Deadly Game by Michael Caine

 Michael Caine is one of my favorite actors, as cool as or more so than Sean Connery. So, I had to read this book when I saw it in the New Arrivals section of the library.

The book is quite readable and similar in genre to the books by Baldacci, Sandford etc. It starts off quite well about something that appears to be nuclear bomb material found in a garbage dump. Soon after it is stolen from the dump, it appears that multiple bad actors are after it.  Harry Taylor is assigned to find the material and the bad actors. There appear to be multiple villains who may be behind the plots to steal the material and then use it for their own apparently nefarious purposes.

The premise is outlandish and the chase is more so. Taylor is smart and unorthodox and appears to get the ideas for the investigation randomly. The authorities are chasing leads that are imagined to be related to conventional state-actors, like Russia and drug lords. Meanwhile Harry is chasing leads pulled out of thin air from guesswork. The final solution is outlandish and straight out of Mission Impossible.

Read it if you are a fan of Michael Caine. It is outlandish but at least not boring.