Call to Honor

January 9, 2017
This flimsy second book of Weber’s SEAL Brotherhood series follows the ultraelite Poseidon team on a mission to a California suburb; why SEALs are undertaking a landlocked mission on U.S. soil is never explained. Diego Torres is tapped to lead Operation Hammerhead and retrieve a hostage while securing sensitive intelligence. When disaster strikes, he is forced to leave behind the body of a slain brother in arms. Harper Maclean is a single mom and interior decorator whose elegant life is interrupted by the news of her child’s father being killed in action on Operation Hammerhead. But when rumors spread that her ex is alive, Diego and his team infiltrate her neighborhood in search of answers. He compromises his principles to get close to Harper, becoming far more intimate than he intended. Weber creates an improbable adventure of low risk and strange, sometimes illegal choices by her protagonists, with a tense and frantic romance at its center. The SEALs on Diego’s team are the literary equivalent of a stripper peeling off a fake uniform, titillating but with no hint of military authenticity. The conclusion is typically heroic, and it is as unsatisfying as the romantic denouement.

January 1, 2017
In Weber's newest installment in her SEAL Brotherhood series (Night Maneuvers, 2016), members of the SEAL Poseidon team come under suspicion after a mission in which one of them is killed but no body is retrieved. SEAL Diego Torres, mission leader, is assigned to go undercover to get intel from Harper Maclean, the ex-wife of the missing man, who has not heard from him for seven years, since their son was born. He poses as her neighbor, but by the time Diego and his Poseidon comrades prove Harper's innocence, she and Diego are passionately in love. But then her son is abducted and Diego's deception has to be revealed. How they figure all this out, rescue Nathan, and save the relationship is the rest of the story, with enough loose ends for future books in the series. Diego personifies the honor and strength of a SEAL warrior in a good read with an engaging heroine and child. Reminiscent of Suzanne Brockmann's Troubleshooters series, Weber's latest will appeal to her fans as well as other military-romance readers.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2017, American Library Association.)