and so he delves into the chance to spend one night with Nate. But when the morning after he finds out that Nate is a cop, he leaves in an hurry. But then an accidental encounter with Nate leads to another hot sex session. And two. Nate is quickly becoming a long last relationship...

So when Caesar, during one of his "cleaning home work", finds some child pornography material, he can't ignore the thing and the first person he searches for help is Nate. But Nate is a cop and he has to do the right thing, and Caesar is a thief...

Caesar is the classical bad boy you can't resist. He sweats sex from every pore and he is also very nice (he has a very cute little dog who helps him to play the role of bad boy with heart). He doesn't hesitate a bit to do the right thing, even if it could be the wrong thing for his life. He is funny and has a easy way to approach life, but he is not selfish.

Nate is the good boy. Right family, right side of the street, maybe not a "straight" guy, but he has a family which supports him (even if we can read a bit of tension with his father, ex-cop). He doesn't hide his homosexuality, but he doesn't flaunt it. He works out, so when his colleagues see him, they see a big and tought man, and nobody has the courage to trouble him. But he can't prevent what is said behind his shoulders... and he heard them. So he is not at all easy with his sexual life, but he can't deny what he feels for Caesar, it's a too strong feeling. And like a good boy he doesn't hide nothing.

I like both Caesar then Nate, but maybe I have a soft spot for Nate, this big guy who is so sure of himself that has no problem to be a total bottom in bed, but only in a sexual way, cause Caesar and Nate are two very balanced characters in the day to day life.

The plot is a good mix of detective story, funny elements (don't miss the dog), good and health sex, and romance.

THE GOOD THIEF by James Buchanan
I read this author's story COYOTE CROSSING (also 5 stars) in the ARRESTING DEVELOPMENTS e-anthology from Aspen Mountain Press and loved it so much I decided I needed to give one of the author's other books a shot. So I checked out the backlist, found one of the longer books, and started reading. And then I couldn't put it down! This book is hot from page one.

Cop drama/suspense is not usually my cup of tea. THE GOOD THIEF is based on all the elements that usually make me roll my eyes and quit reading. One night stand, relationship between the Law Enforcement Officer and the Crook With a Heart of Gold, good cops/bad cops, political controversy, guardian/ward romance...all the things that, in the hands of a lesser author, would amount to nothing more than a bad episode of CSI. So how does James Buchanan make it work? Talent, that's how.

The plot here is good and solid. It's fairly simple, nothing too uncommon or outlandish, and the progress is straightforward and pretty true to real life. James doesn't try to reinvent the wheel here, but instead works with the familiar and keeps it real. I love the author's word choices. Buchanan uses everyday language, peppered with the Spanglish that I hear every day. But where this author really shines is characterization.

James Buchanan knows how to write amazing characters. Caesar and Nate practically jump off the page. I have a hard time picturing characters in my head when I'm reading a book, but I had no trouble picturing Caesar and Nate. They're incredibly real, and though their situation is a bit dramatic, their reactions to each other and the world around them are very appropriate.

There's no overwrought soap opera angst, no Big Misunderstanding, no crack psychology, and no cheesy public service announcements in this story. It's a suspenseful cop drama, but more than anything else it's a romance. This author obviously understands love and relationships, because I felt myself really relating to the two men and their love for one another.

This review isn't complete without a quick mention of the love scenes and the chemistry in this story. I felt like I was intruding into something very special and private. The love scenes are incredibly hot and sensual, yet so intimate and emotional that I felt like a voyeur. Even that first steamy encounter sizzled with electricity. There are some hot hookups in this book, but nothing cheap or trashy. Their sexual encounters are all intensly emotional, charged with energy and testosterone, and filled with promise.

It's really rare for me to actually connect with authors and their characters, so this book was a real treat for me. I plan to look up James Buchanan's entire backlist very soon.