Crystal Blue

In this third installment in Cunningham's Buck Reilly Adventure series, Buck%E2%80%94the former head of a successful treasure-hunting company%E2%80%94finds himself flying charter planes to the Florida Keys and Virgin Islands. When he accepts a gig ferrying around celebrities for a benefit concert, he thinks it will be easy money and a chance to meet famous people. But then one of the show's promoters disappears and one of the performers is kidnapped, and Reilly finds himself investigating the crimes and going head to head with black marketeers and Russian mobsters. Although fans of the series will enjoy this latest adventure and readers will find the happy-go-lucky world of the keys and islands entertaining, aspects of Cunningham's narrative are difficult to follow and needlessly complicated, preventing readers from engaging with Buck and the other characters.