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Into the Fire (Troubleshooters, Book 13) | 
| Author: Suzanne Brockmann
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  64 reviews
Sales Rank: 26435
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 496
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 6.2 x 1.7
ISBN: 0345501535
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780345501530
ASIN: 0345501535
Publication Date: July 22, 2008
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Product Description
Suspense doesn’t burn any brighter and desire doesn’t run any deeper than when Suzanne Brockmann takes the helm, opens the throttle, and takes readers along for a breathless ride as she breaks the thrill barrier–again and again. With Into the Fire, Brockmann lights the fuse on her most explosive story yet.
Vinh Murphy–ex-Marine and onetime operative for the elite security firm Troubleshooters Incorporated–has been MIA ever since his wife, Angelina, was caught in a crossfire and killed during what should have been a routine bodyguard assignment. Overcome with grief, Murphy blames the neo-Nazi group known as the Freedom Network for her death. Now, years later, Freedom Network leader Tim Ebersole has been murdered–and the FBI suspects Murphy may have pulled the trigger. To prevent further bloodshed, Murphy’s friends at Troubleshooters scramble to find him and convince him to surrender peacefully.
Murphy himself can’t be sure what he did or didn’t do during the years he spent mourning and lost in an alcohol-induced fog. He does know he occasionally sought solace from Hannah Whitfield, a former police officer and the very friend who’d introduced him to his beloved late wife.
But Hannah, still grappling with the deafness that resulted from an injury sustained while on duty, was fighting her own battles. For years Hannah had feelings for Murphy, and one painful night their suffering brought them together in a way neither expected–and both regretted.
Murphy is ready to rejoin the living. As always, he finds himself knocking on Hannah’s door, and as always, his longtime friend welcomes him back into her home. Yet even as Murphy slowly rebuilds his splintered life, he continues to fight his growing feelings for Hannah.
Then he learns of Ebersole’s murder and comes to believe that the Freedom Network has targeted him–and Hannah–to avenge their leader’s death to violence. Now Murphy must face the terrifying prospect of losing another woman he loves.
As the Troubleshooters desperately search for him, Murphy races toward a deadly confrontation with the Freedom Network and ultimate choice: surrender his life in hopes that Hannah will be spared, or risk everything to salvage whatever future they may have together.
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 Brockmann keeps getting worse November 15, 2008
Reader
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I enjoyed Brockmann's earlier books, but she doesn't seem to be growing as a writer. She's not getting better, she's getting worse. Why do all her characters over act? And the dialogue is too over the top and unrealisitc. I've never heard anyone speak like they do. These characters are clones from other books, not original. And this military plot is getting boring. I rented the audiobook from the library. The male reader, Patrick Girard Lawtor, is not a good reader. He's the worst I've ever heard. I don't recommend this book or this author.
So-so Adventure November 5, 2008
Roberta S. Lipka (Ocala, FL)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This latest of Suzanne Brockman's Troubleshooters adventure is heavy on the romance, light on the adventure.
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Good read. Troubleshooters number thirteen. October 21, 2008
Detra Fitch (USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Vinh Murphy (from title HOT TARGET) returns and he is not doing well at all. The former Troubleshooter has been dealing with booze, blackouts, and just slumming from place-to-place since his wife, Angelina, died. Vinh blames the Freedom Network and its leader, Tim Ebersole, for her death and has loudly claimed that he would kill the man. Every few months he shows up at the door of Hannah Whitfield, a long time friend of his and Angelina's. Hannah allows him to clean up, eat, and get some sleep. This time Hannah and Vinh end up in bed together only for him to disappear before the night is even over.
When Tim Ebersole is murdered, the guys at Troubleshooter's Incorporated begin looking for him. Hannah goes to them for help locating Vinh as well because she knows Vinh is seriously suicidal lately.
Izzy Zanella is with SEAL Team Sixteen. He gets along great with all his team members except one, Danny Gillman. As Lady Fate would have it, Eden, Dan's little sister, shows up looking for Dan who is nowhere to be found. Izzy helps Eden out only for Dan to show up the next day with a major attitude. Though Dan obviously believes Izzy and Eden had been to bed together, they pair did not bother correcting his assumption. After all, the pair did get to third base. About six months later Dan shows up at Izzy's door saying that Eden is pregnant with his child. Knowing he is not the father, but refusing to discuss it with Danny's hot temper blazing, they go to Vegas. Eden has been slapped hard by her stepfather and imprisoned in a room with no place to sit, no food, and no water. Seeing this, Izzy no longer cares that he is not the biological father of the baby. He rescues Eden from her stepfather and Danny. In a few days, they plan to wed. But first, Izzy and the team must deal with a situation brought to their attention from Troubleshooter's Incorporation.
**** This is like reading two tales in one, but about half into the book the two stories begin to merge. I admit to enjoying Izzy and Eden's story a lot more than Vinh and Hannah's though. However, fans of the Troubleshooter series will be very happy with this installment to the series. Danger does not lurk around every corner, but the story has its fair share. Another outstanding piece of work! ****
Reviewed by Detra Fitch of Huntress Reviews.
Good story just not between the H/H October 17, 2008
Book-Lover
I love Suzanne Brockmann but I gotta say that this book fell a little short of expectation. The H/H characters for me were just not interesting enough and didn't have enough depth or chemistry.
I wasn't really interested in a story for Vinh Murphy and maybe SB just wasn't feeling it too much either. I was WAAAAY more interested in the story that developed between Eden and Izzy. I've always had a thing for crazy Izzy and I'm finally glad he got some credit with someone who had a character instead the office slut Tracy he had a thing with in the last story. I just really can't see an Izzy/Tracy relationship and I hope SB doesn't take it in that direction in the future because of the huge cliffhanger at the end of this book.
So I give this book 4 stars based on the fact that SB doesnt fail to deliver on the suspence, action, and romance (even though, in my opinion, it wasn't between the H/H advertised on the inside flap).
 Into the Fire October 5, 2008
Ann Heron (Edgartown, MA United States)
# 13 is ideed a winner! Brockmann, just keeps getting better. Her characters are stronger than ever and it is wonderful to hear from old friends/characters as they are woven back into this novel. The compelling story line is indicative of significant research as the plot ties into world events & her sub plots keep me asking for more! (When is Izzy's & Eden's story going to continue...?) Like with a Nora Robert's novel, I start to get anxious as the book nears the end, as I really don't want the tale to be finished! (Brockmann's use of the epilogue helps.) I highly recommend this novel for contemporary mystery fans w/an underlay of romance.
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