SURRENDER by Stephanie Tyler is exciting, intriguing and
fast paced, I could not put it down. I have read other
books by Ms. Tyler and SURRENDER is right up there as one
of her best books. This story introduces us to a secret
group of individuals who are all Section 8, that are at
present day all dead or presumed dead. The group consists
of 7 men and 1 women. This group is put together by the CIA
and appropriately named Section 8 or S8, with the idea that
these individuals can accomplish black op missions that are
beneficial to the U.S. governments without the U.S.
government getting it's hands dirty. Section 8 is
controlled by a nameless, faceless person that no one is
ever to find out the identity of. We start out in Zaire 20
yrs earlier with Darius making the hard decision to leave
his friend and teammate Simon behind surrounded by Rebels.
There was no choice with Darius injured and a helo full of
American Diplomats that S8 was sent to retrieve and rescue
and he being the pilot.
When the story fast forwards to present day we find
Darius's son Dare, trying to sleep around the nightmares
and ghosts that have plagued him every night after his
return from the jungle. It has been 363 days with no
visitors to his home. He was standing on his porch with his
gun drawn waiting to see who would come all the way out
there to see him. He was surprised that it was the only
female team member of S8, Adele. She tells him, he is to
get his half sister Avery, a sibling he never knew he had,
and protect her from a person that wants her dead. The same
person that is responsible for having her mother killed.
Adele tells Dare that Avery is up on murder charges for
killing 2 men and that he has a small window of time to get
her out of her hiding place in Manhattan before she is to
taken away, and not by the police. Before Adele is killed
and Dare blows up him home she gives him a CD. After he
rescues Avery from her 3rd floor apartment in Hell's
Kitchen and they are in his truck, she finally asks him who
he is and does he know her father. That is when he tells
her that they have the same father and for her to get the
CD, that was left for her out of the glove compartment and
watch it. She pops it into her and laptop and Dare has her
turn up the volume so he can hear what is said, while he is
driving/ This is the beginning of Darius seeming to
control their moves and giving them clues as what to do.
The first is telling Dare to "go home". Avery is confused
by this statement, but Dare is not. He did not grow up as a
kid from a Section 8 parent , especially the leader and
heart and soul of the group, without being trained and
having a backup plan. As the CD plays and Darius starts to
reveal some of what is going on,. They are told that the
nameless, faceless person behind S8 is Richard Powell and
that no one was ever to find out this information, if they
did they would be killed. Two months after she is rescued
by Dare, Avery finds herself in Gunner's tattoo shop in a
very rough part of New Orleans looking to rent his top
floor and needing a home base. When she proposes this to
him he thinks she is a merc or a bounty hunter. When she
explains that she is there for Dare, Gunner is less than
thrilled. Once the story moves to New Orleans the real
action, suspense and drama begins.
I really enjoyed reading SURRENDER, and as usual with a
book written by the talented Ms. Tyler there was plenty of
action, suspense, humor, mystery, twists you don't see
coming, sexy Alpha males, strong females that can handle
these men, and romance. Somehow Ms. Tyler knows how to
throw all of these scenrios into a blender, turn it on and
come out with a story that it is a perfect balance of all
things romantic suspense. SURENDER is a must read. I
cannot wait for book 2 in this series.
Desperate, fearless, and hunted
For former Navy SEAL Dare O'Rourke, Section 8 was
legendary. The son of one of its missing members, he grew
up in the shadow of its secrets. All he knew was that it
was a cabal of operatives discharged from branches of the
military and reassigned to extremely dangerous,
off–the–books international missions. And that
their handler was as shrouded in mystery as the missions
themselves.
Nothing can stop them. Nothing can break them.
Now the handler of Section 8 has given extreme orders to
kill any remaining members, along with their families. Dare
must save his long–lost half sister, Avery, whom he
was never meant to meet. Determined to fight for their
lives and find their missing father, Dare and Avery bring
together those who are in danger because of their
relationship to Section 8 for one last mission—to
avenge their families and to survive.
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