Book Review: Iron Man: Femmes Fatales by Robert Greenberger

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🗓️ 19 October 2009

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Tony Stark versus three assassins. What could possibly go wrong? Books & Nachos is now part of Now Playing Podcast. Before our book reviews were branded as Now Playing Podcast Book Reviews, they were released under a separate show called Books & Nachos. That podcast focused on book discussions, most of which tied directly into films we were covering on Now Playing. We’ve now merged those episodes into the main Now Playing Podcast feed for easier access and a complete archive. But these older episodes still have the original Books & Nachos intro and credits on those older recordings. We dig into Iron Man: Femmes Fatales by Robert Greenberger, a prose novel that drops Tony Stark into a globe-trotting espionage thriller packed with deadly women, high-tech armor, and corporate intrigue. Femmes Fatales leans hard into the spy side of Iron Man’s world. Stark faces off against a trio of dangerous operatives with their own agenda, forcing him to rely on brains as much as repulsor blasts. Host Arnie breaks down how well the novel captures Tony’s voice outside the comic panel, whether the femme-fatale angle adds real tension or just pulp flavor, and how this story stacks up against the cinematic Iron Man. Suit up and find out. {Book Reviews}, {Iron Man Series}

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0:00.0	This is Books and Nachos, a podcast for those of us who find excitement in the pages of a good book. Fiction and nonfiction, graphic novels, and more. We are here to help you find something great to read.
0:27.6	Hello and welcome to our second episode of Books and Notches.
0:32.7	This week, I'm looking at a new novel, Iron Man Femmes Fittals, by Robert Greenberger.
0:37.4	Iron Man is a character that's long been a fan favorite among comic book crowd, but mostly an unknown for the mainstream audience until 2008's Iron Man movie stormed box offices, taking
0:43.1	the Golden Avenger to an elite A list of superheroes such as Batman, Superman, and Spider-Man.
0:49.3	Now building on the mainstream Iron Man character recognition, we have the latest in Marvel's series of novels
0:55.2	based on their comic book superheroes. In Fem Fetals, we see Tony Stark, head of Stark Industries,
1:01.1	a large company whose primary source of income is selling high-tech weapons to the military.
1:05.7	Tony inherited the company at a very young age after his parents were killed in a car crash,
1:10.4	though Tony's expertise
1:11.3	were more in engineering than business.
1:14.0	Many of the weapons sold by Stark Industries are of Tony's own designs.
1:17.3	And as the novel begins, we're shown the creation of an international peacekeeping force called
1:21.4	Shield, which stands for Supreme Headquarters International Espionage Law Enforcement
1:26.8	Division.
1:27.7	And if that's not a mouthful and a stretch for an acronym,
1:31.2	but it's not Greenberger's fault that Marvel gave the group such a stupid acronym.
1:36.2	Shield is not beholden to any one nation,
1:38.7	and it was created to defend the globe from international terrorists.
1:41.8	Wanting to have the latest in weaponry and technology,
1:45.3	Shield is one of Stark's industry's biggest customers.
1:46.9	However, while Shield is just getting started, the terrorist group Hydra has begun its reign
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