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Flashpoint (Troubleshooters, Book 7)
by Suzanne Brockmann (Reader: Patrick Lawlor and Melanie Ewbank)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Brilliance Audio Unabridged (2004-03-30)
ISBN: 1593555903
EAN: 9781593555900
Dewy Decimal #: 813.54
Audio Cassette
Edition: Unabridged
Release Date: 2004-03-30
SKU: S06CD5-2866
Condition: Very Good
Comments: Very Good overall condition. Orignal box. Very good tapes. Ships same day or next well protected. Enjoy
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Jimmy Nash has already lived two lives - and he cant talk about either of them. Formerly an operative of a top secret government agency, he has found a new job with a shadowy company called SOS Inc. Created by a former Navy SEAL, SOS Inc. helps anyone in desperate need - which provides a perfect cover for its other, more perilous objective: covert special operations.
Now Nash and a quickly assembled team of expert operators have come to the earthquake-ravaged country of Kazbekistan in the guise of relief workers. There, amid the dust and death, in a land of blood red sunsets and ancient blood feuds, they must track down a missing laptop computer that may hold secrets vital to national security.
To get it done, Nash does what he does best: break every rule in the book and manipulate those who can help him get what he needs. But this time, Nash may have met his match in Tess Bailey, an SOS operative with all the right instincts - and zero field experience. The deep attraction between them is immediate . . . and potentially volatile, with risk at every turn.
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Customer Reviews
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Took a lot attempts to finally read this one
Rating  (3)
Date: 2007-12-11
15 out of 15 customers found this reveiw helpful
The Troubleshooters - an elite group made up of former military, intelligence, and police personnel are sent into Kazbekistan to retrieve a briefcase belonging to an al-Qaeda leader killed in a deadly quake. Along for the ride are CIA partners Larry Decker and Jimmy Nash, as well as computer specialist Tess Bailey. Tess and Jimmy shared a night of passion on the last op and Jimmy disappeared soon after. Their number one priority is to retrieve the case; unfortunately, they spend far too much time trying to live down their one night stand. Decker manages to happen upon the mysterious Sophia who was forced into marriage to K-stan warlord Padsha Bashir after he murdered her husband. Deck and Soph get off to a rocky start and when he realizes his error in judgment, he doubles his efforts to find her, but she has quite a price on her head, and plenty of others are looking for her too.
Easily one of the weakest of Brockmann's SEAL 16/Troubleshooter series, the story gets bogged down by the constant romantic discussions and too stupid to live moments. With people like this looking out for our interests, no wonder the Middle East is a mess. Missing (except for a brief appearance near the end) are the SEALs. The diluted romance between Jimmy and Tess is lukewarm at best, and the Sophia/Deck romance barely gets off the ground. The final mission is so anti-climatic, it's hard to reconcile that this is the same writer who brought us great stories like "Over the Edge" and "Hot Target" in the same series. This barely held my interest; I think I started this novel about six times before finally committing to finishing it.
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A bit different from the others but incredibly complex passion.
Rating  (5)
Date: 2007-08-08
1 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
Here's the new breed of super-heroes, employed by none other than our collective heart-throb ex-SEAL Tom Paoletti. His new company is called Troubleshooters Inc.: covert special ops, going where no government dares to go, etc. You know the drill! Jimmy Nash and a team under the leadership of the fascinating Lawrence Decker (and there's a story within a story - you'll be screaming for his book!) enter Kazbekistan as `relief workers' following an earthquake. Their mission is to find the laptop of a top al-Qaeda operative, killed from injuries in the quake, hopeful it will yield info on potential world-wide terrorist attacks. Computer whizz Tess Bailey also comes, disguised as Nash's wife. Problem: after a previous `Agency' ambush gone wrong, Nash had an explosive one-night stand with Tess, knowing she was probably in love with him. Posing as husband and wife in very close quarters increases Nash's blistering, protective attraction to her. To complicate things, they're under intense scrutiny from suspicious locals, and face the increasing threat of imprisonment and torture at the hands of the cruel, fanatical warlords. Then there's Decker's little `problem' screwing up things, which is really unexpected! Suzanne Brockmann delivers incredibly complex passion in this romantic suspense, with things escalating to a heart-stopping flashpoint. You'll be holding your breath all the way through.
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Couldn't put it down
Rating  (4)
Date: 2007-05-08
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
I just happened to run across Suzanne Brockmann by chance and now I am looking forward to reading all of her books.
Flashpoint was the second one of her books that I've read and I couldn't put it down. I found myself reading it during TV commercials, then I just turned the TV off and kept reading, and reading and reading. I was even reading it at work until I just had to finish it.
This book had just enough romance to keep you going and enough suspense to keep you wondering what would happen next. I would recommend this book to all my friends.
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Not a bad book, but not really fitting of the series it comes from
Rating (3)
Date: 2006-07-07
6 out of 7 customers found this reveiw helpful
7th book in the SEAL Team 16 series.
Hmm...well, what comes to mind to say first about this book is that it was good, if taken simply as a book on it's own, but if you take it as part of a series where 6 books came before it, it was lacking.
Flashpoint begins a new phase in the SEALs series, a serious sharp left hand turn from the previous books. After the events that happened in books 5 & 6, several SEALs and FBI Agents left there jobs - some willingly, some not - and formed a security consultation firm, Troubleshooters Inc (TI). So in this book, instead of being focused on SEAL activity, you have a mission being done by TI. Because of all this, you have not only a new book premise, but also an influx of new characters. All of the main characters in the book were completely new.
The main focus is on Jimmy Nash, a former "Agency" operative who is working for TI now. Then there Tess Bailey, a former "Agency" support staffer who joins TI because she wants to do field work. She and Jimmy had a one night stand 2 months before the book started. Those two, along with a few other agents, have been given an assignment to go to Kazbekistant (fictional country) to retrieve the laptop of an al-Qaeda associate who was killed in a recent earthquake. Once there, they meet Sophia, an American in hiding and in big trouble.
As I said, the book on it's own isn't too bad. The plot was somewhat interesting, and the characters weren't too bad. Tess and Jimmy's romance was fairly decent. On just an overall level, the book kept me reading, but it didn't necessarily have me enthralled.
The problem, though, is that it IS part of a series and Brockmann almost completely disregards everything she set up and did in the previous 6 books. Well, to a certain degree. The idea for TI was born at the end of book 6, so tha was used, but that was about it. She didn't follow the format she'd always used, she didn't utilize all the wonderful characters she'd built up, nothing. It barely felt like the book was connected at all. Tom Paoletti (book 1) has a short appearance at the beginning and the end, because he runs TI, Cosmo Richter, a SEAL has a cameo, and Sam and Alyssa are mentioned once, but that's it. She doesn't even tell us anything about Troubleshooters, only the barest of details. Considering the setup of the book, a more detailed description would have been nice. I missed the historical flashback scenes in this one too.
Overall, the book was a bit of a disappointment. Brockmann should have stuck to the formula that made the other 6 books work.
Rating: 3 / 5
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Audio Book Review
Rating (3)
Date: 2006-05-06
3 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
I listened to the 13 hour audio CDs while traveling in the car and it made the time pass quickly. There are two voice actors reading this story. It is an average tale that is more romance than suspense - definitely not Tom Clancy! Fairly entertaining characters, but the constant bickering between Nash and Tess got old pretty fast. It was also unbelievable that they were trying to have a conversation about their relationship as they were carrying guns and trying to escape from enemy confinement! The repeated use of "four-letter-words" is more irritating when heard so often on the audio (somehow it bothers me less to read them then to hear them).
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