Perfect Weapon

March 1, 2006
Dr. Sydney Hale charms a marine guard into letting her go outside her deeply buried, government-financed laboratory for some fresh air, not realizing that her lab is about to be attacked by terrorists who are after her top-secret antidote to deadly sarin nerve gas. In the attack, four marine buddies on leave to help thin the local deer population for Fish and Game get caught in the cross fire. The only survivor, Captain Jack Wilson, vows to get the guys who did this, and after eavesdropping on NSA agents, realizes that Sydney Hale is the key. The NSA whisks her off to a safe house, but Jack kidnaps her and they team up to get the bad guys, with the security of the United States hanging in the balance. This is more thriller than romance, but Sydney does fall for Jack, and Fetzer provides a one-sitting, nonstop, thoroughly enjoyable read.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2006, American Library Association.)