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Navy SEAL Team 16 roars back into action and Max Bhagat and Gina… at last – they finally have their happily ever after! A few books ago Max – an elite FBI counter-terrorist agent – raged impotently as Gina was tortured and raped on a hijacked plane, unable to rescue her before it was too late. Eighteen years younger than him, Gina was brave and brilliant and strong, even when cruelly violated. Max fell in love with her but always struggled with the age difference. He used his dangerous job and his super-rigid control to keep them idiotically apart. It was cataclysmic for us readers when they finally went to bed together a couple of books later. Wow, yeah. (Still recovering.) Thankfully it’s time for their defining love story, thankyou Suzanne Brockmann!
A horrified Max now faces his worst nightmare: Gina is reported dead from a bomb blast in Europe. Fellow FBI agent Jules Cassidy – remember him, with the ability to morph from gay flirt to mega-alpha hero with a flick of his eyelashes, sweetie – goes with Max to identify Gina’s body. Oh. My. Gosh. That is one incredible scene, with Max rendered inept and helpless and emotionally naked. Thank God for solid-as-a-rock Jules to help him through. To their shock, the dead body isn’t Gina. To their further shock, they learn she’s somehow tangled herself up with ‘Jones’ – a dangerous ex-Special forces operative turned lethally criminal. And – just to emotionally cripple Max even further – Gina might be pregnant. This brilliant story, leaping from country to country and finally climaxing with guns blazing and raw, jagged emotion, shows why Brockmann has the ability to chain us to her pages. Her characters leap right into your heart, and the melting of iceman Max to ‘breaking point’ has been a long time coming. Actually, I don’t think he melts, I think he gets blowtorched by Gina! And omigosh, the kitchen table gets an amazing workout! Go Max, go Gina. Go read this. Now!
So, we know that Gina isn’t dead, but the emotion roils when they think she is:
Jules followed her finger, and saw two words that made his heart stop.
Gina.
And Vitagliano.
He double-checked the heading. Civilians Killed...
"Oh, God, no," he said. Not Gina Vitagliano.
The only woman who had ever truly captured Max Bhagat's teflon-coated heart. A woman Max had not only let get away, but a woman he had pushed and shoved until she'd finally up and left.
Which didn't mean he hadn't loved her; that he didn't love her still.
Dear sweet Jesus...
"Someone's got to tell him," Deb whispered.
Jules looked up to find them all watching him. As if he were their team leader or something. No fair -- he hadn't been promoted yet.
"Yeah, I'll do it," he said, in a voice that he couldn't quite make sound like his own. "Gina was my friend, too." Jesus -- Gina was. He hated having to say that. God, how could this have happened?
Somehow, someway, they were all going to make it through this awful, terrible day. |
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