Desperate Deeds
by Dee Davis
- Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages
- Publisher: Forever (August 2, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0446542024
- ISBN-13: 978-0446542029
Product DescriptionReview:
As the demolitions expert for A-Tac, a black-ops CIA unit masquerading as Ivy League faculty, Tyler Hanson has two great loves: literature and explosives. She lives by the motto "Duty First" and doesn't have time for personal attachments . . . until a steamy one-night stand turns into a professional partnership.
BURNED BY BETRAYAL
When Tyler meets Owen Wakefield, a handsome British operative, she seduces him with no intention of ever seeing him again. But then the sexy Brit is brought into A-Tac, and despite Tyler's efforts to keep her distance, she finds herself falling for him. Trusting him.
Owen seems too good to be true - and he is. He's hiding his true motives and identity, and no matter how he feels about Tyler, he can't keep her secrets. One of A-Tac's members has turned traitor and helped terrorists to hijack a shipment of nuclear weapons. As witnesses start dying and evidence starts disappearing, Owen and Tyler must race to find the mole - and prevent a final, cataclysmic act of destruction.
This is book 3 of the A-Tac series. I had not read book 1 but I read and reviewed book 2, Dangerous Desires.
A common thread to each story is the threat of a traitor on the team.This story starts out with Tyler in depression over a failed mission where two young soldiers were killed but she survived. The circumstances put her involvement as suspect especially with the recent string of sabotaged missions involving the A-Tac team.
Tyler decides to assuage her misery with the handsome Brit who was supposed to receive the stolen detonators. Tyler is pretty much a loner. She concentrates on her bombs and missions with A-Tac. She was once in love but she was abandoned. Now she doesn’t waste time and energy on romance, but a one night stand seems like a good idea ... at the time.
Owen is sexy and suave, like James Bond. He has a few hidden secrets though. The biggest secret is that he has been recruited to spy on the A-Tac team, particularly on Tyler who is the primary suspect for the thefts. The more he is around her the less he suspects her but the clues still point to her involvement and his superior, who has it in for A-Tac, is set on exposing the team.
Tyler and Owen follow a trail of dead people as each time they go to interview a witness or a lead they find another person murdered. Along the way they are dodging bullets as there are several attempts made on Tyler’s life. There are a few red herring suspects which keeps the reader’s interest in wanting to learn who the traitor is.
The hardest part of this plot for me was the hunt and the “down to the wire” attempts to prevent detonation of the nuclear weapon. This book reminded me of one of the not so believable episodes of the TV series 24; a series I really like. Even though you might wonder if all of that could really happen in 24 hours (and you wonder why Jack is a one man hero), there is a lot of enjoyable excitement in the action.
The romance is sexy and sweet in its own way as the characters grow from lust to love. Isn’t that what we love about romance? Watching the characters overcome the obstacles as they journey from aloneness, to reluctance, to “maybe this is it” and finally arriving at “lets stick together till our dotage.” Of course, that assumes that Tyler will get over feeling betrayed when she learns that Owen’s real role in helping the team has been as a spy.
I always enjoy Dee Davis’ characters and their interaction as well as the intriguing plots. This is a solid, entertaining read.
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Thank you to Hachette and Anna for providing the book to read and review. Be sure to check out the author interview and the giveaway!
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