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Into the Crossfire: A Protectors Novel: Navy Seal [Mass Market Paperback]

Lisa Marie Rice (Author)
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Publication Date: 5 Dec 2011 | Series: Protectors

Sam Reston's world is dangerous, uncertain, violent . . . with no room in it for the helpless and weak. Then the most beautiful woman in the world moves next door to him . . .

Nicole Pearce's life is complicated enough. The last thing she needs is to get involved with a secretive, hard-bodied, hard-headed neighbor. Yet Sam leaves her breathless--her body tingling with desire--and it takes every ounce of her fabled control to resist offering herself to him, no strings attached. What she doesn't know is that Sam Reston is on an undercover assignment . . . and she's about to step into the crossfire.

Never has Sam ached for a woman so badly. Now Nicole's in grave danger and he will become her shield. Because a terrorist plot hatched half a world away is heading to their doorstep--and it can be derailed by only one man and one woman.

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  • Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Avon Books (5 Dec 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0062085794
  • ISBN-13: 978-0062085795
  • Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 2.7 x 17.1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 601,336 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing effort 12 Aug 2010
By W_A
Format:Paperback
The hero of Into the Crossfire is Sam Reston, a security specialist and former Navy SEAL, who is instantly obsessed with Nicole Pearson, a translator, when she moves into the office across from his. His chance comes when she is locked out of her office and he persuades her to go out to dinner with him if he manages to pick the lock and get her door open. One thing leads to another and they end up in bed together, he then seeks to protect her as her life becomes endangered, and simultaneously there is a suspense plot developing with a terrorist.

The romance side of things is underdeveloped as the entire book takes place over three days and we're not really shown any genuine relationship development. From the beginning Sam's internal dialogue is all about how she's `the most beautiful woman on earth', with some lip service paid to the fact that she's nice and takes care of her sick father. There is no impression, beyond the physical, of why they want to spend the rest of their lives together after three days. We're told that Nicole is so incredibly beautiful she is constantly pursued by men and is picky about her lovers, taking several note-perfect dates before sleeping with someone. With this kind of lead-in I felt like the author needed to lay the groundwork for what (in 3 days!) made for a genuine lasting happy ending.

I'm a big Lisa Marie Rice fan; over the last few years I've read pretty much everything she's publishing and enjoyed most of it. I also don't have a problem with formulaic plots; if I did I wouldn't read romance. However, this book felt lazy, like a threading together of parts of her other books and I had to suppress sighs and eye-rolling constantly.... Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 stars Into the Crossfire 29 May 2011
By lady jane
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I buy all LRM's books, they are in a style I enjoy and do always look forward to the next book.

This book did not seem to flow as they do normally, there does seem to be something missing. Everthing seems to happen so fast.

Don't misunderstand me - I fell in love with Sam and liked Nicole. If you have never read a book LRM before, I do find I fall in love with the hero and like the heroine. Sam is an ex SEAL who has never known the love of an "immediate" family although he has 2 "brothers" who love and respect each other. He hopes that he can convince Nicole that he is the man for her and that they can become the family he craves.

Nicole, even though she feels that eventually she could love and have a future with Sam - is coping with building a new business and caring for her dying father whom she adores and will do anything for. She can't even think of her own future at the moment and hasn't found a man who can share her with her father and not demand more than she can give - until she meets Sam. Who she has categorised and who proceeds to shatter all the pre-conceptions she has of him.

I have already bought LRM's next book and will continue to buy.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Far less than her best 29 July 2010
By Reacher Fan 1909 - Published on Amazon.com
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Lisa Marie Rice is one of my favorite steamy romantic suspense writers, but you'd never know it by this book. Closer to 2.5 stars than 3, Into the Crossfire is about as cliche ridden a book as I've seen lately. I realized in the first 7 pages, after reading how breathless former SEAL turned security specialist Sam Reston was each time he saw the 'most beautiful woman in the world', Nicole Pearce, I was in for a real disappointment, but I kept hoping. Pages and pages of hero and heroine with pounding hearts, the loss of coherent conversation, and, well, breathlessness. Never have I read a more overwrought opening chapter for a romantic suspense novel. It was classic old-fashioned bodice ripper stuff, only worse.

Unfortunately, the first third of the book could easily have been shortened by 60 or more pages to create a more tightly written story line - or at least one that had the kind of suspense and action one expects in romantic suspense. All that breathlessness and so little story made for dull reading. There was the typical sex scene where - I'm sure you'll be shocked - they were breathless and neither could speak due to all that chemistry and .......... probably oxygen deprivation from all that breathlessness.

The story finally gets moving, sort of, in the last third of the book. Unfortunately, time is past for developing the kind of thrills a romantic suspense novel should have. Heroine is saved, hero is well, heroic, bad guys are foiled, but chief bad guy goes to England to try again. Predictable. Character and relationship development is pretty much non-existent.

Into the Crossfire read like a book outline heavily padded with melodrama. Suspense was in short supply, kind of like breath. A real disappointment from a usually reliable author.
18 of 20 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed but still hopeful 29 July 2010
By Kelly M. Sullivan - Published on Amazon.com
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I have been waiting impatiently for LMR's newest book and was a little disappointed. It was a great plot, great couple but she seemed to spend way too much time on background information and not enough on the characters falling in love or even interacting together. They seemed to only speak twice and the love affair wasn't developed. When they first hooked up romantically I looked down and half the book was already read. I like great dialogue that shows a connection between couples and LMR has ALWAYS delivered. I hope that now that she used 3/4 of this book to set up the plot the next two books will focus on the couples interacting together too.
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars When an alpha-hero tears off your $150 La Perla panties does he have to buy you new ones? 18 Oct 2010
By Hooked - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
Security company owner Sam ogles Nicole the owner of the translation company across the hall. Nicole's company is sent an encrypted email warning of a terrorist attack. Bad guys try to hunt down the email and silence Nicole. Sam must save her.

Pros: I love the way Rice writes. Her books are well-paced and involving. This book has a better plot than most and the terrorist sub plot is very interesting. The characters are typical: beautiful heroine with family baggage paired with alpha-male hero from a bad upbringing, with an elite military background, and with an enormous hard-to-control Johnson at the mere thought of the heroine. This hero also has a clear disregard for expensive lingerie. It's a formula, but it works for me because I love the internal dialog Rice applies to her heroes. Her heroines are, um, easy, to put it nicely, and succumb to the intense sexuality of the hero on the first date -- though she's never done anything like that before, of course not. (Hey, they only have 300 pages to get it on, she can't be too coy.) In this book Nicole runs out while Sam is sleeping after the first time and then avoids his calls. This leads to some really good writing as Sam tries to figure out what turned her off and how to get her back.

Cons: It was a really good plot until the TSTL* moment when Nicole delivers herself on a silver platter to the bad guys without leaving any breadcrumbs for Sam to follow. The cop Mark doesn't behave like a trained cop when he goes along with Sam on his rescue mission.

Overall this is a fun read. Again, it follows a formula, but it's one I'll read over and over again because I love this author's voice and there are enough subtle differences in plot and character to trick me into thinking I'm reading a different book. Highly recommended 4 stars.

*TSTL--To Stupid To Live. The moment at which an intelligent heroine loses her brains and does something so incredibly stupid you can't relate to her anymore. (Imagine Michelle Obama bored at a state dinner suddenly starting a food fight to liven things up. Wouldn't happen.) Sometimes used as a plot device to quickly achieve dramatic tension, the heroine does something dumb putting herself in danger so that the hero can save her. A TSTL moment is when it backfires on the author and you say, "Oh, come on," and close the book.
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