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A.K.A. Jane

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For the past seven years, Jane Nichols, a counter-terrorist assigned to Britain's MI5 team, dreams of avenging the death of her lover and partner, who died during a botched operation. Now Jane is retiring to pursue her obsession: getting even by killing Jim O'Neil, the IRA agent who destroyed her life seven years ago.

She moves to Savannah, Georgia and adopts one of her alter-egos, Max Murdoch, author of a detective series. Her seemingly simple project is quickly compounded by the fact that Jim has just been voted the Georgia businessman of the year and is widely respected throughout the state. Jane decides to look closely at her nemesis's business. She partners with her former British MI5 mates, their American counterparts, and the Savannah chief of police, handsome Alex Callaghan, who raises once dead feelings of passion in the deadly assassin. Still Jane continues to investigate even as she knows that as she gets closer to the truth about her arch-enemy, she steps ever closer to death.

AKA JANE introduces a very interesting new protagonist, who as she allegedly has come in from the cold, still uses the skills she has gained over the years. Jane will quickly gain a large fan appreciation. The story line is straight forward with very few twists and turns, but surprisingly that adds to the overall fun of an exciting spy-like thriller.

Harriet Klausner

Jane Nichols is an absolutely electrifying character. She is a woman of steel, a key operative of the MI-5, a woman James-Bond. Fearless, tough, no-nonsense, take-charge, knows how to get what she wants, Jane is simply awesome!

Jane's soft side shows in her personal life. Her first sexual encounter with Alex is so devastating sexy in which she had been making love to her memory with Brian. That Alex had merely provided the necessary body. The haunting of the violent death of her parent and her lover, Brian, giving her bad dreams. All these showed Jane is a human and has feeling too, despite the fact that she can be a lethal fighting machine.

Jane Nichols is my heroine!

Even after I read the cover text I expected this to be something like "Murder, she wrote" or "Scarescrow & Mrs. King". But it's actually a very good thriller with a surprisingly convincing heroine. Of course, there has to be some romance. Obviously, it can't be helped. But the relationship between Jane and her lover, Savannah's police chief, is at least mildly interesting. But Tan and Jane Nichols are at their best when it comes to action, plotting and deceiving. I really hope that Jane Nichols won't retire to soon. This series could be a winner.

I'm a huge mystery/thriller reader, and I really enjoyed this book. The plot moves along at high speed, the action is fast and furious, and the atmosphere Ms. Tan creates for her characters rang true. I found my affection for the main character growing as the book unfolded, which caused me to finish this book in a day and immediately begin reading the second book in this series. I hope there will be more to look forward to from Maureen Tan!

A K A Jane is a pretty good British female secret agent type novel. It is not the best of the genre out there but is a very enjoyable read. Jane Nichols wants to retire from her life as a secret agent after coming off a mission that has taken its tole mentally and physically. As well as being a secret agent she's also a very successful author under the pen name Max Murdock and decides she will concentrate the rest of her life on pumping out more novels about her successful character Andrew Jax. First things first though she must avenge the death of her lover a fellow spy, by killing terrorist Jim O'Neil. He is currently in Savannah, USA, which she also decides is a good place to base her next Jax novel from. She rents a room from police chief Alex Callaghan who is on the case of a serial killer who likes to strangle beautiful women. Jane herself is a beautiful woman and not knowing she is an M I-5 agent, Alex is constantly worried about her. Meanwhile the British want her back at work and to find out what terrorist O'Neil is up to. She however has not intention of returning to her former life and just wants him dead.

This is a very enjoyable read but there are better female British government agent novels out there. The best would be by author Christopher Nicole, with his Jessica Jones character. Titles such as The Voyage, The Search, The Pursuit and Poor Darling are just a few to look for.

Mystery,adventure,fun,and many suprises. I recommand this to any person who love a brave heroine who is not unlike a female James Bond with a conscience and had loved and lost.

I read the review for this book over the computer, thought, "why not?" and purchased it, fully prepared to yawn my way through it. Not a yawn passed my lips, as I was riveted to the book. I found it enthralling, amusing, sensitive, scary, and all-round enjoyable.

I look forward to reading the next book about Jane - just to see what happens!

I just finished reading AKA Jane and boy, what a great book! I can't wait to see where Maureen Tan takes Jane. Parts of this book remind me of the Deighton series of books (Game/Set/Match, etc.) and parts remind me of characters like Stephanie Plum and Sharon McCone.

This book is a cross between a stiff British espionage story and a modern strong female protagonist story.

A wonderful book - highly recommended!

This was an enjoyable book. I liked the heroine and I thought the pace and plot were both excellent. It was fun seeing Jane shift scenes from Ireland to Louisiana. Go Jane!

It was so difficult to put this book down that I ended up reading through the night. It was a true delight to finally read a book that was'nt "Cheesy", but actually had a plot. Thank You Ms. Tan for finally giving us a book that I not only enjoy but truly am looking foward to a sequel!