Flash of Fury

Starred review from February 1, 2017
In the first in Griffith's Endgame Ops series, Kingston McNally, ex-SEAL and the leader of this Special Ops off-the-books group, meets Allie Redding as his seatmate on a hijacked plane out of Cameroon. Back on the ground, they are led on a wild and dangerous chase to escape the men trying to abduct her to get to her CIA director father, to whom King promises to get her home safely. This turns out to be easier said than done, given the brutality of her foe, Vasily Savidge. The worse things get, the more hopelessly King falls in love with Allie, not only for her beauty but also because of her courage and grit, both of which she uses in spades to help him, no matter how unworthy he feels. Griffith's military romance has all the elements readers treasure: a larger-than-life badass warrior, a woman to match him, and action galore. Besides being a great read with the promise of more Endgame stories, the book has a wonderfully fulfilling ending. Readers of Maya Banks' KGI and Cindy Girard's Black Ops International series will love this.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2017, American Library Association.)