I just finished Payback by Fern Michaels, the 2nd in the Sisterhood series. A group of women, bankrolled by one of them who is very wealthy, wreck revenge on people who have been able to avoid convictions of their crimes, or, in the first of the series, spirit away a woman who is about to be falsely convicted. You must suspend reality to enjoy the story, but they are enjoyable.
In this one they take on a husband, wife and son who own HMO's and deny every claim they can, meaning many people have died because they couldn't get treatment, or have lost everything trying to pay for their care. And they take on a senator who is a huge philanderer and gave his wife - one if the sisterhood - AIDS, but he's not aware he has AIDS.
The Sisterhood is lead by an ex MI6 spy who is now living in Va, with the wealthy woman, under a new identity. He has fitted out a secret room in their McLean mansion w/ every possible piece of technology and, of course, has fabulous "connections" to people throughout the world, including the queen and the White House. Even though one of the "Sisters" is an attorney, they have no regard for the law as they work their revenge.
The book needed an editor, all of who seem to have disappeared these days. Some of the problems may have been printing mistakes, but some was just bad grammar. I guess when you're rolling out 2 books or more a year, it's hard to perfect them. But it needed a story editor for more development of the story, it's a short book and just seemed to come to an end. I'll try another one in the series just because i like the story concept.
