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Bodyguards Unlimited, Denver, Colorado #2
Special Assignment
They Needed to get Their Hands on a Killer and Keep Them off Each Other
Denver cop Mike Lawson had faced his share of adversity, but so had PPS tech whiz Cassie Allen. So when he was hired as her personal bodyguard while she decoded a mysterious computer disk, the last thing they needed to do was to act on their attraction. As Cassie closed in on deciphering the secrets someone was desperate to protect, the attempts on her life increased. Suddenly, no amount of safeguarding seemed enough to keep the auburn-haired beauty out of the line of fire. Mike's past was filled with people he'd loved and lost. He'd do whatever it took to keep his special assignment off that list....
256 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published April 1, 2007
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Ann Voss Peterson
106 books102 followersAnn Voss Peterson is the author of over thirty novels and has millions of books in print all over the globe. Winner of the prestigious Daphne du Maurier Award and a Rita finalist, Ann is known for her adrenaline-fueled thrillers and romantic suspense novels, including the Codename: Chandler spy thrillers she writes with J.A. Konrath and her own thriller series featuring small town Wisconsin police chief Val Ryker.
A creative writing major in college, Ann worked all manner of jobs after graduation, ranging from grooming show horses to washing windows, and now she draws on her wide variety of life experiences to fill her fictional worlds with compelling energy and undeniable emotion.
She lives near Madison, Wisconsin with her family and their border collie.
A creative writing major in college, Ann worked all manner of jobs after graduation, ranging from grooming show horses to washing windows, and now she draws on her wide variety of life experiences to fill her fictional worlds with compelling energy and undeniable emotion.
She lives near Madison, Wisconsin with her family and their border collie.
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June 24, 2015
Detective Mike Lawson has been having a hard time lately. He turned in three dirty cops who were on the take, violating an unspoken brotherhood oath by doing so, and now most of the Denver PD has turned against him. Since getting jumped one night by the Dirty Three and having his duty weapon stolen while he was passed out, he's been suspended from the force. While on suspension, he's approached by the head of a private security company, who needs Mike to play bodyguard to Cassie Allen, one of her computer technicians, who's in charge of decoding a mystery disc.
Cassie is brave, tough and frighteningly smart. She's also deaf, and her boss is concerned that her disability may prevent her from hearing anyone who comes after her. And it's likely that someone WILL come after her - it appears that one person connected to the disc has already been murdered...
I didn't really understand what was going on in this book. Although the back doesn't list it as part of a series, I got the feeling from reading it that it was, or at least that certain things that are mentioned - like the murder of Nick Warner - had happened in previous Ann Voss Peterson books. Perhaps if I'd read these books, Special Assignment would have made more sense to me. As it was, I couldn't quite work out several salient plot points. (There is a possibility that the plot was resolved and I just missed the resolution, I was quite tired when I finished the book.) For example, I'm not quite sure where the disc came from, or what the numbers on it actually meant. I know they were coordinates, but for what I have no clue. I don't know how Nick Warner's murder was connected. Possibly with a second reading, things would become more clear, but my gut feeling is that it's the book that's confused more than me.
Fuzzy plot aside, I did enjoy it well enough. It kept my interest until the end. Mike and Cassie were both pleasant characters - I liked his steadiness and integrity, and her feisty independence, although at times I found her a bit reckless.
I don't have anything majorly positive or negative to say about this one. It was reasonable. 3 stars.
Cassie is brave, tough and frighteningly smart. She's also deaf, and her boss is concerned that her disability may prevent her from hearing anyone who comes after her. And it's likely that someone WILL come after her - it appears that one person connected to the disc has already been murdered...
I didn't really understand what was going on in this book. Although the back doesn't list it as part of a series, I got the feeling from reading it that it was, or at least that certain things that are mentioned - like the murder of Nick Warner - had happened in previous Ann Voss Peterson books. Perhaps if I'd read these books, Special Assignment would have made more sense to me. As it was, I couldn't quite work out several salient plot points. (There is a possibility that the plot was resolved and I just missed the resolution, I was quite tired when I finished the book.) For example, I'm not quite sure where the disc came from, or what the numbers on it actually meant. I know they were coordinates, but for what I have no clue. I don't know how Nick Warner's murder was connected. Possibly with a second reading, things would become more clear, but my gut feeling is that it's the book that's confused more than me.
