From Publishers Weekly
Sassy Jersey Barnes, Ocean's Southern-styled answer to Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum, believes her work for an antiterrorism tentacle of the government is over in her uneven second outing (after 2007's
Southern Fatality). Then her former military handler shows up at the bar she owns in Wilmington, N.C., and informs her of one more assignment. Jersey agrees to go undercover at a mobile meal truck outside the nation's largest ammunition port, nearby army-owned Military Ocean Terminal Sunny Point, and gather intel. Soon Jersey is tangling with John Mason, a fanatic who's planning a terrorist act to punish the U.S. for his twin brother's death. In the meantime, the daughter of Jersey's hunky love interest, Duke Ox Oxendine, becomes the face for a hot new teen product, Derma-Zing (faux tattoos). While the terrorist business comes off as a little stale, the subplot involving tainted cosmetics is fresh. Jersey's relationship with Ox adds some heat.
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In the second entry in her series (after Southern Fatality, 2007), Ocean once again puts her relentless protagonist in mortal danger while delving into her personal and professional lives and ramping up the local color. Recruited out of retirement and back into service by the secret government unit she joined after a stint as a Marine MP, Jersey is tasked to gather intelligence on a suspected terrorist threat to the Sunny Point ammunition post just south of Wilmington, North Carolina, where she co-owns a security agency and a bar. Thwarting the plot puts Jersey squarely in the sights of its avenging instigator, and at the same time, she has uncovered a crazed scientist’s plan for solving the population problem (a scheme that strikes painfully close to home). Smart and sassy Jersey continues to improvise and trust her unfailing intuition in this lively series. Body counts aside, Jesse’s oft-expressed love for her adopted town (and Ocean’s ability to evoke her setting) ought to please the Wilmington Chamber of Commerce. --Michele Leber
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