THE TARGET is an Agent Dallas thriller. Agent Dallas is an FBI agent that specializes in undercover work. She is contacted by Agent Rivers to look into the death of a former FBI agent and friend of Rivers. There have been a series of deaths and corporate sabotage related to medical device companies and the dead agent was looking into it before his death. Agent Dallas goes undercover working for one of the medical device companies in question and must discover evidence before more people become sick and die.

THE TARGET is pushed as an Agent Dallas thriller about an undercover FBI agent and how she works hard to discover the truth. The problem is the story actually focuses on the life of Agent Rivers, her contact more than it does Agent Dallas. The most likeable and empathetic character is the saboteur who should be contemptible. I understand that the author is trying to bring an understanding to the lifestyle of Agent Rivers and her trials and tribulations, but then L.J. Seller should make her the lead character. Instead she makes Agent Dallas an FBI agent that has meaningless sex with men on a regular basis and is in regular therapy the main character.

While the concept of the plot drew me to the book there were too many main characters to make the book work. It was distracting to the storyline. My other issue with THE TARGET is that while I wanted to like the characters the only one I felt drawn to was the one who was suppose to be the bad guy. L.J. Sellers uses THE TARGET to push a subject that is important to her and while that is good it makes the story and the concept fall short of what I was expecting.