Publisher’s Weekly review: Cyber geek meets seductive spy girl in this feverish Silicon Valley thriller… Half-French, half-Algerian Ani Sharif, whose parents were murdered by extremists 10 years earlier when she was at a private girls’ school in Algiers, has joined the United States Security Agency. On her first undercover assignment, Ani must uncover who’s selling Defense Department cyber … secrets to foreign governments. The prime suspect is Richard “Baby Rex” Rexford of Rexford.com, where Ani lands a programming job by playing the part of an opportunistic cyber pirate. Her mission is to hack into Richard’s home laptop and locate incriminating evidence. What she doesn’t bargain for is falling in love with this possible traitor. …a fast-paced romantic romp as the spy games escalate into erotic games, testing Ani’s faith in her ability to separate business from pleasure. Swift’s brisk narrative offers an unusual blend of romantic suspense and cyber crime. (Feb.)
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Review: Spy Game
Spy Game is an intriguing novel filled with action, suspense, romance and a touch of humour as you watch young USSA operative Ani Sharif on her first undercover mission to infiltrate Silicon Valley’s playboy tycoon Richard Rexford AKA T-Rex software company Rexford.com.
The Author has created characters that are both believable and loveable at the same time, as you watch them play out the respective roles both in the office and in the bedroom as their romance blooms both discovering something neither have had.
Ani is both a free spirit that does not like to be tied down while at the same time a computer hacking genius Harley riding bike chick. While Richard is CEO of Rexford.com but his heart his yacht the Trophy Wife and the sea, Like Ani he does not like to be tied down and prefers the open ocean, many would say he is emotionally unbailable until he meets Ani and he struggles to keep his desires in check and the more he learns about Ani the more he wants her and not just for her computer skills.
Who would think a staff meeting that the programmers like every other staff member that works at Rexford.com on Sexual Harassment could change the Game for Ani and Richard.
Ani is faced with a difficult decision while undercover at Rexford.com how to gain access to Richard’s computer and complete her mission and not lose her morals and heart, a task ultimately Ani loses giving her heart and body to Richard only to realise her has betrayed her in the worst possible way he could and her revenge is the sweetest she could do, to his beloved Trophy Wife. This is also one of the best revenges I have read about how she goes for what she knows will hurt him the most and the funniest.
The hero and heroine do find love together but first they must face trials and work together while trying to get over the other.
There is plenty in this story to keep you entertained and wanting to keep reading only to be disappointed when you find out you are at the end of the book because you just want to keep reading about the world the Author has created for these two. These are well researched and well developed characters and plot lines providing a clear understanding of both what the story is about and what is happening.
The bedroom scenes what can I say they are just HOT HOT HOT. But its not over the top or too detailed that it becomes slow and boring for the reader, even in the bedroom there is action to the max.
Soon as I got this book in my hands, I was interested. The cover design was one of the first things I noticed and it captivated me.
Ani Sarif is a young woman, who has been working years for government agency as their hacker, so when she finally got a chance to do her first undercover work she wouldn’t be more excited; she has to seduce Richard Redford, leader of the biggest software companies, to find out if he had been selling secret information for the Chinese.
As the story follows we can see how Ani has to figure out things she didn’t know before, so she would succeed with her mission.
Plot was built perfectly, it was easy to follow what is happening and it wasn’t confusing keeping their reader in their captive until the very end. The characters were interesting and you could see yourself as the heroine, their backgrounds made each of them even more interesting and left me want to know even more about the side characters too. Sex scenes between two of the main characters were tastefully written and could make anyone who would be reading them get hot too.
This story will get five out of five cupcakes from me.
5/5