If eyes had breath, they’d be gasping for it from start to finish in this book!. Leine Basso is a proper adrenalin junkie and takes her readers on a drama-filled, fast-action, speed-of-light-paced adventure. It’s absolutely exhausting!

Once an assassin, now an operative fighting the human-trafficking trade, Leine’s latest mission finds her vying with a former adversary. Trying to save young refugee children, abducted from a Libyan refugee camp for unthinkable purposes, she realises that to survive she has to return to using some of her old skills: which will help her, but also put her in fatal danger.

Gripping, fast-paced, explosive thrills are guaranteed with this sassy protagonist. Berkom is just brilliant and knows exactly how to get your heart in your mouth and keep it there for the duration. Book number 6 in the series and each one gets better and better.

And the best bit: Leine doesn't quite wrap it all up...there's a very dangerous loose thread. And unfinished business is not Leine’s style, is it? Which is fantastic news for her reading public, because, of course, it means there’s more to come!

WOO HOO! Another fabulous thriller featuring the gun toting former assassin Leine Basso. I love this strong, which is putting it mildly, female character. She is a former government assassin, now working with SHEN, an antitrafficking organization. She shows the scumbags of the world no mercy. I love that she has a trophy wall, even though it is a little serial killer creepy.

SHEN – Stop Human Enslavement Now

I think things are about to change for Leine, when she meets Jinn, a child of the Marketplace. She is like a ghost, one minute you see here, the next she’s gone. She is feisty, clever and Leine has her work cut out for her winning her trust. I have some feelings for Jinn and I wonder….

Slave auctions. Oh man, I hate to even think about this, especially because I know it goes on to this day. DV Berkom does her research, so her stories read all too real.

I love how, laying on her back, in her most DIRE STRAITS, Leine thinks of Carl Sagan saying, there were “billions and billions of stars in the galaxy.” I used to watch that show. It’s DV adding the small things that makes her books hit all my buttons, making me want more.

The Leopard has come out of her retirement and made her ‘DARK RETURN’ to her old life.

Hmmm…is Kadeem Hakim a good guy or a bad guy? DV Berkom’s not telling, at least, not yet.

Bullets and RPGs are flying, but Leine feels the need to save everyone. Guilt drives her to move heaven and earth to get those who dare to cross her line. If you think you can tell her no, think again. Leine enjoys meting out her own punishment to traffickers and terrorists. She is driven, she is aggressive, she is…

L – oyal

E – nterprising

I – ntense

N – ecessary

E – lusive

Every time she thought of her man, Santiago Jenson, and LAPD detective, she put aside that he fought within the law and she crossed the line, walking to the beat of her own drum. I love this characters so much, I just hope Santa can accept her as she is, not perfect, but definitely someone you want at your side during the bad times.

The intrigue and suspense unravel as the words splash across the pages. DV Berkom’s books are so intense and Dark Return only confirms for me the huge amount of work she puts into research, making the book read as if it is a true story. This page turning thriller is filled with nonstop action, characters that stole my heart and I love that I don’t know where I’m going until I get there. Not all will survive, but the journey is more than worth it.

I voluntarily reviewed a free copy of Dark Return by DV Berkom

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