Book Review: Acts of Honor

Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner

Acts of Honor     Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB
Vicki Hinze
Class/Genre:   Military   Mystery
St. Martin’s, Dec 1999, $5.99, 384 pp.

For five long years, Dr. Sara West has tried to learn why her brother-in-law Captain David Quade killed himself because her sister and niece still need closure. Now, the prime person who impeded her efforts to attain the truth, Air Force Colonel Jack Foster arrogantly sits in her office as if he owns the place. She wants the pompous SOB to leave until he offers her a deal that she cannot refuse.

Jack wants Sara to go undercover at the military Braxton Facility as a psychologist. He wants her to apply her unorthodox but highly successful expertise in post-traumatic stress disorder to one of his operatives residing there. Jack fears that the patient, a Shadow Watcher who knows top secret information, could harm this country. Sara knows that David was a Shadow Watcher too and will learn the truth why her intrepid brother-in-law killed himself inside that facility. Also inside Braxton lies a new technology that has caused death in the name of medical research and a love of a lifetime for Sara if she survives.

Very few authors do military tales quite as well as Vicki Hinze (see DUPLICITY and SHADES OF GREY). This time Ms. Hinze combines a military espionage thriller, a medical research tale, and romance into a fabulous suspense story. The story line never eases up as Sara goes through the same psychological warfare as her new Braxton patients have done.

Sara’s true love “Joe”, a patient in Braxton, is an intriguing individual with quite a history. The eccentric Jack is a weird protagonist who hopefully will gain his own story soon. Though advertised as romantic suspense, ACTS OF HONOR has cross appeal to readers of romance, espionage, and suspense as an entertaining thriller.

Harriet Klausner

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