- Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages
- Publisher: Harlequin (Nov 1 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0373836767
- ISBN-13: 978-0373836765
- Product Dimensions: 16.3 x 10.9 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 227 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,026,950 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Emotionally gripping special-ops tale, Nov 11 2005
By Rebecca Lyn - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: In The Cold (Mass Market Paperback)
This book was a fabulous read; it was my "Find of the Year." The background setting of the Bosnian-serbian conflict and the dangerous workings of U.S. espionage teams helped to create a compelling story of romantic suspense between a team member and the team director. I could not put this book down and read late into the night.
The author has created characters so realistic that it was hard not to empathize with each of them. The death of the team member 3 years earlier and the subsequent guilt which was felt by the remainder of the group, especially Simon (Director), led to another mission, where they hoped to find the person with inside knowledge of the team.
The disabling effects of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder / trauma was realistically portrayed as events began to spiral out-of-control. Claire and Simon begin to develop a relationship in the midst of the current Mission, which he cannot divulge to her....his team thinks he just wants to reach "mission objective" and move-on.
The suspense plot takes-over in the second half of the book, where the setting moves to Yugoslavia in an effort to seize the item causing assassination attempts on Claire. Another operative is secretly involved with the "enemy," but not of his own free will.
What people will do for political power, the horrors of war and ethnic-cleansing, and the effects of trauma on survivors, even those clearly prepared for battle, are vividly created. This is the best romantic suspense I have read thus far this year, and hope to hear more of the same from this author!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A covert-ops thriller that's my best romance title this year!, May 31 2006
By E. N. Ling "Ithaca" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: In The Cold (Mass Market Paperback)
Those who love their romance-thrillers with SEALs, Marines and other covert ops heroes have to read Jeanie London's about an Agency Director, Simon Brandauer, his anguish over losing one of his agents, Violet, and his mission to recover her. For though Violet is alive, the woman she used to be is lost and in helping her recover her identity, Simon recovers himself as well.
Without verbosity, London is able to show how deeply Simon loves Violet and how he suppressed his feelings for her over the years. As a romance, this book is so emotionally-charged it left me breathless. As a spy thriller, it was no less suspenseful and the events are a lot more real than what we get from romantic suspense authors in general. Bad things DO happen to our heroines if they are spies and while it does not make for comfortable reading, fans of this genre are no longer expecting innocent, naive, untouched damsels-in-distress heroines. London gives us the debilitating effects of PTSD, traitors-in-our-midst and sex which, while not graphic, is scorching because of the emotional build-up in Simon.
I bought this book after reading several recommendations on other review boards and am as totally blown away. What I liked, too, were the bonus features at the back of the book which gave me the background info on Excelsior, Simon's agency and a deleted scene between Simon and Violet.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Sexy Romantic Suspense!, Dec 17 2005
By M. Nix - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: In The Cold (Mass Market Paperback)
Simon Brandauer is the head of an elite US black ops intelligence agency called Excelsior. For three years he's mourned the loss of a team of operatives that was killed during a covert mission, but most especially he's mourned the loss of one of his operatives, Violet. So, when a fiction book appears written by a woman called Claire de Beaupre it catches his attention. Claire de Beaupre's fiction reads like Violet's mission reports. Is it possible that Claire is Violet? When Simon finally locates Claire he discovers that after the horrific torture and injuries she suffered she has no memories of her life as Violet. Simon puts all of Excelsior into doing whatever it takes to help her. But now a new threat has appeared. Someone doesn't want Claire to remember and is determined to kill her before she does.
In The Cold is my first Jeanie London book and I found it satisfying. For years Simon had feelings for Violet but never acted on them, then all the sudden it was too late and she was gone. Now faced with a second chance, he grabs it, all the while determined to protect her. Claire/Violet is torn by not knowing who she is, but she has these feelings for Simon who has suddenly come into her life. A stranger who she feels like she knows. Filled with intrigue, romance, and action, In The Cold is a romance suspense that is more than worth a late night reading binge!
Melissa
Reviewed for Joyfully Reviewed
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