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Book Review of The Defiant Hero (Troubleshooters, Bk 2)

The Defiant Hero (Troubleshooters, Bk 2)
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Meg Moore is approached by a man in a parking garage. He tells her that her ten-year-old daughter Amy and her elderly Grandmother Eve are being held hostage until Meg complies with their demands. Meg must enter the Kazbekistan Embassy and kill Osman Razeen, a known terrorist. With no other option, Meg enters the Embassy, taking the Ambassador, Razeen, and a third man hostage. When the hostage negotiator contacts her, Meg insists that she will speak with no one except Navy SEAL John Nilsson. Meg and John have a past. She knows if anyone can help her get her daughter out of the hands of extremists, John is the man for the job.

The second book in Brockmann's Troubleshooter series is even better than the first. I had a hard time putting this book down. Not only do we have Meg and John's story, we had a riveting suspense story, a flashback to a WWII romance, and some positively scorching scenes between Sam and Alyssa. I'm loving this series and wish I could just jump into the next book right now. My rating: 5 Stars.

2022 RE-READ: I'm working my way through the series again and this book just did not hold up for me. I did not like the heroine this time around. She asked John for help, but really would only do things her way. Why bother asking? She refused to tell him the whole story concerning her daughter's kidnapping until we were through 90% of the book. Ugh!

The other parts of the book (Eve's WWII flashbacks, Sam & Alyssa's love-hate relationship) brought my rating back up. My new rating: 4 Stars.