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- Body Double
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- Author: Vicki Hinze
- Reviewer: Mindy Phillips Lawrence
- Publisher: Silhouette Bombshell
- Format: Adult, Fiction, Paperback, 304 Pages, 2004
- ISBN: 0373513267
- Rating: * * * * Quills
- www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/0373513267/scriquil
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- Vicki Hinze is a conscientious, exciting writer. In Body Double, the first book in her War Games series, Air Force Captain Amanda West, a former CIA operative and current U.S. Air Force paramilitary S.A.S.S. (Secret Assignment Security Specialist), is in peril. She is buried in a vault in the Middle East and wakes up in the United States after being kept alive by IV injection. Three months of her life have been replaced by emptiness. Portions of her memory have been stolen in a plot to use as fodder for her kidnapper's cause. She teams up with investigator Captain Mark Ross, who also has sections of his memory wiped away, in order to bring the perpetrators to justice.
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- Hinze's story is realistically based on the thoughts she had as the U.S. military sought the true Saddam among a myriad of clones. It is this information she draws on in having Amanda West discover a number of agents who have been turned into doubles and programmed for nefarious uses by GRID (Group Resources for Individual Development). Amanda seeks answers to the number of doubles, who they are, where they are and how they were created. In the mix, she allows herself to become intimate with Captain Ross. But is it Ross or his clone she is with that night?
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- Amanda's life is marred by flashbacks of the abuse she suffered as a child at her father’s hand. She has trouble trusting anyone, especially males, which adds to her danger to others as a paramilitary agent and the danger to herself at the hands of a memory thief who can manipulate her fears. The intricate plot further includes the enemy's knowledge of her abuse and Amanda's knowledge that GRID leader Thomas Kunz was also an abused child. The two take different roads in dealing with their past. Amanda fights for her ideals and the security of the country, Kunz for utter control.
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- Hinze keeps her story moving. Although Amanda is seldom out of trouble, she is one of the strongest female characters that has come along in some time. The plot and subplot mesh well, and Hinze keeps the acronyms simple, explaining them clearly in the beginning.
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- If you intend to read this book, first take care of personal business, get your drink and find a comfortable chair. You won't be getting up until you are finished.
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