Perfect Lie [Hardcover]

Dinah McCall (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Mira (2003)
• ISBN-10: 0739434411
• ISBN-13: 978-0739434413
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.6 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,694,920 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Another Strong Read From Ms. Mccall!, July 4, 2003

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Kristi Ahlers (Illinois) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Perfect Lie (Mass Market Paperback)

This is another strong read from a great author. Ms. Mccall delivers again with a strong hero and a great heroine.

Jonah Slade is an undercover CIA agent and he finds out that he has a son that is fifteen years old and that Evan has been kidnapped by a drug lord that has promised revenge for the death of his son. Jonah is floored when he finds out that he was lied to fifteen years earlier, and that he has been cheated yet again by the Blaine family. He will do all he can to save the son he didn't know he had even if it means that he gives himself up to Calderon the Columbian drug lord.

Macie Blaine has loved Jonah for years. Even when he was dating her older sister. She is torn in two when she finds out her sister has been killed, her father has been shot, and her nephew was abducted. She knows the only thing left to do is to track down Jonah and tell him the truth and to ask for help.

Jonah agrees to go back to California with Macie and finds himself not only worried about the safety of his son, but also finds himself attracted to Macie. She is everything her sister wasn't and more. She was kind, loving, and forgiving, and strong when she needed to be. Soon Jonah is totally in love with her and will do all he can to get his son back so he can start a family with Macie.

This was a fast paced read and although Macie is not one of her stronger characters she is still likable. The secondary character plus the added intrigue of who the mole in the organization is helps move the story along. This is really a great book to add to your summer reading list!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Perfect Read, May 8, 2003

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romance lover "teesgirls" (Dallas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Perfect Lie (Mass Market Paperback)

A book that is shocking, thrilling and spell binding. I loved this one. Not often anymore can I read a book that holds my attention the way this one did. I just couldn't put it down. If you like Suzanne Brockmann's seal team books, well you are going to love Dinah McCalls The Perfect Lie. It is on that level, with action, suspense and romance all rolled into one, I wish they had more books like this out there.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Action packed and full of suspense, May 4, 2006

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Tracy Vest (Northern California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Perfect Lie (Mass Market Paperback)

Pregnant and fearing that her father will cut her off, Felicity informs lover Jonah that she is having an abortion. He flees town believing that his child was aborted, while Felicity raises the child as a single mother. Her younger sister, Macie, who had a crush on Jonah always felt that Felicity's decision was wrong. She has maintained a close relationship with her nephew Evan for the last 15 years.

When Jonah learned that Felicity terminated their child, he had little to live for. He decided to live dangerously, and spent several years in deep cover in the DEA. His latest assignment resulted in the death of the son of drug kingpin Calderone. After witnessing Jonah kill his son Alejandro, Calderone vows an eye for an eye; a son for a son. Jonah is relieved about his solitary life with no children to worry about. But when Macie shows up at his door to inform him that Felicity did in fact bear him a son, she must also inform him that Felicity was brutally murdered, and Evan kidnapped.

Jonah must race the clock to locate the resourceful Evan from the evil drug runners. Along the way, his feelings for Macie start to develop, and though he tries to keep them in check, soon they start to fall in love.

McCall keeps the pacing brisk with lots of nail biting suspense, particularly with regard to the identity of the mole within in the DEA. You cannot help but want everything to work out for the trio.