Book Review: The Power Of Two

Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner

The Power Of Two     Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB
Patti O'Shea
Class/Genre:   Science Fiction   Romance   Military
Series: 2176 # 4
Love Spell, Nov 2004, $6.99

In 2176, Cai works for the United Colonies of Earth Army Special Forces and has since her parents vanished when she was a teen. She works from an office while her field partner Captain Jake Tucker carries out the mission. They communicate through telepathy using nanoprobes in the brain. The pair has never met and Jake assumes his cohort is a computer.

However, Jake’s notion of his teammate changes when Cai comes out of the “shadows”, enters a bar and uses telepathy to prove she knows him “intimately”. She pleads with him to take her along on his next assignment, the capture of Banzai Maguire because Cai feels the legendary woman can provide her insight into what happened to her parents. Jake wants to refuse because he fears taking a “civilian” into a scenario, but reluctantly agrees. As they work together in person for the first time, both feel the fire between them, but the objective remains the capture of the legend Banzai before pursuing that attraction.

The fourth entry in the futuristic romantic science fiction thriller is a terrific entry as nano-technologies are introduced that seem genuine. They pump up the authenticity of the exciting story line. Cai is a fabulous protagonist and Jake is a strong soldier; this duo manages to take their cyber-distant partnership into a blood and guts teaming on two levels: personal and professional. The chase for the woman who started the miniseries Banzai adds a continuity so that fans obtain a winner that can stand alone or enhance the late twenty-first run.

Harriet Klausner

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