A review by melodytime
Phantom in the Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon
4.0
After reading Kenyon's Dark Hunter series and League series, this book was much more mainstream. The Bureau of American Defense (B.A.D.) is a super-secret organization that, if things went to hell in a hand basket, the American government wouldn't acknowledge. Their job is to assess and take out the most serious threats. Two years ago, a tiny village in South Africa was wiped out with what appeared to be a biological weapon. Nathan Drake was on a special operations mission to investigate. But his brother was framed in a drug bust and Nathan went AWOL to go home to help.
Two years later, while Jamie Drake is in jail, Nathan gets mixed in with the same crowd and is murdered. But it's not really Nathan because he took Jamie's place in prison. Now released, Nathan is determined to avenge his brother's murder. Terri Mitchell is a former DEA agent who nearly lost her life when she and her partner were ambushed and her partner was killed. Recruited into BAD while she was still in the hospital, Terri is working as a consultant with the NOPD in a BAD mission, and is investigating a shipping container that not only contained drugs, but perhaps something more sinister. The two continually cross paths, and though attracted, each has difficulty trusting the other. But soon it becomes obvious that a drug lord is the least of their worries as they try to determine the truth of what is really going on.
Two years later, while Jamie Drake is in jail, Nathan gets mixed in with the same crowd and is murdered. But it's not really Nathan because he took Jamie's place in prison. Now released, Nathan is determined to avenge his brother's murder. Terri Mitchell is a former DEA agent who nearly lost her life when she and her partner were ambushed and her partner was killed. Recruited into BAD while she was still in the hospital, Terri is working as a consultant with the NOPD in a BAD mission, and is investigating a shipping container that not only contained drugs, but perhaps something more sinister. The two continually cross paths, and though attracted, each has difficulty trusting the other. But soon it becomes obvious that a drug lord is the least of their worries as they try to determine the truth of what is really going on.