Green to Go (Buck Reilly Adventure Series)
Green to Go (Buck Reilly Adventure Series) book cover

Green to Go (Buck Reilly Adventure Series)

Paperback – June 23, 2012

Price
$15.95
Format
Paperback
Pages
286
Publisher
Greene Street, LLC
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-0985442217
Dimensions
6 x 0.64 x 9 inches
Weight
14.6 ounces

Description

" Green To Go is a rip-roaring, lock you to your seat adventure that careens through the Caribbean with the momentum of a crash landing. Great characters, excellent suspense, just enough romance, and lots of action, all bound together with the author's crisp writing style." Michael Reisig, author of The Road To Key West "John Cunningham's "Crystal Blue" will make you a Buck Reilly fan, if you're not already.xa0You'll be reading all night because the page-turner of a book will keep you wondering until the last pages." Michael Haskins, Author, Mick Murphy Key West mystery series I'm pleased to release the 2nd book in the Buck Reilly series, Green To Go. My goal with the series is to create a protagonist who is more Everyman than Superman, and since it's written in the first person, it helps readers see the story through Buck's eyes. I love the Florida Keys, Cuba and all of the different Caribbean and Bahamian islands, and Buck's adventures, challenges and difficulties will carry him to many of them. Buck's a good guy but not infallible, and he's used to breaking rules, but no longer for personal gain. I hope you enjoy spending time with this reluctant hero as much as I do writing about him. I appreciate your comments, reviews, Facebook and Twitter posts, so all the best! Enjoy, JC "Red Right Return is a high-energy romp through the streets of Key West and the skyways of the Florida Straits. Cunningham's treasure-hunting, amphibian-flying hero, Buck Reilly, could be a reincarnation of Travis McGee with wings. RRR is the first in what will surely be a series of classic Florida adventure novels. Great fun, highly recommended." - Robert Gandt, author of the Brick Maxwell series Author John H. Cunningham has a background as eclectic as his literary subjects. Once the editor in chief of The Pro Review, a magazine for professional photographers, he has also enjoyed a long career as a commercial real estate professional. Like his fiction protagonist, Buck Reilly, he's also an aviation enthusiast, island hopper and an avid escapist. xa0 John lives in Virginia with his wife and two daughters, and spends much of his time traveling. His choices for the places and plots that populate the Buck Reilly series include many subjects that he loves: Key West, Cuba, the Bahamas, and multiple Caribbean settings, along with amphibious aircraft, colorful characters, and stories that concern themselves with the same tensions and issues that affect all of our lives. xa0 He developed Buck Reilly as a protagonist who is more everyman than superman to create a hero on a human scale, with many of the same strengths and weaknesses as the rest of us. Wrapping these elements into a genre that is both popular and under-supplied, his work offers a compelling escape for readers who like against the odds stories in tropical settings. Read more

Features & Highlights

  • Buck Reilly went to hell and back in Red Right Return. In Green To Go, it's a one-way trip. Good news turns bad fast, and the bad just keeps coming in this thrilling new Buck Reilly adventure. The unexpected contents of his parent's Swiss bank account offer Buck a chance to dig himself out of the hole he's been in since the recession hit, but first he must recover the treasure maps and clues he lost at sea. Those plans get put on hold when a friend is accused of orchestrating the biggest theft in Key West's sordid history, and the FBI uses Buck's past against him to demand that he search for the thieves who fled aboard a hundred year-old schooner.

Customer Reviews

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Buck's Back!

I noticed it in the last Buck Reilly adventure, and I'm going to say it again. John Cunningham's ability to keep the story light-hearted while tackling some interesting political issues is really excellent. Buck is such a great character, downtrodden and sincere in his failure but also retaining a level of hope and positivity that keeps the reader rooting for him through the whole book. Any story about Buck could be a winner, but the fact that Cunningham puts him in theoretical Cuba right after the death of the Castro brothers, or in the middle of a heist of gold with political significance, is a testament to Cunningham's ability to spin a really engaging story while making the reader think.

It isn't just Buck who's great, all the characters seem effortlessly well rounded. I appreciate Cunningham's way of creating characters who, at first glance, could be light hearted clichés, but there's always something more about them. It keeps the reading experience light and comfortable, but lets the reader feel as though they're really getting something out of the book. I was pretty sure I could tell where it was going, but there were a couple of suspenseful occasions where I was gripping the book, hoping that this wasn't it for old Buck!

