Review: Troy Cook's 47 Rules of Highly Effective Bank Robbers

Author: Troy Cook
Publishers: Capital Crime Press
ISBN: 0977627667

Expanding his literary talents, screenwriter and director Troy Cook has developed his own quirky style as he enters the mystery-comedy arena with his debut novel 47 Rules of Highly Effective Bank Robbers. The use of wacky humor with mystery is a difficult balancing act that is feat for even the most seasoned writer, nonetheless, Cook manages to cleverly pull it off.

The plot is set in the Florida Panhandle as it zeros in on a psychopath, Wyatt Evans, and his daughter Tara. After her mother is killed, Tara, at the tender age of nine is introduced by her wicked father into the world of crime. The father and daughter team think nothing of robbing banks and killing anyone who gets in their way, as they adhere to their own set of forty seven rules. In their world crime does in fact pay, and as long as you follow the rules you will certainly get away with it, even though it may seem evil.

Wyatt is also obsessed with completely controlling Tara and when at the age of twenty-two she falls in love and runs away with Max, the son of a small town sheriff, you can well imagine her father