Scorpion

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Summary: The Caribbean Winds Blow on the Heels of the Assassin
Review: Prime Minister Ramsingh of Trinidad has committed himself to the task of stamping out the cocaine trade in his small island nation and the Salizar drug cartel has committed themselves to stamping out Prime Minister Ramsingh. Trinidad is important to them as they use the Caribbean country to disguise and reship their dangerous white powder into the United States.

DEA agent Bill Broxton has been given the difficult assignment of protecting the Prime Minister, a job made more difficult because Ramsingh doesn't want American protection. He believes George Chandee, his own attorney general, is capable of protecting him, however what he doesn't know is that Chandee wants his job and is working with the drug cartel.

Dani Street, the American Ambassador's daughter, is the assassin known as the Scorpion and she has been hired by Chandee and the Salizar drug barons to kill Ramsingh. She is also the reason Broxton has accepted the assignment of protecting the prime minister. He is in love with her. Of course he doesn't know about her little sideline.

And there you have the main characters and the beginning of a thriller that took me completely by surprise. I don't know what I expected when a friend loaned me this book, but I certainly didn't expect to lose a whole Sunday. No church, no brunch, no tennis, just several cups of coffee and one terrific story. I was caught up in another world, a place where the Caribbean winds blow all year long and nothing is as it seems.

Ms. Mindy Adams

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Summary: Deadly Bad Guys, Thrills, Chills and a Scorpion
Review: SCORPION is a stay up all night thriller that moves from Trinidad in the Southern Caribbean to South Texas, to Venezuela and back to Trinidad and you can feel the heat and humidity of those places as you read. Mr. Stewart puts you right into the action as you move through the pages, so when you join DEA agent Bill Broxton as he tries to stop an assassin, be prepared for some serious escape time.

DEA agent Bill Broxton has been assigned to protect the Prime Minister of Trinidad from the Scorpion, an assassin hired by the Salizar drug cartel, because his girlfriend Dani, who he soon hopes to make his bride, is the daughter of the American Ambassador. It's because Broxton is so close to the ambassador that makes him perfect for the assignment, as the Prime Minister has refused American help, instead turning to his own Justice Minister for security.

So Broxton is supposed to use his connection with ambassador to get close to the PM, however Dani isn't as pure as the driven snow. Broxton may be carrying a torch in his heart and a ring in his pocket, but she's been carrying an assassin's guns and playing the field. She is the Scorpion who has been hired to take out Broxton's charge. And who is she working for? None other than the justice minister in charge of keeping the P.M. safe.

SCORPION has it all, foreign intrigue, deadly bad guys, a good guy in over his head, romance, terrific chase scenes and best of all, an ending you'll never see coming. I couldn't put this one down and I don't think you will be able to either.

Reviewed by Stephanie Sane

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Summary: The Girl of His Dreams is a Scorpion
Review: The Scorpion has been contracted to kill the Prime Minister of Trinidad. DEA agent Bill Broxton has been assigned to protect him. Dani Street is the daughter of the American Ambassador. Broxton is in love with her, but what he doesn't know is that she is the Scorpion. Can he save the prime minister from the woman he wants to marry?

Everybody is always trying to kill the President of the United States. You know what I mean, there must be hundreds, if not thousands of books out there where someone is trying to assassinate the prez. The fate of the free world hangs in the balance while, Dirk Pitt, James Bond or Jack Ryan race fate, bullets and bombs to save the big guy before he becomes toast. And while Messrs. Cussler, Fleming and Clancy, masters of their craft to be sure, write wonderful books, it was refreshing to read a thriller that swept me away to the kind of places you only think about when you see the posters on your travel agent's walls, refreshing for me and I think it'll be refreshing for you.

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Summary: Don't Read this Book on a Plane
Review: This book opens with the most harrowing chapter I have ever read. Our main two characters are in a plane, a bomb has gone off, the oxygen masks have fallen. People are scared. I felt it. My spine tingled. My palms got sweaty. By the end of that chapter I was so into the characters that there was no way I was gonna put the book down. There's no way I'm getting on an airplane for a long time either.

DEA agent Bill Broxton is going to Trinidad to propose to the girl of his dreams. He is also on assignment. His job, protect the Prime Minister of that island nation from an international assassin, called the Scorpion, who is, though he doesn't know it, the girl of his dreams. And if you don't think that makes for interesting reading. Think again. I loved this book, read it in one sitting, and I'm going out tomorrow for "Hurricane," so that I can get still another dose of Broxton and his adventures. Give Jack Stewart a read, you won't be disappointed.

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Summary: Non-Stop, Shoot-Em-Up, Sea Going Thriller
Review: This is a quick read that really gets your pulse rate going. DEA Bill Broxton is on a mission to guard the Prime Minister of Trinidad as the man tries to route out the drug dealers in his country. And one of the people he has to protect him from is an assassin called the Scorpion, who also happens to be the daughter of the American Ambassador and the woman Broxton wants to marry. Of course, our hero doesn't know the assassin he's hunting is the girl he loves.

And there you have the basic plot of this non-stop, shoot-em-up, sea going thriller. I liked the characters, especially Dani the assassin. Usually writers give these kinds of jobs to cynically dedicated males, so to find a girl killer I could sink my teeth into made this book especially enjoyable for me. I also liked the budding romance between Broxton and Maria, the flight attendant gal with the bad cop husband, but I'll admit that I was a bit surprised to see that she doesn't show up in "Hurricane", Mr. Stewart's next thriller. I sort of thought they'd hit it off, so now I'm wondering if Broxton is going to have a different lady in every story. That aside, I really liked this book that is full of action and suspense and I think you will like it too.