Author: Kendra Elliot
Published: June 2019 by Montlake Romance
Category: Crime Fiction, Suspense, Thriller, Book Review
The job: infiltrate a militia amassing illegal firearms in an isolated forest community. FBI agent Mercy Kilpatrick is the ideal candidate. She knows Oregon. She’s near the compound. And having been raised among survivalists, Mercy understands the mind-set of fanatics. Lay low, follow rules, do nothing to sound an alarm, and relinquish all contact with the outside world. She’s ready to blend in.
FBI Agent Mercy Kilpatrick is recruited to join ATF agent Chad Finn, already working undercover in an anti government, arms selling militia group called America’s Preserve.
She is to pose as his girlfriend and between them find out what the group have planned with a cache of stolen weapons. Mercy has two days to learn the ATF created history for Jessica Polk, and the very dangerous role she is about to play in an environment where women are decidedly inferior to the men.
In Mercy’s favour was the fact she’d grown up with survivalist prepper parents and knew the likely mindset of the group. The condition Mercy was really struggling with was the no contact rule. She couldn’t tell anyone, even police chief Truman Daly, the man she was about to marry, where she was going. There were no mobile phones allowed in the compound and she had no backup, only herself to rely on.
Supposedly Chad had convinced Mercy—Jessica—to leave her miserable waitressing job in Moses Lake and come and live with him and his like-minded friends at the compound for a new beginning.
Meanwhile Truman was kept busy as first one body, then another is discovered dumped, both bearing similar gunshot injuries, indicating executions, which also raises the question of a serial killer. Despite all this going on his thoughts were never far away from Mercy, desperate for her assignment to be over. When a third body is found it changes the whole dynamic of both cases.
At some point Mercy had become essential to him. To his happiness and peace of mind.
This is another series that always sounds so good – maybe one day I’ll be able to splurge read them! The idea of armed militias being legal always amazes me… and horrifies me! It doesn’t seem like a very relaxing hobby… 😉
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The militia angle is quite a terrifying thought but it was a great series.
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