I felt it was particularly strong at the beginning, as the heroine tried to get out of Trinidad, providing an excellent demonstration of Jet’s abilities. Jet just doesn’t feel like a person who needs anyone else, and Stone’s handle on the action – which is plentiful – is good enough that any thing else feels like an unwanted distraction. As an action fan, who tends to roll his eyes whenever romance crops up, I’m leaning towards the latter. I think their relationship either needed to be depicted in considerably more nuanced depth, or considerably less. It’s hard to be specific without spoilers for “that” revelation, but if he loved Jet as much as some things imply, why did he not quit his job and go be with her when she pulled her vanishing act? This question is somewhat addressed, but the argument, little more than “He’d taken an oath”, falls a long way short of being convincing. If the book has a weakness, it’s likely David, whose actions don’t appear to be consistent with each other. As well as her being an unstoppable bad-ass, of course. This is apparent both in the fractured timeline, and in particular, the revelation at the end of the book, which clearly sets up Jet’s direction for the next volume. Still, I guess that’s one of the fun things about writing a novel: you don’t have a production budget! While this aspect feels reminiscent of a Bond book, I think Kill Bill is perhaps a greater inspiration here. And that’s not even including any globe-trotting in the flashbacks to her time as a Mossad agent. Carla restore the balance?įinding the answers apparently requires her to rack up the air miles, as the resulting narrative goes from Trinidad through Venezuela to Israel, then back via Cyprus to Belize, before finishing off in Monaco. The questions are: what happened, who is responsible, and how can Maya a.k.a. That came to a sudden end when assassins make an attempt to terminate her new identity. But eventually, it all became too much: with David’s assistance, Jet faked her own death on a mission and vanished off the grid, re-appearing as “Carla” in Trinidad, where she enjoyed a quiet life for several years. The secrecy wasn’t limited to her work, as she carried on an unsanctioned relationship with David, the man in charge of the group. There, she and her colleagues had carried out thoroughly deniable operations against… well, supposedly Israel’s enemies, though it’s not as if she asks questions. Born as Maya, the heroine here adopted the name of “Jet” when she became part of a seriously black ops group, part of the Israeli intelligence service known as the Mossad.
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