Fuzzy plot aside, I did enjoy it well enough. It kept my interest until the end. Mike and Cassie were both pleasant characters - I liked his steadiness and integrity, and her feisty independence, although at times I found her a bit reckless.
I don't have anything majorly positive or negative to say about this one. It was reasonable. 3 stars.
November 25, 2010
This was one of the most well written, true to life books I've ever read. A magical story is webbed together of how even with a disability it doesn't make you weak and shouldn't effect the way you are treated.
Prescott Personal Securities tech whiz, Cassie Allen, has finally gotten her biggest chance to prove herself with the case she has just been assigned. All she needs to do is decipher an encrypted disk. Without knowing her, you wouldn't guess that she is deaf since the age of 19. All her life she has been surrounded by people always treating her like a child, but she has worked hard to be able to decode this disk. However, when she learns Denver cop Mike Lawson is going to be her body guard while she's on the case she's furious. Not necessarily at Mike, they've worked together in the past with no problems, but for the fact that no one else would be assigned a guard.
Mike Lawson is reluctant to take the job of guarding Cassie. Personal attraction to her aside, he has his own skeletons in his closet over his own family and he has just been put on suspension from the force for losing his gun after 3 cops that he turned in beat the snot out of him. But deep within him he knows he can't refuse and walk away not knowing what might happen to Cassie.
As threats against Cassie build to more extreme stunts, the two of them must depend on each other in order to save their lives. Despite being in danger, Cassie can't help notice that Mike doesn't treat her like she can't hear. In fact, the more time she spends with him to more comfortable she is and even begins talking out loud for the first time in a while, but can she help him forgive himself for his past mistakes?
When both are captured, they must push their limits in order to live to see another day and be together.
This is a beautiful story of disabilities not controlling your life.
Prescott Personal Securities tech whiz, Cassie Allen, has finally gotten her biggest chance to prove herself with the case she has just been assigned. All she needs to do is decipher an encrypted disk. Without knowing her, you wouldn't guess that she is deaf since the age of 19. All her life she has been surrounded by people always treating her like a child, but she has worked hard to be able to decode this disk. However, when she learns Denver cop Mike Lawson is going to be her body guard while she's on the case she's furious. Not necessarily at Mike, they've worked together in the past with no problems, but for the fact that no one else would be assigned a guard.
Mike Lawson is reluctant to take the job of guarding Cassie. Personal attraction to her aside, he has his own skeletons in his closet over his own family and he has just been put on suspension from the force for losing his gun after 3 cops that he turned in beat the snot out of him. But deep within him he knows he can't refuse and walk away not knowing what might happen to Cassie.
As threats against Cassie build to more extreme stunts, the two of them must depend on each other in order to save their lives. Despite being in danger, Cassie can't help notice that Mike doesn't treat her like she can't hear. In fact, the more time she spends with him to more comfortable she is and even begins talking out loud for the first time in a while, but can she help him forgive himself for his past mistakes?
When both are captured, they must push their limits in order to live to see another day and be together.
This is a beautiful story of disabilities not controlling your life.
May 25, 2009
I cannot recall reading an Ann Peterson romance suspense. That said. This being my first Ann Peterson novel I was not unimpressed just less than thrilled by the suspense, and real lack of romance. There should be a gradual build-up (if that's the author's intent) of the character's attraction and the plot can be a vehicle to move that attraction along.
Cassie is deaf and that handicap does not seem to hinder her, though at times her complaining about Mike coddling her for being deaf got to be annoying. Overall I have seen romance suspense done better and could not really pull anything more enjoyable than wanted to just get to the end. I would not mind reading this author again.
Cassie is deaf and that handicap does not seem to hinder her, though at times her complaining about Mike coddling her for being deaf got to be annoying. Overall I have seen romance suspense done better and could not really pull anything more enjoyable than wanted to just get to the end. I would not mind reading this author again.
December 27, 2015
2.5 stars
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