Above the Law
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
DEA Agent Dale Nelson paid the ultimate price for her service when her wife was killed by drug dealers. Now she’s assigned to a task force investigating the suspects and she doesn’t need the distraction of the beautiful but infuriating reporter, Lindsey Ryan. Despite her initial resistance, Dale discovers that Lindsey is as talented and capable as she is attractive. Will she get a second shot at love, or will the peril of her job rob her of the chance at happiness again?
Investigative reporter Lindsey Ryan will do whatever it takes to get the truth. As a favor, she agrees to anchor what is supposed to be a puff piece on the DEA. However, despite the reluctance of the striking Agent Nelson to share any information, Lindsey learns power and politics are at play, and exposing the truth could not only be dangerous, but could jeopardize her chance at love.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Continuing the procedural thriller plot from 2015's Lay Down the Law, Taite sticks to the approach of minimal romance, moderate lust and angst, and maximum corruption. Dallas, Tex., DEA special agent Dale Nelson came home one day to find her wife gunned down on their front lawn. Maria Escobar had been a prosecutor deeply committed to bringing down the drug cartels operating in her Texas jurisdiction. A year later, Dale carries on that work from the enforcement side, making her job her life. Political machinations higher up the chain cause her task force to be dismantled just as investigative reporter Lindsey Ryan comes on the scene she's been demoted and assigned to film a puff piece on a DEA outreach program, because of one too many humiliating takedowns of powerful people who complained to Lindsey's bosses. When Dale is assigned to be Lindsey's agency liaison, the scene is set for Dale's official investigation to go off the books and Lindsey's PR exercise to go off the rails. There's not a lot of time spent making the unlikely pairing of gritty cop and hotheaded journalist plausible, and the dialogue-heavy story makes the setting feel more like the New York City of Law & Order than Dallas, but readers who enjoyed the first installment will find this a worthy second act.
