

So Stephanie travels to Sierra Leone to rescue Joe…and finds herself.

Joe ends up in jail in Freetown, while the bad guy has arranged for the rest of the BOIs to be on a blackout mission and, thus, completely out of touch. Joe has a lead on the truth, but he doesn’t want Stephanie-or the rest of the BOIs-involved if things go badly. The BOIs were on a mission in Sierra Leone when they were ambushed and Bryan was killed. Not that he wants to, of course, but he feels he has to. But when this book begins, Joe’s in the process of breaking it off with Stephanie. It’s referenced, and we meet Joe, but we never really spend any time with the two of them together until this book. The romance between “Mean” Joe Green and Stephanie Tompkins-sister of the late Bryan Tompkins and daughter of Robert and Ann who have become substitute parents to all the BOIs-began several books ago as a secondary plotline. Naturally, the answer is “something more.” There wouldn’t be much of a story otherwise! (BOI) books: What really happened on the mission on which Bryan Tompkins got killed? Was it just bad intel, or was there something more? This book finally answers the question that has been plaguing the characters through the first six of Gerard’s Black Ops, Inc. Romantic Suspense published by Pocket 31 Jan 12 Laura C’s review of Last Man Standing (The Men of Black Ops, Inc., Book 7)by Cindy Gerard
