Jina Modell is a communications expert and is about to get
an eye opener when she and the other communications people
are to be inducted into the teams they have worked with.
She finds herself training with the GO-Team instead of with
the other communication people. She must work hard to not be
THE WOMAN LEFT BEHIND.
Levi Butcher is team leader and totally focused on the
mission and he works Jina hard hoping she would quit. But
there is no quit in this girl and soon she finds herself
part of the GO-Team despite the nickname given to her by
them -- Babe. When the time comes for a mission, Jina is at
base when it is attacked and barely makes it out alive, only
to believe that her team was going to leave her behind. She
doesn't know that Levi was not going to do that, despite his
earlier statements that she was the bottom of the team, she
was still team. Still his!
THE WOMAN LEFT BEHIND is an amazing read. It is action
packed, very intense, and fast paced. Author Linda Howard
gives her readers a look at the toughness of the training
of special ops teams, and the tenacity of one woman who
refuses to wash out. Jina is the only communications expert
to be taken by her team and trained and she does an
impressive job of keeping up and kicking butt, which they
did not expect. Nor did Levi expect to be attracted to her,
though there is a very strict no-fraternizing, his feelings
start to bleed into their lives. However, when she felt she was
was expendable she must decide where she wants to be an
operative or not ... a hard decision to make as the men have
become her family.
The romance with Levi is rather intense because of the
fraternizing thing and that dance is always entertaining,
especially to the other team members. I am a sucker for
team camaraderie where they act like brothers and always
have each others back and the GO-Team that Levi and Jina are
attached to are just that way. They joke, tease, and stand
shoulder to shoulder.
There is a political side to this storyline that adds to the
general vibe with a Congresswoman who is seeking revenge
(though I believe it was her own guilt riding her) against
the leader of the GO-Team and destroying his teams before
killing him is her plan.
If I have a complaint about this book, it would be the lack
of romance, though it was added like an explosion toward
the end and the rather abrupt ending. That said, I do hope
there are more books planned by Ms. Howard as a number of
the guys need their own stories.
A battle-hardened warrior will risk himself to help the
woman he loves escape from deadly enemies in this thrilling,
edge-of-your-seat novel of romantic suspense from New York
Times and USA Today bestselling author Linda Howard
Levi Butcher is singularly devoted to his work. As team
leader for the GO-Team, his unwavering focus is on the
mission. Levi knows all too well that one minor distraction
can hold deadly consequences. But with the soothing, sensual
voice of “Babe,” the team’s communication expert, constantly
in his ear, keeping his concentration on the dangerous work
at hand is becoming extremely difficult.
Jina Modell definitely doesn’t feel like a “Babe,”
especially when she’s working with the gruff, no-nonsense
Levi. When the base where she’s stationed is attacked, Jina
manages to escape but the rest of the team, working some
distance away, is exfiltrated, thinking Jina died in the
explosion—leaving her stranded. To survive, she’s got to
figure out how to get back to safety before she’s discovered
by the enemy.
Levi would never willingly leave a soldier behind,
especially a brave woman whose sweet voice haunts his every
thought. Once he discovers Jina is alive, the tenacious
warrior will walk into fire to save this intriguing woman
who has captured his heart.
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