If you enjoy watching the TV series Burn Notice you will love this book. The all too familiar “When you are a spy…” narrative sets the stage and guides the reader through the story. When compared to the show, the book is less clean and more mean, however. There is a difference in language and tone. ... Book Review: Burn Notice: The Fix By Tod Goldberg » Katarina Nolte
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This is an original novel based on the recent popular spy drama series, Burn Notice (which aired in the summers of 2007 and 2008 on the USA network and returns in January 2009 with more new episodes). Goldberg manages to take an extremely stylized TV series and capture much of that feel on the printed page. This novel makes extensive use of main character Michael Westen's "on-screen" narration -- a tribute to such 1980s series as Magnum, P.I., where the hero keeps up a running monologue to us in the audience. Burn Notice has a wicked sense of dark humor, and Goldberg captures that essence pretty well, too. The main characters -- Michael, Sam and Fiona, are all extremely well defined, although some of the supporting characters is this novel come off as slightly two-dimensional. Never-the-less, Goldberg's wry humor, incredibly fast pacing, and complex caper-related plot make The Fix a very worthy tie-in novel for fans of the series. I would also recommend it to fans of Florida-set thrillers, such as those written by Carl Hiaasen, Elmore Leonard and Tim Dorsey.

Originally reviewed for my local library's website: http://www.lincolnlibraries.org/depts/bookguide/srec/staffrec08-10.htm ( )

The best tie-in novel I've read. It is truly like 'watching' an episode. It fits the series to a tee. ( )

Tod Goldberg does a great job of capturing Michael’s voice and, since the voice-overs on the show give us a sense of experiencing things through Michael’s POV anyway, having the story here told that way worked well. Another reason his ability to capture Michael was so important. Fans of the show wouldn’t have made it past the first chapter if he’d had it wrong. Tod also managed to do what the writers are doing so well this season, weave the burn notice story in and around the victim of the week story. Michael gets himself into a pretty tight spot in the book but his solution both ridiculous and believable at the same time. That doesn’t sound like a compliment but, trust me, it is. The story works not only because you can picture each thing as it’s happening but also because you want to see it. I suspect what makes books feature TV show characters a success is when you put it down and wish you had it on DVD so you could watch it all play out on screen.This is just an excerpt of my full review at my TV blog, RTVW Online. ( )