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CUTTING
LOOSE - Tara Janzen
Special Defense Forces #8
Dell
ISBN: 978-0-440-24385-4
January 2008
Action Adventure
Albuquerque, New Mexico and Denver, Colorado - Present Day
For eight years, drug kingpin Alejandro Campos has been a big fish
in Central America and northern South America. But the arrival of
an Albuquerque schoolteacher named Lily Robbins at his hacienda
seeking sanctuary is the beginning of the end for Campos. Three
weeks later, Zach Prade has one more mission to accomplish before
he can leave his Alejandro Campos identity behind for good: find
the encryption code that the CIA believes Lily has in her possession.
Growing up the daughter of a former marine turned
sheriff’s deputy has left Lily Robbins with pretty good
instincts. Though she can’t prove it -- and the police don’t
believe her -- Lily is certain that someone has been in her house,
and she’s pretty sure it’s the men frequently driving
the luxury sports car through her quiet neighborhood. That, combined
with the anonymous envelope containing ten thousand dollars in
cash and tickets to Tahiti -- her dream vacation spot -- and Lily
knows it’s time to get out of town. The morning she plans
to leave, however, all hell breaks loose and Lily finds three
intruders in her home. That one of them is Alejandro Campos and
he saves her life leaves Lily more confused then ever. She’s
been doing her best to ignore the attraction she feels toward
the drug runner, but when he whisks her away from her house and
the gunfire in a seriously hot car, she can’t help but wonder
how he’s connected to the trouble she is in. Or is he her
way out of it?
In CUTTING LOOSE, Tara Janzen once again takes readers
on a non-stop thrill ride -- and in an amazing car. Special Defense
Forces, or SDF, is a covert group working for the Department of
Defense, and most of the agents got their start as members of
a chop-shop gang running out of Denver’s Steele Street.
In several of the earlier books, the cars at Steele Street are
almost characters themselves, and this tale is no exception, featuring
a 1968 Shelby Mustang Cobra named Charlotte the Harlot. A powerful
car, Charlotte definitely does her part in helping Zach and Lily
with their escape.
The events that lead up to this story had their start
in the previous book, ON THE LOOSE, and it helps to have read
that first. Characters from the other stories also play their
part, as there are a couple of seemingly unrelated plotlines that
eventually tie together. Zach and Lily are immediately attracted
to each other, and with the adventure they are on now, they have
a chance to explore that attraction. An exciting and engaging
story, don’t miss CUTTING LOOSE.
Jennifer Bishop |
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