Death Angel - Linda Howard

penerbit Piatkus
tahun 2008
page 341
Price : RM12.00
Summary: A striking beauty with a taste for diamonds and dangerous men, Drea Rousseau was once content to be arm candy for Rafael Salinas, a notorious crime lord. Then, when he loans her to a cold-blooded assassin as payment, Drea makes a fateful decision and a desperate move to escape, stealing a mountain of cash from the malicious killer.
Though Drea runs, Salinas knows she can’t hide - and dispatches the same assassin in hot pursuit. Left for dead, Drea miraculously returns to the realm of the living a changed woman. Both humbled and thrilled with this unexpected second chance, she embraces her new life.

But in order to feel safe and sound, and stop nervously looking over her shoulder, she will need to take down the man who marked her for death, even if it means joining forces with the most dangerous - but most enticing - man she’s ever known.

Please note that this is an adult book, and not YA like most of the books we review on here tend to be so it does have some M rated themes in it.

Kiss Me While I Sleep - Linda Howard

Penerbit PIATKUS

Tahun 2008

Page 344

Price RM12.00

Summary :
Another thriller with a tough CIA lady, this time Lily Mansfield who was recruited by them as a contract assassin at the tender age of eighteen. She is now in her 'thirties and living in France, where she commits the mortal sin of a private killing. An Italian godfather type, Salvatore, has had her two best friends and her almost-adopted daughter killed for blowing up his laboratory where he is involved in a vaccine scam. Lily devotes months in getting close to Salvatore, so that she can poison him with a doctored bottle of wine. Now his son is after her, as well as the CIA, as Salvatore was one of their 'assets'.
The Agency sends Lucas Swain, another trouble-shooter out to dispose of Lily, but the inevitable happens and they fall in love. Together they finish the work that Lily's friends died for, destroying the laboratory where not only is an influenza vaccine being made, but also the virus that it protects - the scam being that when released, the world-wide pandemic will make them rich by selling the cure.
A far-fetched story, but well-written and exciting in the 'what-happens- next' department. Chapter 26 is entirely devoted to sexual intercourse, which is certainly anatomically, if not politically, correct! When we think back to the criminal prosecutions for D H Lawrence's Lady Chatterley and poor old Hank Janson's bosomy covers in the 'fifties, we realise what an enlightened age we now live in!