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Setting: Texas, Morocco, Amsterdam
Sensuality: 7
Lovely Maggie Barton and hardbitten Cord Romero share a tangled and complicated past. While still a young girl, Maggie fell deeply in love with Cord, but he's become a hard, cynical man who no longer believes in the emotion. When Cord is nearly killed in an assassination attempt, Maggie returns to Texas to care for him, but he spurns her offer of help. It isn't long, however, before their lives are once again inextricably bound as they join forces to bring down a crime cartel that exploits young children. Maggie is a woman with deep secrets, and Cord is a man with a badly scarred heart. Is there any hope that these two wounded people will find a way to heal each other? Perhaps, but first they must survive the threat to their lives as they race across Tangiers and through Amsterdam in a desperate gamble to bring justice to an evil crime lord.
Readers will be delighted to find that Desperado features a hero and heroine first introduced in Palmer's Lord of the Desert. The settings of Texas ranch, Moroccan desert, and Amsterdam canals are well rendered, the suspense plot has some interesting, hair-raising chases, and the romantic interludes carry Palmer's trademark steam heat. --Lois Faye Dyer --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Publishers Weekly
A gripping story is sabotaged by leaden writing in this hardcover debut from bestselling author Palmer (The Texas Ranger; Lord of the Desert). Mercenary Cord Romero returns to his Texas ranch after barely avoiding being blown up by a bomb planted by his arch-enemy, Raoul Gruber, only to find his beautiful and long-estranged foster sister, Maggie Barton, at his door. Disturbed by his desire for Maggie, Cord lashes out at her. Heartbroken by Cord's hostility, and jobless she left the perfect job in Morocco to rush to Cord's side Maggie takes a job in Houston doing the books at a detective agency. She quickly finds herself tangled up in a mission to bring down Gruber and his international ring of child labor exploitation baddies and when Gruber discovers her connection to Cord, she becomes his next target. Maggie and Cord flee overseas to catch Gruber, traveling from Houston to Spain and Morocco and back again to lure him into their trap. Believable sexual tension sizzles between Maggie and Cord as they struggle with their haunted pasts and crippling secrets in order to find the strength to trust each other. Unfortunately, their cookie-cutter personalities make the romance fall flat, and Cord's me-Tarzan-you-Jane high-handed treatment of Maggie is far from sexy. Palmer's compelling suspense and beautiful visuals keep the reader interested, but repetitive and hackneyed writing ("her shell-like ear") bog down an otherwise fast-paced romantic thriller.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Same old,
By D. Gadj "dgadj" (Toronto, ON) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Desperado (Hardcover)
This story as usual is about the macho man and the abused inexperienced woman, who is hooked on him. Even if I agree that this line can be re-invented in every single book I ever read from DP, Cord and Maggie are not my favourites for sure.The characters are flat, especially Cord. He never loved his wife, but never noticed Maggie either...eh..once went to bed with her and hurt her since he was drunk....sounds familiar? Then when he is wounded and she comes back from the Middle East to be with him, several sentences with the other secondary characters about her, unexpectedly reveal to him what he had been missing........and he changes overnight.....very flat Then Maggie becomes a skilled and sucessful secret agent / spy, when all she has done before is investment advice from behind a desk.....very unrealistic......as far as the romance scenes....I am writing this several weeks after I read the book and I don't remember anything special about them.......so, not my favourite book at all.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Once is enough,
By "infinityreader" (Columbus IN) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Desperado (Mass Market Paperback)
I am a big fan of Palmer and because of this i rushed to borrow this book ASAP.I finished reading the book with hopes that it would get better, i kept hoping that Cord would stop feeling guilty and get out of the Texan-mercenary-regretful role. The development of the characters was weak. For all of Cord's intelligence he seemed pretty dumb in regards to Maggie. Maggie desparately needed to bone up and stop acting like al love sick female i mean considering all that she has been through in regards to the oppositie sex This book is sooooooooo predictable- Maggie's secret can be seen a mile away There was no suspense- from Chapter 3 i could already tell how it would end and what would be the fate of the bad guys A true novel should allow the possibility for the love birds being seperated for life That was not the case From the onset it was evident that they would be together as soon as Cord got his act together. I regret to say that Diana Palmer is suffering from writer's block and because of this cannot come up with an original plot but just keeps reusing the innocent female- who has always loved the experience male- who was always to blind to see her This book was not a total waste of my time though The conversations between the two major characters and the romance was off-the-hook Palmer i am a big fan so pleaaaaassseeee come up with a less predictable plot
5.0 out of 5 stars
Sexy as all!!,
By Red Reiber (Palouse, WA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Desperado (Mass Market Paperback)
I couldin't put it down to go to work. I think this is the best of Diana Palmer. I liked how Maggie and Cord had already met and had conflicts from the past. Desperado is a good way to describe the book, you shouldn't miss out!
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