SEAL Team Sixteen and members of Troubleshooters come together for a training exercise that eventually ends in the extremely cold and challenging New Hampshire mountains. Petty Officer Mark Jenkins is finally getting to spend some time with a woman he's lusted after since he was a boy; he got Tracy Shapiro a job as the Troubleshooters' receptionist.
They had barely arrived before the exercise goes terribly wrong and Tracy is missing in the freezing temperatures. Frantic because he put her in danger, Mark is determined to find her. Even though he's come to realize that his teenage dream isn't necessarily a good reality for his life as an adult. Instead, there are some awfully strong feelings popping up for Lindsey Fontaine, a Troubleshooters' operative.
I can never say enough good things about Ms. Brockmann's SEAL tales. But I'm a sucker for series that entwine characters together, giving us a glimpse of what's happening with everyone. I will say that this is one of the weaker books in this series. Mark takes an awfully long time to realize that he may have idealized Tracy just a tad -- and it makes him seem immature. This book also seems a little more character-driven than Brockmann's others, with the mystery/suspense aspect lacking. The glimpses of the serial killer are horrific, but still didn't pull at me as much as the relationships. Maybe it's because the killer doesn't actually make an appearance in the lives of those at Troubleshooters until most of the way through the book. I do, however, highly recommend this series, especially if you enjoy a good SEAL love story.
The men of SEAL Team Sixteen take on a truly challenging
opponent: Troubleshooters, Inc., the civilian
counterterrorist team of former SEAL commanding officer
Tom Paoletti's civilian counterterrorist team. The two
groups face off as part of a winter training exercise in
the mountains of New Hampshire, where, despite the cold
weather and meager accommodations, they find the
assignment a pleasurable one - particularly for Petty
Officer Mark Jenkins, who has helped get his sister's best
friend (and his seventh-grade crush) Tracy Shapiro a job
as the Troubleshooters' new receptionist.
But it's Troubleshooters operative and former LAPD
detective Lindsey Fontaine who understands all his jokes.
Jenk and Lindsey becomes friends - and then more - as the
two teams train together.
The real world intervenes, however, when Tracy goes
missing in the freezing woods. As hours stretch into days,
the search widens - but she's vanished without a trace.
Soon the bodies of brutally tortured women are discovered
beneath the ice of a flooded quarry, and it becomes clear
that a serial killer has made this area his home.
Lindsey soon finds herself isolated in the killer's
snowbound lair, while Jenk desperately races against time,
fighting the elements to reach her. Can they bring a
violent perpetrator to justice and rescue their missing
friend?
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