I don't know what it is about Miami, but it sure does produce some quality reads. Cunningham again throws out some stunning lines and descriptive passages. He has a lovely way of making the reader feel right there, and completely invested in the action. Hopefully Buck makes a reappearance soon!
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Decent sequel, will continue with series

3.5 stars

Buck is back at it again. This is book 2 in the series and takes place right after the first one with buck at the bank trying to find out if he decoded the cypher correctly. The action quickly picks up when the island museum is robbed of its multimillion dollar artifacts. FBI agent booth calls in one of the favors on buck and now he’s off to track down the treasure. This storyline ends up interweaving with the previous book.

I did enjoy this book and some things that I didn’t like about the first one were improved here. It’s a fun beach read but not much more than that. Karen conveniently leaves so buck can find a new “most beautiful girl” he’s ever seen. I’m sure the new one will be gone by next book also. I will continue to read this series but I’m going to need to throw so other books in between or I think I’d get burnt out of this series.

3.5 stars
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JUST A GREAT READ WHILE SITTING ON A TROPICAL ISLAND SIPPING SOME PUSSER'S RUM

MANY HOURS OF ENJOYABLE READING !!!!!!!!!!!!
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Excellent story

Read before great series
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Seaplane Adventures!

Planes, Key West and adventure! I really enjoyed this book. Believable tale and string character development left me waiting for book three in this series!
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Great follow up!

If you read my first review you'll know I really liked the first book. I liked it a lot because again, it's a fast read full of action.

And again, I wanted to dislike Buck but god help me, I can't. He's the kind of character that literally has nothing good going for him in his life and literally everything he does puts him in terrible situations. At the end of the first book I really wanted to know if he'd recover what his parents had left him and his brother and holy moly, Batman- what they left Buck is absolutely NOT what I thought they would. Talk about game changer. It actually made me feel worse for Buck because after his brother writes him off basically it's like he's left with nobody.

And then of course life just can't stop kicking him in the ass because a rowdy night of drinking lands him in a drunk tank and coincidentally, the witness of a huge treasure heist and then mayhem and crazyness ensues.

I so very much love John's writing with these books because he writes as if these characters are real, you can totally picture the settings and you feel like you are right there with a little Jimmy Buffett playing in the background. I also love how absolutely nothing goes right for Buck and how no matter what he does, he's bombarded with pretty much every bad guy you could encounter while out looking for your friend and some treasure.

Excellent writing, excellent story, excellent characters. It's such a fun read that keeps you wondering how the hell Buck is going to fix the mess he's in. I give this one 5/5 stars. Good stuff.
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The first book was good ...the follow up is great...hope the pattern continues cannot wait to follow Buck around the globe
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Another Winner For John Cunningham

John Cunningham and Buck Reilly have done it again! They both keep getting better and better!
Green To Go is a rip-roaring, lock you to your seat adventure that careens through the Caribbean with the momentum of a crash landing. Great characters, excellent suspense, just enough romance, and lots of action, all bound together with the author's crisp writing style, eye for details, and sense of timing that gives the entire tale a crackling reality. You're going to love this one!
- Michael Reisig
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Fun Caribbean Adventure!

This book is such a good read. Cunningham is a great writer and I loved going on this adventure with Buck Reilly! I haven't read the first yet but after reading Green to Go I definitely will. I loved the Caribbean setting and highly recommend this to anyone looking for a good adventure book!
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Awesome adventure

If you want a book that takes you to sandy shores, adds adventure that will have you on the edge of your seat, airplanes that will have you Googling for images, beautiful women, tobacco farms, 100 year-old sailing vessels, Rum and Romance.... Look no further than the newest offering from author J.H. Cunningham.

Green to Go is a continuation of the Buck Riley Adventure, that began in Cunningham's book Red Right Return, that will take you from the Bahamas down the Florida Keys, across the Gulf to Mexico and beyond, flying in style beside Buck in his Grumman G-44 Widgeon and reading as fast as you can to see what will happen in the next paragraph, page and chapter.

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