Out of Sight by Cherry Adair, Wright Brothers/T-FLAC Organization, Ballantine Books, Rating: B

This installment of the Wright/T-FLAC series is set in Egypt and reads about as steamy as the desert setting you get a taste of.

Rookie A.J. Cooper is a beauty queen, turned cop, turned T-FLAC operative. She's a top-notch sniper and was pulled from training to go to Cairo with the living legend, Kane Wright, and his team. Her assignment, take out a target. Freezing at the moment, she sets to prove it was not a mistake to bring her along. Nothing seems to get through Kane's armor, though. Traveling in the desert together in the middle of a sandstorm and with technology knocked offline by who knows what, they are very much alone as they try to complete their mission. Cooper's photographic memory comes in handy as she can recall the maps she's looked at easily and decipher where their target might be headed. A beauty and used to getting men based on those looks, she's not sure what to make of Kane when they're partnership turns personal. A strong woman, she proves herself and then some - not just to Kane, but to T-FLAC and Secret Service members alike. She refuses to give up even against odds most would cave under.

Kane Wright is a man who works alone. After a mission gone bad two years ago that resulted in his team being killed and him being tortured for two months he wants nothing to do with teamwork. Particularly a rookie who looks the way A.J. Cooper does. And when she screws up he has to save her hide, risking his own life in the process. The only reason he doesn't send her back to T-FLAG headquarters is because higher ups wanted her to remain. Stuck with her he decides to make the best of it, not realizing just how good he was going to have it.

Throughout Out of Sight, Kane attempts to guess what A.J.'s given name was before she had it legally changed to AJ. It's quite comical to hear the different combinations he comes up with, sometimes it's a diversionary tactic to get her mind off the situation they're in. The scenes between this couple were hot, I'm not sure I'll ever look at camels the same again. I enjoyed Out of Sight and rate it a B.

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