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Review: The Russian Obsession by Nikki Navarre

Review: The Russian Obsession by Nikki Navarre

To uncover the truth, Max and Christa must win their toughest battle yet. 
The battle of hearts between them. 
THE RUSSIAN OBSESSION
Foreign Affairs #3
Nikki Navarre
Releasing Feb 21, 2017

 

ChristabelOrlova remembers nothing before the night she woke in a Turkish bazaar with two

passports, two governments on her tail, and no memory of her shadowy past.

Armed only with keen wits, survival instincts and mad skills in the research

lab, Christa has three goals. Stay alive. Stay one step ahead of her hunters.

And find a cure for the Ebola bioweapon whose secret is locked in her

brainbox—before it wipes out the human race. Gypsy, loner and wild child, her

first rule of survival is never to trust.

Ex-Russianfighter pilot Max Vasylko is a gun-for-hire smuggler who’ll fly contraband

cargo anywhere in the world, no questions asked. But he can’t fly far enough to

forget the wife and daughter who died in an Ebola outbreak. When a bioweapon

from a rogue U.S. program is to blame, Max’s mission turns personal. Find the

scientist responsible for designing the super virus—and make her pay. The last

villain he expects is Christa: a smart, sexy, scrappy survivor in hiking boots

who’s lost her own brother to the virus.

Now Max isflying high above the African jungle with enemy agents in his six and a sweet

redhead he’ll risk his backside to protect. Christa’s tempted to trust this

hot-as-hell jet jockey with his wildcat courage and Mafia past. But the vaccine

isn’t the only secret locked in her head. To uncover the truth, Max and Christa

must win their toughest battle yet. The battle of hearts between them.

When Christabel Orlova wakes up alone and without remembering even her name, she has to trust her instincts in order to survive.  Fast forward 2 years and she finds herself in Russia working at a lab and slowly patching up her past life untilshe discovers the FSB (former KGB) and the Americans are allafter her and something they call the cookbook.
Max Vasylko is a gun for hire currently working as a muscle for the American Embassy in Moscow.  He’s got his eye on Christa since he first saw her, but the doc seems to be out of his league…until he first saves her life.
This is a high octane story, full of passion, mystery and adventure.  I felt I was watching an action movie all through the book and really, really enjoyed it.  Christa and Max are both survivors, nomads who won’t stay anywhere too long and who know the key to stay alive is to not trust anyone, but the time comes in which they will have to trust one another in order to ensure their survival.
I liked the storyline and how engaging it was, but I felt at times it was a little slow for my taste.  Still, The Russian Obsession filled my expectations of the globetrotting adventures of a sexy mercenary/smuggler pilot and a lab rat lost in the labyrinth of her own mind.
4 Book Corner Stars
*An ARC was provided in exchange for an honest*

 

 

DOSSIERFOR NIKKI NAVARRE

DECLASSIFIED

Subject:  NikkiNavarre

Assignment:  DoubleAgent

Cover:  Diplomat.Playgirl. Author of the Foreign Affairs

series.

 

NikkiNavarre

is theauthor of the award-winning Foreign

Affairs series and the sinister twin of unsuspecting historical

romance author Laura Navarre.  In her

other life, Nikki is a diplomat who’s lived in

Russia and works on weapons of mass destruction issues.  In the line of duty, she’s been trapped in an

elevator in a nuclear power plant and has stalked the corridors of facilities

churning out nerve agent and other apocalyptic weapons. In this capacity, she

meets many of the world’s most dangerous men.

Inspired by the perilous realities of her real life, Nikki writes romantic suspense

set in glamorous international locales and laced with political intrigue.  From her island compound in the Pacific

Northwest, she divides her time between her writing career and other adventures

for government clients.  Her notorious

exploits in the world of diplomacy will get her in trouble one of these days.

TheRussian Obsession

may be the last mistake sheever makes.

 

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