Slim To None

by Taylor Smith

Security specialist Hannah Nicks has one earn enough money to regain custody of her son. The fastest way to accomplish that is to take on a covert, privately funded mission in the Middle East. But when the mission ends badly, she realizes the price of her the loss of a young ally, the reward money and her reputation.Two years later Hannah is back in Los Angeles. When a chance encounter leads to the man who ruined her mission, Hannah plans to even the score. But she doesn’t expect to unravel a tangled web of lies and treachery that could drag America to its knees. Her only ally is a cop who has burned a few too many bridges himself and understands that the odds are always better when you have nothing left to lose.

Genres: Fiction

400 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

After a career as an international diplomat and later an intelligence analyst, Taylor Smith turned her experience into bestselling fiction. Taylor currently lives in Southern California.

Reviews

[Janet · Rating 2 out of 5]

Hannah Nicks is a good heroine but the plot just didn't keep me riveted. I was able to finish the book but it's not something I could recommend.

[Penny Hoover · Rating 3 out of 5]

Quick read and fast paced. End a bit hokey.

[Darla Stokes · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book started off trying to make me sympathetic to the heroine, an ex-cop turned mercenary, but that backfired. I was supposed to see her as feminine in a tough situation, but anyone who wears earrings large enough that you have to remove them to talk on the phone is ridiculous. Then she's carrying one of her son's baby teeth with her to keep him close, and that was just creepy.

I did get caught up in the action, but there were too many different missions, and they didn't really come together in the end. It felt more like parts of several different stories forced into one book instead of fleshed out into 3 or 4 individual books.

[Krystal · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was an okay book for what it was. I didn't expect much from it, other than to fill the void till I can go to Barnes and Noble.
It's a about an ex-police woman, turned special operative. She is trying to save enough money to win back custody of her son. At the end of the book, I never really got how all "the action" tied together, though it seemed the author really wanted it to.

[Craig · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book. It did start out a little slow as others have mentioned, but it got going quick enough. Really liked the lead character, Hanna. The author does a great job getting you to care about her. There were a few lose ends left, but not too bad. Easy to recommend, and I will look for more by Taylor Smith.

[Katherine Clark · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really love this author. I fear, though, that this was her last book. It was an odd mishmash of a book. It could have been three separate books, but they were pulled together, and not completely successfully. I did like the characters and the seemingly inside look into the intelligence community.

[Jewelz]

So far its ok..i still need to get into it!

[Linda Mcsharry · Rating 3 out of 5]

A little slow to start but now very good.

[Sue · Rating 1 out of 5]

Usually I like this author but just couldn't get into this one.