HOT TARGET

The audio format enables Brockmann's multiple plot lines to be complex yet remarkably easy to follow. Patrick Lawlor presents Max Bhagat, a larger-than-life counterterrorism expert running on rage and booming expletives. Immune to the guffaws of fellow officers when he proves he's unarmed in a hostage situation by walking into it naked, he's terrified in a couple's therapy session. Melanie Ewbank portrays Gina Vitagliano, twenty years younger, an unlucky heroine and innocent bystander who demands verbal intimacy in the midst of a hailstorm of bullets. After switching between events and continents, Brockmann locks this unlikely couple in a free-fall guaranteed to soften even the toughest curmudgeons. K.A.T. © AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine [Published: DEC 05/ JAN 06]