Do or Die: Reluctant Heroes, Book 1 Author: | Language: English | ISBN:
B00HVL902A | Format: PDF
Do or Die: Reluctant Heroes, Book 1 Description
Suzanne Brockmann's seamless blend of heroic military action and intense passion inspired USA Today to call her "a superstar of romantic suspense" - and for years her award-winning Troubleshooters audiobooks have been must-listens for fans of sizzling stories of action and adventure. Now the New York Times best-selling author shoots to thrill again with Do or Die, an electrifying new audiobooks that is certain to win Brockmann new listeners and delight devotees.
Navy SEAL Ian Dunn went rogue in a big way when he turned his talents to a lawless life of jewel heists and con jobs - or so the world has been led to believe. In reality, the former Special Ops warrior is still fighting for good, leading a small band of freelance covert operatives who take care of high-stakes business in highly unofficial ways. That makes Ian the hands-down choice when the US government must breach a heavily guarded embassy and rescue a pair of children kidnapped by their own father, a sinister foreign national willing to turn his kids into casualties. Shockingly, Ian passes on the mission for reasons he will not - or cannot - reveal.
But saying no is not an option - especially not for Phoebe Kruger, Ian's beautiful and unexpectedly brash new attorney. Determined to see the abducted children set free, Phoebe not only gets Ian on board but insists on riding shotgun on his Mission: Impossible - style operation, whether he likes it or not.
Though Phoebe has a valuable knack for getting out of tight spots, there's no denying the intensely intimate feelings growing between Ian and Phoebe as the team gears up for combat. But these are feelings they both must fight to control as they face an array of cold-blooded adversaries, including a vindictive Mob boss who's got Ian at the top of his hit list and a wealthy psychopath who loves murder as much as he loves money. As they dodge death squads and play lethal games of deception, Ian and Phoebe w...
- Audible Audio Edition
- Listening Length: 19 hours and 31 minutes
- Program Type: Audiobook
- Version: Unabridged
- Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
- Audible.com Release Date: February 4, 2014
- Whispersync for Voice: Ready
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00HVL902A
The book opens when Ian Dunn is yanked from prison to save a group of children in a high-risk rescue from an embassy. He says no his government and kidnaps his new lawyer, Phoebe Kruger, who through a series of errors and comedies winds up involved in a very, very intricate puzzle of lies, plots and backstory, along with the current embassy problem, among several others.
Like all Brockmann novels, there are more plots and subplots than you can believe. This is romance, but you need to pay attention to all the details (and the many many people) and keep them straight to get the most out of the novel. Since this is a new series, I hope many of those characters appear in the future of the series.
What I love about Brockmann is her characters are real 3D people, every one of them, including little secondary characters. What they do is sometimes flawed, sometimes crazy, sometimes sweet, but always believable given the situation. I can't think of any writer who does people as well as she does. My only tiny complaint was I didn't feel as I knew Phoebe as well as Ian by the end of the book. We really got so very little about her given the length of the book. We knew more about the history of Francine, Berto, pretty much every secondary character than we did about our heroine Phoebe outside of the action taking place. I didn't feel I got a good handle on her personality prior to meeting Ian.
The only reason this book has 4 stars instead of 5 is because it honestly was a little slow in parts. I'm thinking that was just a first of a new series problem. Because her books are so incredibly character driven, there was a lot to set up here for all characters.
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