"strong Smithson Group thriller"
Smithson Group agent Mick Savin awakens in West Texas
wondering how he ended up there. He knows he was
attacked, hog tied and dragged before being left to die by
Spectra hoods while on a mission in the New Mexico desert. Mick soon learns that former attorney Neva Case saved his
life. She saw his battered dog on a remote road and
followed the canine until she located the tattered
bleeding Nick. She took him to safety. He is already
grateful to her for saving his life, but soon also admires
Neva as she left her urban legal practice to manage the
Big Brown Barn shelter, which protects young girls from
being sold into polygamist marriages. However, Mick is
concerned that someone wants to put Neva out of business
permanently even if that means killing her but he refuses
to allow any harm to come to the woman he now loves. The latest Smithson Group thriller is an electrifying
espionage romantic suspense novel that starts off at
supersonic speed, accelerates, and never slows down until
the climax. The story line is loaded with action, but
also contains two terrific congenial yet tough lead
characters whose love for one another comes at the right
time as first he needs her nurturing and then she needs
his protection. Alison Kent has added a winner to her
Smithson saga. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted June 29, 2005
SummaryMick Savin is discovered, beaten and bloody, along the side
of the road by a woman with even more secrets than he has.
Neva Case is an attorney, but she also runs the Big Brown
Barn, where young girls fleeing from marriages arranged by
their cult-member parents to middle-aged men, and willing to
pay for the privilege, can hide before being spirited out of
the area. Neva takes Mick in, patches him up, and in return
he offers to help her out. This one won't win Kent too many
fans among romance readers, although admirers of her
original Bond and Gor adventures may enjoy it. It starts out
with two teens running for their lives, then gunshots. Next
a dog is beaten, and Mick is hogtied and sadistically
dragged along rocky ground by two thugs on ATVs. And that's
just the introduction to the story, which crams cult
practices, abuse, and child prostitution into another
graphic tale of sex and organized crime featuring one of the
SG-5 team.
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