It's been a while since I've read a Linda Howard book, most of the ones I've read were from the '90s- early '00s. Reading this book reminded so much of Demi Moore's G.I. Jane movie back in '97. Jina is a computer geek, she works communications for a paramilitary organization. When her boss grabs her and a few others like her and tells them he has a special job for them working with the GO-Teams and they can either go along with their new jobs or quit. Jina doesn't know the meaning of the word quit, she is determined that no matter how hard they push her she won't quit. The team she gets assigned to decides to take a hands on approach to her training, as the only female of the new recruits they are determined to push her harder than the others. They basically put her through boot camp/CRT (combat ready training) mixed all into one. The hard they push the harder she tries and everyday she earns their respect more and more. Levi the team leader personally wouldn't mind if Jina quit, because that means he could ask her out. Levi the one who nicknamed her Babe, doubted her abilities, she was after all just a computer geek the boss was forcing on them. Her job is to control the drone as their eye in the sky and keep a lookout in combat situations but to go into combat she has to be trained. Jina pushes herself harder than she ever has before and even when it scares her shitless she gets up and does it again.
Jina's training takes up about half the book, she finishes her training a couple weeks before the other recruits. Meanwhile a powerful Congresswoman who has it out for Jina's boss set into motion a trap to destroy the organization starting with taking out one of his teams. Levi and his team just happen to be the team sent out into the ambush, luckily Jina and her drone are in place and spot the ambush but unfortunately it's not enough and now the team has left to the rendezvous thinking Jina didn't make it, now she has to find her way to the pick up location or risk being stuck in Syria with no way home. Levi is torn he knows he has to put the lives of his men first, but the thought of leaving Jina even though he thinks she's already dead doesn't sit well with him and once he gets his men on the chopper he's going back for her.
The sexual tension between Levi and Jina is great, they think they are being subtle about it but some of the other guys on the team already guessed it. The entire time Jina is training you see the comradery build with her and the team, it goes from open hostility to grudging respect to treating her like a little sister. I loved this book Jina is my girl crush, she is my hero very GI Jane and Levi much like Viggo's Master Chief you want to hate him for everything he puts her through but really she wouldn't have been as good as she ended up being if he and the others didn't push her that hard. The respect and admiration between the two of them is pretty constant throughout the book even when he's pushing her he respects the fact that she keeps pushing back. This book is a definite keeper.
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