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Storm Front

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Catherine Phillips has agreed to give up piloting planes in order to head up her company's security division. Unfortunately, she no sooner has her staff in place than the airline is targeted by a terrorist organization. The description of the head of the terrorists and how he functions doesn't even thinly disguise the fact that Reilly has Osama Bin Laden in mind. Phillips has to find a way to stop this man from killing people and her partner Rebecca is ready to help her. They get themselves involved in some pretty unrealistic situations, but this is a novel and it makes for great reading. If you've read the previous two books involving Kate and Rebecca, you'll see their relationship develop even further. This book is one that is hard to put down.

This final installment of Belle Reilly's Orbis Airlines series is a significant departure from the first two books. It touches lightly on the deepening relationship between flight attendant Rebecca Hanson and pilot Captain Catherine Phillips, but mostly focuses on capturing a terrorist cell that has targeted Orbis.

The basic premise is the terrorists bomb a plane with plastique explosive. Catherine is in charge of the task force assigned to investigate, and Becky insists on coming along to help. They follow all angles and eventually solve the case.

In this reader's opinion, the book is too little romance mixed with too much action/mystery. It doesn't focus on the main characters, as is Reilly's usual style. However, with the addition of the crash investigation, the story has much more meat and depth than the first two books in the series. Depending on what you like, this will either be a big winner or a big loser for most readers. It's the conclusion of a fairly good series, so I recommend `Storm Front' mainly to bring closure to the story of Kate and Becky.

The author wrote this work some time before
9/11 Terrorist attack. Even then, her well researched
characters had a very thin veil between Osama Bin Laden
and what the rest of the World now knows. Some of us were
following these events prior to 9/11.
I read this book as I had been given copies of the Authors'
prior works and enjoyed them. Read it the weekend of Sept
15 and 16 Sept 2001. It was just here. And timly, I might
add... Kat.