Spy Games

The story centers around Rand Duncan , a CIA agent who is undercover in Korean and has isolated himself from everyone except the Company. He feels he’s committed too many sins and hurt too many people, amongst them Sarah Collins, her brother and her family. Sarah works on a part time basis with the CIA , but only as a courier. They recruited her since her main job takes her throughout Asia. She suspects that Rand is the one receiving some of the envelopes she has delivered. The two of them have a history. She is his best friend’s little sister. Her brother served with Rand overseas, but was injured and lost his arm. Rand felt responsible for that injury and left his friend and and everyone from his past in order to atone for his “mistakes”. He is assigned to find and either save his “courier girl” or kill her so she doesn’t end up being tortured and divulging top secrets. At first he doesn’t realize that it’s Sarah, for whom he always had feelings. Feelings that Sarah also had for him. An informant has “spilled the beans” and now both are running for their lives. All that said, I have mixed feeling about the book. I never connected with the characters, I felt that they fell in bed within minutes of seeing each other and that there were gaps in the storyline. There is a reference to Thailand more than once, but no further explanation. I was gifted this book by Netgalley. The opinions expressed are solely my own.

Loved this book! It's fast paced romantic suspense at its best! Rand is the spy who disappeared from Sarah's life after her brother was injured on his watch, while Sarah is the courier for the spies when she is burned. Unlike the TV show, she isn't dumped in a safe American city, but rather is hunted by others for the information she possesses. Rand is activated to find her and protect her, or, if necessary, kill her. When he realizes that he's been corresponding with Sarah, he is stunned and he is still just as hung up on her as she is on him. What follows is almost non-stop thrill ride as they try to figure out how she got burned and escape with their lives. This is the first book I've read by this author, but it won't be the last. Fans of the genre will want to put this novel at the top of their TBRs. I'm adding the author to my must read authors' list and will work my way through her back list.

Good read.