excellent as are all of Tess Gerritsen books. Never Say Die / Call After Midnight Never Say Die is the 6th stand-alone novel by popular author, Tess Gerritsen. Physical anthropologist, Guy Barnard works for the US Army ID Lab, identifying remains of MIA US soldiers. On his way to Saigon to do just that, he is blackmailed into looking for a US pilot turned traitor who flew for the VC, known as “Friar Tuck”. Willy Jane Maitland has come to Asia to try to find her father, Wild Bill Maitland, MIA in 1970, but whom she and her mother believe is still alive. Wild Bill is also believed by some to be the notorious Friar Tuck. Coincidentally (??), Guy and Willy encounter each other in Bangkok, where Guy is drawn to Willy not only because she can help him find Wild Bill, but also because he is really very attracted to her. As Guy and Willy try to track Bill down, they are shadowed at every turn: the CIA? The Vietnamese Government? Someone acting for Bill? There are many throats slit and Willy finds herself wondering if there is anyone she can trust, but eventually, help comes from and unexpected quarter. This Gerritsen offering has plenty of action, drama, romance and a bit of sex. The heat and humidity of South East Asia is palpable and the dialogue is credible. It has an interesting plot with a few twists. Excellent early Gerritsen.
Call After Midnight is the third stand-alone novel by popular author, Tess Gerritsen. The action starts with Simon Dance, alias Geoffrey Fontaine, faking his own death in a hotel-room fire in Berlin. When his wife of two months, Sarah, is notified of the death in a late-night call by State Department employee Nick O’Hara, she is convinced it is a mistake. By the time Nick O’Hara has shared with her the facts he has learned, Sarah realises she really did not know her husband at all. A haunting phone call from Geoffrey sends her to London, where the mystery deepens. This is another Gerritsen novel with plenty of plot twists to keep the reader guessing. The action moves from Washington DC to London, Berlin and Amsterdam. Police, CIA, FBI and the State Department are all involved. There are car chases, fights on trains, torture by knife and scrambles across rooftops. The plain but plucky heroine finds herself accused of murder, sleeping in a windmill and on display in an Amsterdam brothel. Romance, action, violence and a few hot sex scenes are all part of the mix. Gerritsen does romantic intrigue well, and this early novel is just a taste of her later work. A page-turner.
This omnibus comprises two Gerristen novels that feature secret messages passed covertly in public places, men who have horribly disfigured faces, killers who wield knives and the “trust no-one” theme.
Never Say Die / Call After Midnight
NEVER SAY DIE
Willy Jane Maitland travelled to Saigon to find out what had happened to her father, reported missing in action twenty years ago. Instead, she found intrigue and murder. Only the rumpled and irreverent ex-soldier Guy Barnard seemed willing to help her.
But as Jane was about to discover, even Guy had his hidden motives, his shocking secrets... and Vietnam was a dangerous place to fall in love.
CALL AFTER MIDNIGHT
A ringing phone awakens newly-wed Sarah Fontaine. instead of her husband calling from London, it's Nick O'Hara from the U.S. State Department. Geoffrey Fontaine, her husband of two months, has died in a hotel fire in Berlin.
Convinced her husband is still alive, Sarah forces Nick to help her and soon the pair are criss-crossing Europe searching for Geoffrey and risking everything for answers that may prove fatal.
From the bestselling author of Under the Knife comes a riveting, intense tale of old secrets and betrayal. Never Say Die / Call After Midnight