Dead Aim
by Iris Johansen
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Author: Iris JohansenEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-03-02
ISBN: 0553584383
Number of pages: 368
Publisher: Bantam
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Book Review: same as every other Iris Johansen novel
Summary: 2 Stars
If you've read one Iris Johansen novel, you've read all of them. You have the strong willed, hard headed, and emotionally crippled heroine. And then there's the equally strong willed, hard headed, sexual, and martial arts/weapons trained mercenery/cop/independently wealthy through suspicious means hero. Put those two together and you got your typical Iris Johansen book. The first time I read one of her novels ("the Ugly Duckling"), it was very enjoyable. It's refreshing to see an author describe women as the aggressor and not another damsel in distress. It's also good to read about the less than perfect hero, though jaded and harden in their own way, tried their best to seduce the heroine with their intellect and heart instead of flawless goodlooks. However, after the 5th novel of the same type of characters, just with different names, I grew tired of the same old stories.
What confused me most about this novel is that the heroine, Alex Graham, behaved with complete lack of common sense for a person in her position. If I was forced to be on the run, hunted by top US government agencies, and am protected by a trained mercenery (the hero) with years of experiences over me, I'd would do whatever I was told and not go against my protector's advice. It amazed me that 1) she hadn't been caught or killed within the first chapter 2) the hero hadn't slapped her for her stupidity 3) the hero actually falls in love with someone like her and 4) that after all the clumsy dumb moves she made dispite his advice, at the end he still had the patience to want her around.
Also what confused me was the inability of the combination of Homeland Security, CIA, FBI, and a well trained North Korean assassin to take down one mere woman. Considering the vast resources of just one of those above mentioned agencies, let alone the combination of all three, how had it been possible that the characters had not been caught? It may be possible to hide out for a week or so, but I refuse to believe that as long as they lived in the US, with such detailed backgrounds on them as the government agencies had, that they can hide out for as long as the author discribed.
Towards the end I had to constantly remind myself the novel is almost over with. When I did get to the end, it was as anti-climatic as could be. Definitely not one of Iris Johansen's finest work.
Summary of Dead Aim
The #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen returns with an electrifying and all-too-plausible thriller that pushes the level of suspense to the maximum and never lets up. From the tense opening scene to the final explosive page, Johansen delivers a knockout novel, as an unlikely pair of allies must expose a team of killers hiding behind an unspeakable act of terror?and risk ending up their next target.She witnesses death through the eye of her camera. Now a relentless killer is focused on her. A celebrated photojournalist, Alex Graham has seen it all?but her latest assignment has forced her across a dangerous line. What happens when a reporter does more than just report? She has recorded some of the most tragic and heartbreaking of catastrophes, everything from natural disasters to infamous acts of terror. Her experiences have left her forever marked with the human side of tragedy. So when a dam breaks in Arapahoe Junction, Colorado, Alex is once more at the site doing more than just snapping pictures?she is in the mud with a shovel digging for survivors.
What happens when the reporter becomes the story? Alex finds more than she bargained for. In one terrible instant, she is witness to a conspiracy that will stun a nation. The official story is just a cover-up for a truth so frightening, so unthinkable, anyone who threatens to reveal it must be silenced. Forever. And now that someone is Alex Graham.
The first attempt on her life is swift and brutal. Only barely escaping, she finds an ally in an improbable source. Billionaire financier John Logan has his own reasons for protecting Alex, and these reasons alone are likely to get her killed. Using his vast connections and influences, Logan assigns a bodyguard to protect her. Judd Morgan is the best covert commando in the business, and if anyone can keep Alex safe, it?s this quietly dangerous man. The problem is, Alex doesn?t want to be kept safe by Judd, whose checkered past has made him the target of an unseen assassin who dogs his every step.
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