This is book #5 in the Vicky Bliss series--her penultimate adventure. After months of sending weekly postcards (and making a few visits in between the cards), John stops writing to Vicky. Where is he? Has he forgotten her? Meanwhile, an intelligence agency requests Vicky's help in identifying a criminal aboard a luxury Egyptian cruise. Vicky suspects it might be John they're looking for and she's angry enough to finger him. But when she does encounter John, she's shocked to meet his new woman as well. Angry, hurt, increasingly confused in her role as amateur spy, Vicky blindly steps into a complicated trap set for her
and for John. He is in more trouble than he's ever been, it seems, and they may not make it out of this one alive.
I think I like this book best in the series. I was just as taken in as Vicky was and so the resolution of the mystery was very satisfying to me, the gullible reader. Vicky's headstrong nature consistently leads her into jumping to conclusions and rushing into emotionally-based bad decisions...seems pretty human, doesn't it? And yet John is always there...making it all right, even when it seems hopeless. Of course, Vicky does her share of rescuing once she understands what's going on. I also liked how amazing Schmidt was in this book. I'm liking how much of a starring role sweet (and rich and smart) Schmidt is starting to get in Vicky's adventures.
Bad language: mild cursing
Sex: yup. But no descriptions.
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