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CIA agent, Piper Roth, is bearing down on a homegrown separatist group with an agenda against Uncle Sam while former Navy SEAL, Mike McCloud, is investigating a rogue scientist with a penchant for viruses. When their investigations collide, the pair's smoking-hot one-night-stand in the capital of Sudan proves a huge mistake. Now Mike and Piper must put aside their proclivity for brinkmanship and join forces in the face of a double-fisted terrorist attack—one viral, one electro-magnetic—pouring hellish fury upon one unsuspecting American city, turning it into a lethal fever zone.
Publication date: January 2015
Mature content: yes
Review: Fever Zone is book one in the Danger in Arms series by Cindy Dees, though chronologically it kind of follows Close Pursuit - and both Katie McCloud and Alex Peters (from Close Pursuit) show up as secondary characters in Fever Zone.
Fever Zone was probably not the best of books to read while in lockdown, especially when you get to the part where a new virus was engineered to become as contagious and as dangerous as possible and is to be used as a biological weapon in a terrorist attack - but in terms of action it's a great book. Barring a few holes in the plot here and there, the story is gripping and convincing.
The romance? Not so much, in my opinion. For me a huge part of the romance was spoiled right on the first pages. when Piper and Mike have sex literally minutes after meeting for the first time - in the middle of a war zone and knowing nothing about the other except that they are both snipers and speak English with an American accent. After that I was much less inclined to believe in the seriousness of their relationship and sticked to the book for the suspense and the action.
But flawed romance aside, it's still a fun book to read.
Fever Zone was probably not the best of books to read while in lockdown, especially when you get to the part where a new virus was engineered to become as contagious and as dangerous as possible and is to be used as a biological weapon in a terrorist attack - but in terms of action it's a great book. Barring a few holes in the plot here and there, the story is gripping and convincing.
The romance? Not so much, in my opinion. For me a huge part of the romance was spoiled right on the first pages. when Piper and Mike have sex literally minutes after meeting for the first time - in the middle of a war zone and knowing nothing about the other except that they are both snipers and speak English with an American accent. After that I was much less inclined to believe in the seriousness of their relationship and sticked to the book for the suspense and the action.
But flawed romance aside, it's still a fun book to read.
Happy readings,
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