Flee by J.A. Konrath and Ann Voss Peterson is a non-stop thriller on enhanced steroids with the wildest combination of sexy women, nasty women, nasty guys and enough weaponry to start a war. This has to be the fastest moving novel I've ever read---indeed, the pacing of my own work in progress picked up speed just by osmosis! Konrath's own ever popular female star Jack Daniels makes a sweet cameo, but the heroine of this sexy beast is another female named Chandler, who finds herself in the unenviable position of having her cover blown with not a friend or sister to turn to. Assassins are after her because she has something they want. Oh and there's a lot pain, sweat, pleasure and tears. But that's all I'm going to say about the story, as it would pain me to ruin your pleasure.
What's amazing about this loaded .45--er book--is that it is so seamlessly written by two people. Except for one scene, I dare anyone to accurately differentiate between Konrath and Voss. Back to that one scene in a moment. Whether Chandler is using a Tec-9, a Mercworx VORAX double-edged combat knife or a bottle of 2007 MacPhail Pratt Pinot Noir to smack her would-be assassins silly, she is a veritable Baedeker of how to survive against all odds. But she gets so beat up, so bruised and so battered while trying to outwit and outshoot her opponents that I was either too exhausted to read more than a dozen pages an evening or my eyes hurt from all the wincing I did every time Chandler got herself on the wrong end of the two-timing, double-crossing son of a guns who were out to kill her.
Now, about that one scene. Well...how can I put this more delicately than Konrath/Peterson? There's a scene early on in the novel that has Chandler wanting some hot sex. Warily, she hooks up with someone she met on line---oh, she's careful, she meets him in a restaurant, eliminates any trace of her whereabouts on the computer, uses her slightly rusty hacker skills to make sure he's who he said he is, and goes back to his apartment with him.
Being who she is, Chandler handcuffs him to a table and then proceeds to climb atop him, after pulling his pants down. There's oral sex...her to him, him to her, and I have to say, it's the hottest sex scene I've read in a long time. Now, this from a woman who sleeps with women...make that one woman. But the question is: which writer wrote that scene? I think I know. You might think Konrath wrote the bj scene because you might erroneously think every male's first favorite fantasy could only be written with as much gusto as this one if a man wrote it. But are you very certain? Heh. (The second favorite male fantasy being the entirely ridiculous illusion that two women would actually WANT to be with a guy...I'm kidding, I'm kidding: of course it exists, but I don't' know any.;-) Now, for the second part of that sexy scene, I'm torn---it could be that Konrath wrote that second part, too, but let's not forget that Peterson is one cunning linguist, also. OK, groan, but...so, I'm not sure about that part. Wonder if I'll ever know?
Bottom line, you'll excuse the phrase, is that this book at $2.99 is the best buy out there right now for a good read, a great escape, a fantasy steam bath, followed by a sauna following a triathlon workout that'll drop that last 10 pounds you've been trying to lose. Don't read this book if you've got breathing problems, though, because it will take your breath away faster than Chandler can...well, you know...shoot. Or whatever.
I was going to give this book four stars, but after I slept on it (yes, I literally fell asleep on my iPAD after finishing the book), I realized that any two people who put that much energy, action, passion and old-time good story-telling into a book like Flee is a great friend of thriller readers, hell, all readers, everywhere. I bought it on Amazon. I downloaded Kindle for iPAD, paid me my three bucks and got me my thrills.
Five Stars all day long.
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