contemporary

This is the fifth in Suzanne brockmann's S.E.A.L. series for Mira books. It is just as good as the first three. I thought the fourth EVERYDAY AVERAGE JONES was not as good.

Harvard is the only black member of this SEAL team, and we have been waiting for his story.

When FinCOM agents are training with SEAL teams anything can't happen, they have rules. Like only 8 hour days. No out of country training missions, limited runs, etc.

Joe Cat needs for them to realize that they can't do what the SEAL's can. One of the agents is P J Richards, a woman. He wants the members of his team to become friends with one of the FINK agents. Turns out the best agent is PJ.

Harvard has trouble seeing her as an agent and as capable as she is. This causes trouble between them from the start.

PJ is not a trusting soul either. The dance of working together and romantic attraction leads to other problems. Over the course of 8 weeks they manage to overcome most of their problems.

However, on a planned mission, fubar happens. PJ and Harvard are the only ones in place who can rescue Joe Cat who has been shot and captured by tangos. With several Marines dead, they know they only have one chance and very little time.

As with all of Brockmann's books everything works out at the end and we have a good time with these characters.

As an African American woman,I especially enjoyed Harvard and P.J's story. The "TD&D" series is a favorite of mine. As fellow agents yet from different agencies the two of them fall hard for each other! They just don't know what to do about it.Being freinds however is a good place to start. Of course the romance sizzles after the truce is declared. Harvard is not the sterotypical African Amer. male nor is P.J.sterotyped. I like that.Thanks Suzanne for a fabulous book! Please hurry the next issue!

I agree with the reviewer who had a complaint with Mira's cover for this book, but my complaint is different.Our hero is described as a large man, our heroine as a petite little thing. Yet the cover shows a silloutte (on the Mira reprint, no less) of what appears to be a mother with her pre-adolescent boy. The other Mira reissues boasted cover art which was much superior to the Sillouette originals- to the extent that I ordered new copies of both Prince Joe and Frisco's Kid just to get the better looking books.Fortunately, the stories inside are just as delicious, no matter how yucky or yummy the cover art. Do the people who decide on the cover art even know what the stories are about? Obviously they don't bother reading them.This seems to be a very common problem particularly in the Romance genre.That complaint aside, I do not want to discourage the reissue of further books in this series. It's the only way I'll ever be able to afford to collect the rest of the series. I'm still missing 5 of these, and the team 16 bunch are getting hard to find,too. Boo-hoo. Why didn't somebody tell me how great these books were before they got so hard to find?