I only found one of the three books from last week, but I also only tried one store. At the time I didn't think I had time to try a second one, but I underestimated Alex's capacity to run behind schedule. Being the punctual person with consistently late friends and family might be more annoying than being the one sober person surrounded by imbibers. Certainly less entertaining.
So this mini-series is focused on Michelle, the safe-cracker that was pretending to be a better, more famous safe-cracker the first go-round. She paid the debt to save her old crew, and has started up a new crew, sticking to mostly safer, low-end jobs. Which doesn't mean she's safe from people trying to rip her off, or that word of that previous art heist didn't get around.
A man named Javier wants her to break into a secure Russian facility where an immense kaiju is frozen underground and steal a bunch of original Aztec gold from galleon sitting in its digestive tract. Michelle, not being an idiot, declines. Unfortunately, the guy who tried to rip off her last heist (who looks like a complete fucking doofus. Like he stole some newscaster's hair) decided to kill her to make an example, and she doesn't have the financial resources to go to war with him.
Why does she need to go to war? One of the guys on her crew is apparently a top-notch sniper (among other skills), and when we see this Carlito, he's out on a golf course in broad daylight with only two goons, one of which is preoccupied holding Carlito's phone for him. Can't be that hard to find out where he hangs his shingle. Just find a nice grassy knoll and put one in his skull. Apparently that's not on the table, so Michelle and her crew are taking the job.
Patrick understands that Marco, who brainstormed the last heist, would be the guy to approach, so he addresses that by having Javier explain he tried Marco first, but he's lost interest. And there's some backmatter at the end that's supposed to be a journal Michelle keeps where she notes she tried to recruit Marco for this crew of hers originally, and he turned her down, too. So I think it's not a smokescreen, and Marco's not going to pop up at some crucial moment later on.
Patrick's also setting some things up with her crew. T.G., the sniper (who is also her gardener) seems like he's got something going on only he knows about, like he was waiting for her to hire him. The journal notes Sung tends to move between crews a lot, which Michelle says is a red flag. The other guy, Glover, is from her old crew and he seems to keep screwing up. Michelle leveled up whether she wanted to or not to pull off that first kaiju heist. Glover hasn't, and so when things go wrong, he's almost certainly going to be the problem. Or one of the others is going to kill him first, which will create its own problem.
Broo seems to have pulled back a bit on the exaggeration. Characters don't jut their lips or chins out as wildly as they did before, the angles are their joints aren't as ludicrously sharp. It's still recognizably his work, but now I'm not having moments where I'm pulled out of the story because he's trying too hard to sell an emotion.
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