After reading Strong Cold Dead, book eight in the series last year did I buy the first two books in the series. I haven't gotten to them yet, but I plan to have a Caitlin Strong marathon someday! Anyway, when I got the chance to read this book did I not hesitate. I loved Strong Cold Dead and I couldn't wait to read this one!

Part of the reason that I like this series so much is the parallel storylines that have a connection with each other. In this, we get to meet Caitlin's grandfather Earl Strong who is hunting a murderer who killed three men in a Nazi PW camp in Texas. What is the connection? Well, Caitlin is hunting a neo-Nazi gang and there are some things that combine the case in the past with the one in the present. Also, Caitlin herself has to face her own past when a young girl is sexually assaulted, which bring back dark memories for her.

As usual is the writing wonderful and the story engaging. I like Caitlin Strong very much, she's a strong woman and in this book, we learn what makes her join the Texas Rangers. Also, I love the quotations about Texas Rangers before every chapter. Reading this book really makes me wanna get to the unread books I have. I find the characters, both the ones in the present like Caitlin and Cort Wesley, etc. to Caitlin's own family of Texas Rangers that goes back several generations fascinating. This is a book that you definitely can read as a stand-alone, of course with the risk of being hooked!

George Orwell once wrote that ‘People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.’

This is the ninth book in the Caitlin Strong series and I do believe I would have gotten more out of this story if I'd read the other eight books. That isn't to say I didn't enjoy this book because I did. I just feel that it would have been more fleshed out with a background on Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong.

This story actually starts in a German POW camp in Texas. That was interesting to me because there was actually a German POW camp here in the town I live in back when it was Camp White, Oregon.

The story alternates between 1944 and present day and is an exciting look at what might have happened.

J. Edgar Hoover, rape, pharmaceutical drugs, and Nazis all play a part in this story with Ranger Caitlin Strong and her boyfriend Cort Wesley Masters leading the investigations. There was a lot of action even though sometimes I had to suspend my disbelief when events "became stranger than fiction."

I received this book from Forge Books through Net Galley in the hopes that I would read it and leave an unbiased review.

Strong to the Bone by Jon Land is very interesting and easy to read. When I began reading this book I had no idea that the author had written many other books featuring Catlin Strong. Now I want to read all of them.. She comes from an interesting family and the book is is well . written. with a strong plot.

Nazis, Aryan Nation, Hells Angels, drug running, illegal aliens, FBI, Homeland Security, Venezuelan hitmen, a corporate raider, greed, politics, and Texas Rangers converge in Jon Land‘s latest Caitlin Strong thriller, Strong to the Bone. A secret calls out from the past of WW2, to come home to roost in Caitlin’s latest case. A secret so frightening to the average American that the US government made sure it lay hidden away for 70 years. A secret that her grandfather found himself smack dab in the middle of during the waning years of the Second World War.

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Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong is out to combat some of the most vile criminals of her career, neo-Nazis. in Land’s newest entry in the series. And this case is personal for Caitlin, as she faces off with a killer her father, trued and failed to take down. Armand Fisker leads a group of loathsome and deadly followers who want to destabilize the United States by unleashing a biological weapon sure to kill millions. But Caitlin isn’t going to let that happen, and she’ll pull out every weapon she has to stop it. This certainly is a timely topic, with neo-Nazis marching the streets of America, hanging swastikas over streets that their father and grandfathers died defending against the march of the Third Reich. I also love that Land has made his character, a tough as nails, take no prisoners protagonist, a woman. If you haven’t read this series, you really should, because it’s fantastic