Guest Review: Dead Double – Tracy Cooper-Posey

Dead DoubleTracy Cooper-PoseyA reclusive Iranian genius will give the west the secrets to cold fusion, but only to Micky Wilde, who once charmed him. But Micky is dead. Logan Wilde is forced to use Sahara Taylor-Hughes, who is Micky’s double in appearance. Sahara’s gentle soul puts Logan in an agonizing dilemma. How can he equate the appearance of the woman he hated with the woman he’s falling in love with?As Sahara is drawn deeper into the operation and closer to Logan, she battles her own history-everyone she loved has died and left her alone, and Logan works in a field where life can be brutally cut short. Can she give her heart to this man?Zaram, a renegade terrorist, will hold the western world to ransom if he gets the plans first. Logan must help Sahara beat Zaram, collect the plans and make sure she stays alive, or else lose his mind…and his heart

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Release Date:  November 15, 2012
Publisher:  Tracy Cooper-Posey
Source:  Provided by Author
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Reviewer’s Thoughts:

Tracy Cooper-Posey’s story Dead Double begins with an exciting standofff that is a thriller to the end.  Logan Wilde is the classic agent with great aptitude, impeccable timing, excellent shooting habits, and an amazing ability to spot small bits of information and come to conclusions that save the day.  What follows the exciting introduction is a very predictable storyline.  The female protagonist, Sahara, is a struggling business owner with a business set to go bankrupt in about 6 months.  She is spotted by Logan and mistaken for his previously deceased companion for whom she is identical, hence the name of the book Dead Double.  She is recruited into the agency with a promise to save her business and that she can leave after the mission is complete.  She and Logan fall in love. The end.  Despite the predictability of the storyline I found myself captivated by the characters.  The author does an excellent job of layering the personalities of the characters such that you become entwined in the story and care about how the characters.  The plot contains sufficient twists to keep the story moving and wraps up neatly with a happy ending for the couple.

I will say that this was a slow read for me because the storyline was so predictable.  I found myself pushing this book to the end of my reading list because I knew how it would end and the pace of the story slowed significantly after the hostage standoff at the beginning.  The character development and storyline twists eventually pulled me in and carried me to the completion of the book.