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Colby Agency #10
Her Hidden Truth
Her Hidden Truth by Debra Webb released on Jan 24, 2003 is available now for purchase.
256 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2003
About the author
Debra Webb
555 books2,482 followersDEBRA WEBB is the USA Today bestselling author of more than 180 novels, including reader favorites the Finley O'Sullivan and Devlin & Falco series. She is the recipient of the prestigious Romantic Times Career Achievement Award for Romantic Suspense as well as numerous Reviewers Choice Awards. In 2012 Debra was honored as the first recipient of the esteemed L. A. Banks Warrior Woman Award for her courage, strength, and grace in the face of adversity. Recently Debra was awarded the distinguished Centennial Award for having achieved publication of her 100th novel.
With more than ten million books in print in numerous languages and countries, Debra’s love of storytelling goes back to her childhood when her mother bought her an old typewriter in a tag sale. Born in Alabama, Debra grew up on a farm. She spent every available hour exploring the world around her and creating her stories. She wrote her first story at age nine and her first romance at thirteen. It wasn’t until she spent three years working for the Commanding General of the US Army in Berlin behind the Iron Curtain and a five-year stint in NASA’s Shuttle Program that she realized her true calling. A collision course between suspense and romance was set. Since then she has expanded her work into some of the darkest places the human psyche dares to go. Visit Debra at www.debrawebb.com.
With more than ten million books in print in numerous languages and countries, Debra’s love of storytelling goes back to her childhood when her mother bought her an old typewriter in a tag sale. Born in Alabama, Debra grew up on a farm. She spent every available hour exploring the world around her and creating her stories. She wrote her first story at age nine and her first romance at thirteen. It wasn’t until she spent three years working for the Commanding General of the US Army in Berlin behind the Iron Curtain and a five-year stint in NASA’s Shuttle Program that she realized her true calling. A collision course between suspense and romance was set. Since then she has expanded her work into some of the darkest places the human psyche dares to go. Visit Debra at www.debrawebb.com.
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April 8, 2026
Having enjoyed the first book in The Specialists series by Debra Webb, I was excited to dive into the second one, featuring new characters and a standalone plot. Unfortunately, this particular adventure was more than a little jarring when compared to the danger-filled first.
Vince Ferrelli works as a Specialist, part of a team that salvages missions for the CIA or FBI when things go very wrong. He's called in to help trap a brilliant terrorist who is using college students to carry out his attacks by convincing them they are actually working for the CIA. The real CIA has an agent on the inside, Kat, only she'd been given an experimental brain chip that has replaced her real memory with that of her cover identity. The chip has a special Romeo protocol that will allow one person from the outside to get close. That's Vince.
Only Vince has already betrayed Kat several years ago, and he knows she must still hate him. Now he has to keep from betraying her trust again as he tries to foil the mission and keep her safe.
As plots for romance novels go...this ain't bad.
Unfortunately, my problems started pretty early. Mostly with the kids who think they are doing their patriotic duty.
Firstly, they act like mobsters, not college-aged spies. They threaten to kill each other over the dumbest things and have no qualms about the death of innocent people for the "mission". Yeah, way to go, "good guys".
My other qualm is that the two male leads act like jerks and obsess over owning Kat "body and soul" like crazy people. So that soured my perspective on these romantic rivals.
The action is also brief and sketchy. At no point did I think a bunch of college kids would believe a top secret offshoot of the CIA would need them to bomb a church for the greater good. These kids are dumb, is what I'm saying. And despite all the scribbling about Vince or Kat or Yu drawing their "weapon" and being a menace with it, there's no real action until the last two chapters and then the book almost redeems itself...but instead wraps up plot points with recklessly short paragraphs and vague snippets of violence that seem reluctant to say that anyone actually got shot or hurt.
In the end, no matter how well-paced her story, Debra Webb did not hook me with either of her plots. Not the brain-washed romance and not the college dorks play James Bond.
A lot of potential in this one just left on the plate by the end of the meal.
Vince Ferrelli works as a Specialist, part of a team that salvages missions for the CIA or FBI when things go very wrong. He's called in to help trap a brilliant terrorist who is using college students to carry out his attacks by convincing them they are actually working for the CIA. The real CIA has an agent on the inside, Kat, only she'd been given an experimental brain chip that has replaced her real memory with that of her cover identity. The chip has a special Romeo protocol that will allow one person from the outside to get close. That's Vince.
Only Vince has already betrayed Kat several years ago, and he knows she must still hate him. Now he has to keep from betraying her trust again as he tries to foil the mission and keep her safe.
As plots for romance novels go...this ain't bad.
Unfortunately, my problems started pretty early. Mostly with the kids who think they are doing their patriotic duty.
Firstly, they act like mobsters, not college-aged spies. They threaten to kill each other over the dumbest things and have no qualms about the death of innocent people for the "mission". Yeah, way to go, "good guys".
My other qualm is that the two male leads act like jerks and obsess over owning Kat "body and soul" like crazy people. So that soured my perspective on these romantic rivals.
The action is also brief and sketchy. At no point did I think a bunch of college kids would believe a top secret offshoot of the CIA would need them to bomb a church for the greater good. These kids are dumb, is what I'm saying. And despite all the scribbling about Vince or Kat or Yu drawing their "weapon" and being a menace with it, there's no real action until the last two chapters and then the book almost redeems itself...but instead wraps up plot points with recklessly short paragraphs and vague snippets of violence that seem reluctant to say that anyone actually got shot or hurt.
In the end, no matter how well-paced her story, Debra Webb did not hook me with either of her plots. Not the brain-washed romance and not the college dorks play James Bond.
A lot of potential in this one just left on the plate by the end of the meal.
July 29, 2012
My official rating is 3.75. This book was a quick, fun read. It was loaded with tons of action and I want to read the first books of this series--The Colby Agency.
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November 29, 2016Used - Good (Some spine creases)
February 14, 2023
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