Header PromotionTangled Lives by JoAnn Ross (HT 345)
Tory Martin is a foreign correspondent with the associated press, covering troubled areas. Now she's taken 3 weeks vacation to get revenge on the dictator of a small Latin American country, La Paz. Her sister, a singer, was having an affair with the General when she decided to blackmail him into marriage (preceded likely by a divorce from his actual wife) – resulting in a car “accident” that almost killed her. Tory is pretending to be La Rubia, a blonde bombshell singer, in the hopes of getting the General's attention and thus access to his house and hopefully the damning evidence of whatever he could be blackmailed for, which would hopefully allow him to be arrested. Only Mitch Cantrell recognizes La Rubia as Tory from their 3 month affair in La Paz 8 years ago when Tory first started working abroad. And he's not going to let her get herself killed, plus he's actually working on a story investigating the General's illegal activities.
I gotta be honest and say that I find Tory a little TSTL for coming up with this plan and for ever thinking it might work. I mean, she's a foreign correspondent, she has no experience being undercover, and she thinks she can just invent a famous alterego and have that girl run around a bring down an empire? Mitch is a little more down to earth, being worried about her cover being blown, but he believes her when she tells him no one suspects anything, when really... Add to all this the 5 years Mitch spent as imprisoned by Islamic jihadis (breaking up his post-Tory marriage as he was declared dead after the jihadis released video of “him” being shot to death) which didn't leave a trace of PTSD or anything, and the book was just a little too far fetched for me.
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