Sabrina Fox has a rep as a spy. She's a darned good one.She works for an under the radar agency loosely connected with NASA called IT&PA. Her agency does covert duty when CIA can't legally go in. Since nobody knows IT&PA exists, this invisible agency can use lethal force if necessary.
After single handedly rescuing an Israeli diplomat and his family who were being held hostage, leaving four terrorists dead, she's being sent to Paris to recover some very sensitive codes. The only problem is she's been getting late night phone calls, someone broke into her apartment and she's been followed. Could it be Eric Drake, the legendary Interpol spy called "The Dragon," who used to be her London counterpart and also her boyfriend. Two years aog, Drake dropped out of her life under a cloud at Interpol and nobody has seen him since.
She longs to hear his voice and yet she hates him. He betrayed her. In their last mission he allowed her to be captured, or didn't do enough to stop it to her mind, though he rescued her later and became the big hero. But what really rankles her is he slept with an enemy agent to get into a position to accomplish the mission for their agencies. That was the biggest betrayal.
Now Director Marx has her running around Paris and enemy goons are after her. Marx knows she can handle even the most dangerous job. She's single, unattached and willing to take chances, even using her considerable feminine whiles on enemy agents. In places the author pushes the character into very steamy situations and toughts.
She tried to escape the goons who are after her in France by getting on a train where she then encounters Drake. He knows everything. Someone's been feeding him intel, but who? Has he turned? Is he now working for the enemy? The author leaves just enough strings unattached her to later set up red herrings.
Sabrina wants to trust Drake when he says they have to get off the train. Enemy goons are on the train with orders to eliminate her. She won't listen to him. He betrayed her before. There is an electric moment between them but her reluctance to trust him causes them both to be captured. She's clonked on the head, but the last thing she sees is Drake forced to his knees in an execution stance with a Glock pointed at his head.
She comes to in the back of a fast moving truck and sees Drake crumpled on the floor. He's not dead. They didn't kill him, but why? As Sabrina starts thinking there's something "off" about this mission, the reader who is following clues sees that things don't quite add up, which adds to the intrigue. Later Sabrina and Drake are captured again and Drake is forced to his knees again. Sending each other eye signals, they manage to escape, killing one goon.
They make their way to a vast French estate where the codes are hidden and Drake tries to tell her someone she trusts is going to kill her. He believes it was his rival at Interpol, Colin Ledger, who is about to replace Director Marx as head of IT&PA, a job that once was offered to Drake. Ledger's also in love with Sabrina which gives him double motive for having set Drake up to look like a traitor to his country, forcing Drake to leave Interpol under a cloud.
Sabrina has given a sleeping potion to the old French aristocrat who has the codes locked up in his bedroom safe, when all technological transmissions fail. Three men, all who she knows enter the room pointing guns at each other. Has one of them set the others up? Has more than one of them gone bad? Who is the traitor? Who will leave this room alive? One of the men is Drake, and her heart is beating wildly at the thought he might be killed, even as she fears she may also be killed.
The traitor is exposed and Sabrina is able to hurriedly buy Christmas presents for her formerly estranged family while still in Paris, finally catching a plane back to the States. You'd think the story was over, but then the romance heats up again and gets incredibly steamy again. A good, fast paced read.
