This is more of an action book than a thriller, I enjoyed it but it's not my favourite genre ( )

Safe from Harm – A Spectacular Debut Thriller

Safe from Harm is the spectacular debut thriller from secretive writing duo (I think) RJ Bailey who have created a female hero in the mode of Jack Reacher that Tom Cruise cannot ruin. This is a well written, well thought out thriller that grabs you from the beginning and keeps hold of you all the way through and have already laid the hook for the next in the series.

Sam Wylde is a Close Protection Officer, an enhanced personal body guard to us peasants, to the rich and the powerful and when we are introduced to her she is in the process of protecting a politician on a flight out of Heathrow. It is here that she learns that her husband has been murdered by terrorists and she withdraws from the only job she knows to take care of her daughter.

When she finally decides to get her life back together once again she is going back to what she knows, protection work and goes to work for a firm on The Circuit and has two job interviews, one with a Russian family and the other with a Pakistani family. She ends up having to audition for the job with the Russian and must fight, even if she wins she is not happy.

The daughter of the Pakistani businessman connects with Sam and so she works for the family, and that is when her problems really begin. After not working for nearly two years she is a little rusty and does not pick up things as quickly as she once did, when she is saved by people from the Security Services and asked to assist them watching the family.

It is while minding the family she discovers a few truths possibly that shake her confidence in people around her and that she is going to have to fight to the death if she is to survive. While life is throwing her a lot of lemons and she is making a lot of lemonade she is also having to roll with the punches, but whether she can cope with the ultimate betrayal we will see.

This really is a gripping and claustrophobic thriller that leaves you guessing as to what will happen next and what a way to introduce a new exciting character in Sam Wylde. One thing is for sure she is kicking ass and taking names, proving that women can be physical as well as cerebral and book readers have a new heroine, and she is so welcome. ( )