Gayle Wilson Double Blind

Double Blind

Gayle Wilson

HQN, Nov 2005, $5.99, 384 pp.

ISBN: 0373770731

Bodyguard Will Shannon awakens to find himself with a severe headache, a terrible case of vertigo, and on the floor of the living room in his employer's mansion. He has no idea how he got there, with his last recollection being at a restaurant while his client drug mogul Greg Vincent dined. He manages to finally get up to go check on Greg who he finds in the man's bed dead, a bullet to his head fired from Will's gun. When he hears a car brake, he realizes the cops have arrived, but wonders who called them. Trying to sneak away to buy time, he is shot in his left arm.

Will has no place to go except his former Secret Service partner Caitlyn Monroe, who he loved. She insists he see a doctor and call the police, but he refuses, insisting the frame is too perfect. Will believes he must solve the case to prove his innocence; Cait reluctantly agrees to help him, even while thinking how their love for one another, back when they were teammates cost them both so much professionally and personally.

DOUBLE BLIND is an exhilarating continual action thriller that never slows down until the final confrontation, as the police and FBI seek Will as their prime suspect, while he must elude them to buy time to prove his innocence. Unable to stay out in spite of her hand injury that serves as a memento of her former career, Courageous Cait has to help him, which makes her an accessory. Gayle Wilson provides a fast-paced romantic suspense starring two intrepid but tainted heroes.

Harriet Klausner