Title: The Defiant Hero Series: Troubleshooters
Author: Suzanne Brockmann
Read copy: eBook
Published: June 3, 2003
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0345464281
ISBN-13: 9780345464286
"The United States refuses to negotiate with terrorists."
Meg Moore remembered the warning from her job as a translator in a European embassy. Those same words will spell out a death sentence for her daughter and grandmother who have been kidnapped by a lethal group called the Extremists. Meg will do anything to meet their unspeakable demands; anything—even kill—to save her child.
When Navy SEAL Lieutenant, junior grade, John Nilsson is summoned to Washington, D.C., by the FBI to help negotiate a hostage situation, the last person he expects to see holding a foreign ambassador at gunpoint is Meg. He hasn't seen her in years, but he's never forgotten how it feels to hold her in his arms. John could lose his career if he helps her escape. She will lose her life if he doesn't...
My rating:
The story within a story within a story got old the first time around. This time, it was already smelly and shriveled.
Is it so hard to keep it simple? The present-time suspense would've been great in itself, the Meg-Nils and Eve-Amy storylines would've kept the pace going until they "united". But no, we had to have the Sam-Alyssa shindig, which seemed redundant and will apparently drag on in this series for quite some time, and then we had to have the grandma tell her WWII stories, and then we had to have the more recent flashbacks about Meg and Nils "relationship".
The pacing was shot to smithereens, the characters weren't that interesting to begin with (and the hero was too cocky for my taste), the romance wasn't (that) believable...And I was bored before the half mark.
bodyguard/military/merc/gov/cop/spy, contemporary, contemporary romance, DNF, suspense/mystery/adventure/thriller, Suzanne Brockmann
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