The Specialists: Plunder

Cunningham (War Cry) introduces a new series featuring the Specialists, an elite, international team fighting against terrorism, corruption, drug cartels and other evil. When the six Specialists are sent to Berlin to investigate the suspicious death of George Silokowski, an American, it becomes clear that the victim was trying to track down a missing fortune (part of tens of millions of dollars siezed by the Nazis in WWII) that belonged to his Jewish grandfather. The Specialists, whose trigger-happy members have been hand-picked from the U.S. Navy, CIA and FBI by an eccentric millionaire, must find out who was involved in the Nazi crime, where they are now, what happened to the missing money and why Silokowski and others hot on the trail of the plunderers ended up dead. The trail eventually leads to the heads of some of the most powerful corporations in Germany and to a one-eyed hit man against whom Specialist Wade Thorne has a personal vendetta. While there are interesting twists, the story is marred by too many coincidences. (Dec.)