Tara Janzen Crazy Wild

Crazy Wild

Tara Janzen

Dell, Feb 2006, $6.99

ISBN: 0440242606

Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special operations and Low Intensity Conflict the Honorable William J. Davies orders General Buck Grant to shut down the Columbian job immediately. He wants three of the four agents to handle a potential terrorist act in the American Heartland where a Soviet nuclear bomb is headed. He also demands Buck not use that lunatic Creed Rivera, the ghost killer.

However, Hawkins, Hart or Chronopolous are unavailable, even if Buck could find any of them; thus he sends Creed without a leash, leaving behind his comrade and the two terrorist killers they stalk. Outraged, Creed flies to Denver to abduct the most dangerous woman in the world, Cordelia "Cody" Stark, who looks like the poster child for librarians rather than an international nuclear arms broker. However, as Creed stalks her waiting to make his move, three brutes attack her. With her cover broken and unable to shake Creed who saved her life, Cody flees, knowing that if caught she will spend time in Leavenworth, but at least the map that everyone wants is stashed away in a terrific hideout in plain sight.

The third "Crazy" tale is a wild romantic suspense starring perhaps the craziest of the foursome and the only woman for him, the courageous somewhat kooky Cody. The storyline, like its predecessors (see CRAZY HOT and CRAZY COOL), is fast-paced from the moment that Creed arrives in Colorado, and never slows down until the final altercation, in which all hell breaks loose with Cody in the middle. Fans of the miniseries and sub-genre readers will enjoy the tale of the Blond Bimbo and the Bomb, mostly due to the two "bad to the bone" protagonists.