Gate 76 by Andrew Diamond is a contemporary detective story. The story begins as Freddy, a private investigator, observes a woman in distress as she is pulled through San Francisco airport. When she escapes and boards a different flight, Freddy feels compelled to find out what happened to her. The flight she skipped later explodes and Freddy is hired to look into what happened. This story has a fascinating plot and deep characters. At times, the characterization was a bit tangential and kept the story from flowing well. I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher with no obligations. These opinions are entirely my own.

Freddy Ferguson, former boxer and PI is the main character in Andrew Diamond?s thriller, Gate 76. Freddy observes a woman who is obviously forced to board a plane, then sneaks off and boards another. The plane she was supposed to be on crashes, and Freddy feels like something is up and follows up on the woman. Because she was listed on the flight, she is presumed dead, and even though Freddy knows she is hiding and very much alive, he attends her funeral picking up leads from her family into why these things may have happened. Freddy gets involved with the FBI and while searching for the woman, also gets involved with dirty politicians and other unsavory characters. Freddy wants to save the woman, who is a prostitute and drug user, before she is found by others who want to kill her; his search takes him cross country.

While Diamond has done an excellent job of developing Freddy?s character, he isn?t a character that is particularly likeable. In fact, he is low class and not one that most of us would like to interact with in real life. His language is atrocious, there is a lot of sexual innuendo involving him, and even though he seems to be a generous, caring individual, he isn?t someone most of us would typically turn to as a friend.

Freddy?s former boxing days take center stage in several places in the novel; the author is obviously familiar with the sport, and the scenarios ring true. There are dozens of twists and turns in the book, and some of the happenings are a bit far-fetched. However, since this is fiction, it can be believable with a bit of imagination.

With the exception of the foul language, which is not really necessary to tell the story and only serves to make the character unlikeable, the novel is well-written, the plot is good, and the story will keep readers on the edge.

Special thanks to NetGalley for supplying a review copy of this book.

Freddy Ferguson is in the airport when he notices a woman being held by a suspicious looking man who has his hand wrapped around her wrist. Out of curiosity, he follows to see what happens. She is escorted to her flight and then the man leaves her there after whispering something in her ear. The plane is going to Honolulu.

After her captor leaves and she looks around, she get out of the ramp and flees into the concourse. After entering a bathroom she comes out completely different and Freddy is intrigued. He knows something is up.

After he gets off the plane where he has gone to, his boss sent him a message to call as soon as he gets into Washington Dulles. He happens to look up at the CNN screen and the airplane the woman was supposed to take blew up and fell into the sea! He just knows he has to find her!

Freddie and his boss are hired to look into the plane crash, what happened and who is responsible. A cell phone video shows the plane blowing up in mid air. While his boss goes to San Francisco he starts his own investigation, and it quickly turns into an investigation of many people in high places guilty of every crime there is-money laundering, gambling, drug trafficking, as well as drug use by members of political and law enforcement.

This book is fast paced, has a great plot that twists and turns and I never saw what was coming around the corner! All the characters are well developed, and this book is amazing! I love this book and hope tp read more by this author!

I gave this book 5 suspenseful stars!

Anna and Freddy are both running from their live, they are just at different places in the running. The breadcrumbs that Freddy is chasing to find Anna leads him to so many sketchy characters that add more depth to this story and paint a world full of controversy. This story delves into politics, criminal justice at all levels and inside family life behind closed doors and the secrets and lies that live in all of those places. There are so many threads that connect in this story and that kind of puzzle kind keep a reader intrigued and unwilling to put the book down until they can see the whole picture. I recommend this book to lovers of mystery and suspense. Thank you Netgalley, Edelweiss and Stolen Time Press for a chance to review a copy of the final copy of this book.

WOW. This book was not at all what I thought it was going to be. LOVED it. Once I started, I couldnt put it down!!!

Good plot with enough twists to keep you turning the page. I recommend it! Author has a good feel for the characters and has developed the plot a good amount of suspense. .

“Gate 76” by Andrew Diamond is a modern thriller with a classic noir feel. Freddy Ferguson, A private detective with a dark and troubled past, notices a suspicious woman at San Francisco International airport. When the plane that lists her on the passenger manifest explodes, killing everyone on board, he resolves to find answers. The case mesmerizes the nation, and Freddy works to discover the truth. In the process, he uncovers corrupt politicians, dirty cops, and past secrets.
Diamond creates a complex tale with slow suspense, plot twists, and cliffhanger moments. The characters are numerous (almost too many) including the good, the not so good, and the ones who might be both.
I received a copy of “Gate 76” from Andrew Diamond, Stolen Time Press, and Net Galley. I recommend it for readers who want the old noir feel in a current setting. I am not usually a reader of noir, either classic or current, so it is hard for me to accurately rate a book of this genre, but I liked “Gate 76.” It has the elements of a good story, and the mixed chapter length gives readers needed breaks from the drama.

