Suspense lights up in every page of this fast-paced blockbuster of thrills! When Sloan Booker’s father dies tragically, he has no other option but to give up his job as an FBI agent and take over his family’s vehicle restoration business in Oahu, Hawaii. Giving up his badge is difficult but having Homeland Security and his old boss request the use of his house in a stakeout, spying on his Muslim … in a stakeout, spying on his Muslim neighbours who they suspect are terrorists, is just too damn much for a man already frazzled. It makes no difference that they’ve offered him a partner to be in charge of the surveillance… until he meets the gorgeous divorcee.
Special Agent Alia Hawkins might look more like a model than a cop but looks can be deceiving. Not only does she rescue street kids, fights their battles and transports them to safe homes, but since she lived many years in Pakistan and speaks their language, she’s a sought after agent. So far, she’s kept her personal life and job separate. But when Alia’s slimy ex-husband threatens to steal her eight-year-old son, she has no choice but to bring him along on her latest undercover assignment – living with a hotshot agent as his long lost stepsister. One look at sexy as hell Sloan Booker is all it takes for Alia to realize, pretending to be this man’s stepsister may be her most challenging assignment yet.
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I’m a huge Mimi Barbour fan and Agent Booker didn’t let me down. If you enjoy page-turning suspense you’ll love this one!
This author’s writing style is so sharp you can hear it snap. The story is engrossing and highly entertaining. The characters are interesting and they face many twists and turns along the way in this suspenseful read. The pace steadily builds to an exciting conclusion. Excellent read!
Cops and FBI and helping get young girls off the street, all while bringing in romance! What a feat! I loved this book and the Hawaiian setting, too. Mimi was also adept at weaving in some mystery. I love all her books, but this is one of my favorites.
4.5 stars
Sloan was a FBI agent but when his dad was killed in a car accident, he hung up his badge and went to run the vehicle restoration business his dad had. Alia is model beautiful and a kick butt FBI agent, who also helps kids on the street. She has an eight year old son and his father has threatened to take him from her. So they move to Hawaii and now Alia has a new assignment, pretend to be Sloan’s stepsister and move in with him. Sloan’s neighbors are foreigners and the government wants them watched. They has been some chatter about terrorists planning something big.
First time reading this author and I loved it. Secrets. Action. Steamy sexual tension. A little boy and a cat. There are some hilarious situations.
This was a good
Sloan was a one time a FBI agent but when his dad died he needed to help run the family garage. Alia was raising her son with help of her friend Ruby who she helped save in San Diego. Now in Hawaii they need to stop a terrorist ring.
By the time I got into Chapter 11 (18% on my kindle) I had some definite thoughts on it already. I thought, “oh if this keeps up, its going to be a really good book, one that I will love”. And it did continue that way and I did love it. I enjoyed every minute of it. Both Alia and Sloan were unique and attention getting all on their own. They had both been through some stuff. with Alia probably going through the most stuff. Sloan never knew his mother but he did end up growing up with 3 Dads. It made for a very unusual but loving situation; because each man loved him just as if he was their son. Each one of them, straight men who kind of adopted him as their own son. One of them was but the reveal about that doesn’t come til almost the end. I really liked that it was a character driven story as much as the missions that figured in. Those “missions” both personal and professional kept my attention too. The romance between Alia and Sloan (who was often just called just Booker) was a good one; without nothing moving too fast or too slow. I enjoyed the depth of both of their lives. The family feel to part of the story, the relationships that were close made me enjoy the story even more. The secondary people in the story added a lot to that feeling too. I just seemed to blow right through the book. I was sorry to see it come to the end. I have to say that each one of the books in the Special Agent Undercover FBI series is one that I have really forward to. Because so far, I have enjoyed everyone of them. I hope the author keeps it up, both the series and the quality.
I was given a gift of this book and have voluntarily decided to write a review.
Mimi Barbour, ‘Special Agent Booker’,
Undercover FBI Series, book 5.
Rating: 3,5 stars (of 5).
In general: FBI agents with complicated families find love.
Main characters:
– Alia Hawkins.
FBI Special Agent. After her parents died she lived with her muslim aunt and uncle in Pakistan. Later she studied Criminology and joined the FBI in San Diego.
She was shortly married, got a child and divorced her lying workaholic, often drunken husband. He was a wealthy semi criminal, remarried with a young wife and threatened Alia to claim his rights on his son (although never interested in him before) when she refused to give her eggs for the IVF procedure to give him a child with his infertile, new wife.
With Ruby, a nanny (and best friend) from the Philippines, she raised her son, Kean, as a single mom, living in Hawaii, the island to which she fled after the threats of her influential ex-husband.
– Sloan Booker.
Ex FBI Agent. He loved his FBI work and had a hero reputation, but he left the agency to help and renovate the old timer garage of his dad, who recently was killed in a car accident. Now he worked as owner/manager in this garage in honor of his late father and to keep jobs for the two old, loyal co-workers of his dad.
Alia and Sloan meet when the FBI wants to use Sloan’s house for the surveillance of his muslim neighbours, who could have connections with terrorists.
At first their relationship is difficult. Alia’s priority is her son, then her job and after her marriage she distrusts men. And especially womanizers like Sloan.
The author, Mimi Barbour, describes how Alia’s opinion of Sloan step by step changes when they work together. The good looking man appears to be loving for children, caring for family and friends, serious in his work. While Sloan fell for the beautiful, sassy Alia when he saw her for the first time.
In addition Mimi Barbour creates a not very original, but sometimes exciting story about terrorism, kidnapping, help for abused street children and the life in a small Hawaiian community.
So – for me – an interesting book to read.
R. Huiszoon.