KILLING TIME is Mike Brown's story; or 'Primetime' as he is
known to his Special Ops team-mates. He has been seen in
previous BOI novels as a chopper pilot helping them out on
their missions. Mike lives his days trying to forget a
devastating event from 8 years ago, when all of his team
except for him and two others were killed in Afghanistan
during a routine mission turned disastrous. Mike was blamed
for the debacle of 'Operation Slam Dunk', and railroaded out
of the military under threat of a court martial. Eight
years later, enter Eva Salinas, a JAG lawyer and widow of
one of Brown's team-mates. Someone has been feeding her some
highly restricted info about what really happened 8 years
ago; and she has approached Mike Brown to help her find out
what really went down. Eva wants to find out about how and
why her husband died. Eager to finally have the chance to
clear his name, he agrees to work with her, even though he
knows some things about her husband that he knows she won't
like.
He contacts his former team-mates, Bobby Taggart (Boom Boom)
and Jamie Cooper (Hollywood), to let them know that he may
have found a way to clear up all the mess from the mission
gone wrong so many years ago. During their investigation,
they get some help from BOI in the form of Gabe Jones and
Joe Green. They find that they must infiltrate a Waco-type
fringe group called 'United We Denounce' (UWD) to get the
information they need in the search for whoever set Brown up
as the fall-guy in the ill-fated mission. UWD is a front for
the arms and drugs trade that had landed Brown in the mess
that got him tossed from the military.
Cindy Gerrard is at the top of the game, and KILLING TIME
proves it. This
is a great standalone read, and a good place for a new
reader to start. There is some tie-in to BOI but the
background is explained well enough that a new reader won't
feel lost. I loved Mike Brown and Eva Salinas. Brown was
everything you could expect from a Gerrard hero, as well as
being
a sensitive guy and tender towards Eva. I also liked Eva,
she was a military lawyer with some military training; a
real kick-ass babe, and the perfect foil for Brown.
KILLING TIME is highly recommended. If you like Cindy
Gerard's work, you are going to love this one. It has
everything you come to expect from one of her novels; high
action, romance, and a brand new Special Ops team to love --
the One Eyed Jacks. This is an excellent, high-octane read
from Gerard. Fans will be quite pleased with the book, and
she should garner some new readers with this series, which
looks to be a winner. A new One Eyed Jacks team begins to be
set up at the end of the story; and I'm ready to read Boom
Boom and Hollywood's stories.
“We can do this easy,” she whispered close to his ear as
he groaned in agony, “or it can go real hard on you.”
Well, of course he wasn’t going to go easy.
New York Times and USA Today bestselling
author Cindy Gerard plunges readers into the heart of a
seductive contest of wills between a hard-living hero and a
beautiful rogue operative who is on a mission to dig up the
secrets of his past. Tension sizzles in this pulse-pounding
first adventure in Gerard’s action-packed new series as Eva
Salinas lures Mike Brown from the sultry streets of Lima,
Peru, to the desolate Idaho wilderness on the hunt for the
cold-blooded traitor behind a fatal military operation that
haunts them both
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