I received a digital copy of this book via Netgalley for the purposes of providing an unbiased review.

I liked Freddy Ferguson well enough in the beginning, but the further I got into the book, the less appealing he was as a narrator. He had a vaguely creepy way of looking at and describing women.

As a long-time Texan, I found the author's use of route xx to indicate Interstate Highways irritating. I-10, I-20, and I-30 are not piddly little rural routes. And you cannot turn south on "route 30" from 635. Seriously.

The mystery itself was solid, well within the limits of plausibility in today's political atmosphere, and compelling enough to keep me reading despite the negatives.

Weighed against the narrative voice, the author's style isn't enough to make me read another.

Give me a book by a new to me author any day after reading this!! The cover plus the synopsis was what drew me in. I am so glad I read this book. One chapter in and I was hooked! In the first little bit of the book, we learned about Freddy Ferguson's rough life before becoming a Private Investigator and also some more important parts of his life, parts that helped shape him into the man he is. There are so many twists that keep the story interesting and engaging and most definitely free from a predictable ending. The way he wrote about his characters makes me think he might be working on a series, and if so, I can not wait! 

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I enjoyed reading this book. The storyline was well thought out and fast paced with engaging characters,. It definitely kept me on the edge of my seat.

I really enjoyed this book and there was really only one flaw that made it hard to finish; it lagged towards the end. For most of the book, there is plenty of action and dialogue that keeps you engaged, but about 3/4ths of the way, it was too easy to see what was going to happen and the dialogue wasn't sharp enough to really carry it. I still really enjoyed the book and I still recommend it, just know that the last little bit isn't quite the same quality as the rest. I do have to say that the beginning of the book is great and there's quite a rush and a lot of momentum in the book overall. I really liked the flawed characters and the way you're given back story to know why they are the way they are. I really loved the main character, the former boxer, and his back story. All in all, I recommend checking it out.

I am right between a 3 and 4. The beginning was a wonderful set up for what was to come! What went from an airline disaster took an unexpected turn into politics, bad cops and corrupt businessmen. While some of it was really fast paced and the characters were well formed some of the other parts dragged on. I did love how they focused on the background of the two main characters which was excellent for the story line! All in all I would recommend this as a good read!

HEART POUNDING. Loved this mystery and the roller coaster ride the author took us on. All my guesses were wrong which means I was surprised.

Apart from some mild humour of a dry sardonic kind I did not find much to interest me in this book. They were far far too many characters and places for me to assimilate. I made it to the end, but I have to say that I felt like giving up halfway, but I do not like to do that.

It held promise at the start, but this was not fulfilled. Sorry

What at first seems to be an airline disaster thriller soon takes on a life of its own in Andrew Diamond’s latest novel. While waiting to board his flight back to DC, Freddy Ferguson notices another passenger in queue at Gate 76, a flight soon departing San Francisco for Honolulu. This passenger, a fairly attractive blonde, seems distraught and slips out of line at the last minute, rushing to board another plane. As Ferguson lands in DC, the news is full of reports of that Hawaii-bound flight, which blew up soon after takeoff and killed all those on board. Ferguson and the Private Investigation firm for which he works is soon hired by the airline to look into what might have happened.

This book had a lot of ups and downs for me. At some points, it truly held my attention, but at other times, it seemed to drag on. There were too many subplots--yes, they all seemingly connected back to the main idea, but they were hard to keep up with. Over all, the story was great and the characters interesting, and I would recommend to a friend

This fast-paced thriller begins as Freddy Ferguson, a former boxer turned private investigator, a observant man, notices a woman in the security line as he waits his turn. Something just doesn’t seem right to him, so he continues to watch her as she moves through the airport to a gate that leads to a flight to Honolulu. She talks with two men who are watching closely to see that she boards that flight. After a few minutes, Freddy sees her sneak off the plane and go to the ladies room, coming out looking like someone else entirely. She instead boards a plane heading to Chicago.
Freddy gets on his plane to D.C. only to find upon his arrival there that the plane that had been headed to Honolulu blew up in mid-air.
No doubt that the woman he saw was somehow involved in this incident.
Freddy and his partner, Ed, discover the woman’s name, and they are determined to find out what’s going on.
I was engrossed in this book from first page to last, with its twists and turns.

A fantastic book that has you gripped from the off until literally the very last page! Can't recommend this book highly enough!!!

This was a great book, i was hooked from the start and i look forward to reading more by this author. I think this would make a good series.

A really good story. I enjoyed this read. Fast paced. A clever and unusual plot. Want quick and enjoyable read, pick this up!! Highly recommended!

I got this book as a free copy from Netgalley. This is the first time I have read book by Andrew Diamond and I thoroughly enjoyed it. The main characters are Freddy and Anna. The narration goes back between past and present describing how Freddy turned into a private investigator from the professional boxer. Freddy has a keen eye for observing things - him observing a women behaving in a strange way at the airport, and trying to co-relate the scene he observed at the airport with plane crash forms the storyline.