The Jessica Project (Paperback)

by Thomas Farrell (Author)

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Product Description
Jesse Barrett, assassin-for-hire, is coerced by federal agents into making a terrible choice: go to prison, or help them seize billions of dollars of laundered drug profits while disguised as a woman. Seduced by a beautiful stranger, he wakes up in her hotel room to find himself dressed in a nightgown, with all his clothes and identification missing. Will Barrett cooperate with Kristin Fox, the special agent who trapped him? When Barrett reluctantly agrees, Kristin prepares him to go undercover against the Juarez cartel. Although she prefers women, Kristin becomes attracted to her creation, convincing herself that his transformation is the cause. While Barrett plots his escape, their relationship becomes physical. Until the mission goes dreadfully wrong…. As the action races across three continents to a stunning confrontation on the brink of Iguazu Falls, The Jessica Project explores the possibility that love might help a person reinvent himself or herself.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: PublishAmerica (August 12, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1591294592
• ISBN-13: 978-1591294597
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #959,042 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Jessica Project - a fast-paced thriller, December 2, 2002

By	T. Wicke (Glendale, CA USA) - See all my reviews

Read this book! Thomas Farell's well-plotted and fast-paced thriller seizes the reader. It surprises and it snaps your head like a sports car on a tight mountain road. Farrell thrusts his Special Forces marksman turned assassin, Jesse Barrett, into an impossible situation. He's stripped of his identity as part of a bizarre government plot to destroy the multi-billion dollar money-laundering network of a major Mexican drug cartel. His survival from the government agents who now control him and from his former employer, the deadly Don Cielo, depends upon his ingenuity, decisiveness, raw nerve and, unbelievably, his ability to pass as a woman.

Farrell writes in a lean, direct style. An observant world-traveler, he has a gift for penning the telling details that capture the feel of far-flung places with realism and economy.

Whether the battle of wills between Jesse and his DEA handler, Kristin Fox, will lead to the destruction of the cartel, of Jesse's gender identity or of the barriers between them or it will result in Jesse's death at the hands of the vengeful Don Cielo, is at the heart of the story. Farrell has created a cinematic tale, non-stop and compelling, that entertains and informs and is very hard to put down. I'm looking forward to the sequel.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Timeless Tales 5 stars review, September 14, 2003

By	"tteditor" (Washington DC) - See all my reviews

by Billie A Williams

THE JESSICA PROJECT proves the old adage that "not all things are as they seem." It begins with the transformation of the very masculine Jesse Barrett into a woman, at least externally. Kristin Fox, undercover FBI agent and friend of Barrett's ex-girl friend (Lisa Kozella) seduce and drug Barrett. Kozella and Fox turn Barrett's outward appearance into a beguiling female. The women leave him in a motel room with only feminine attire, miles from his home with no money or identification. He must become a woman to survive and get home, as it would not be wise for his employers to discover the very serious, well-respected Cartel head hit man dressed in drag.

This is only the beginning of the deceit Barrett must ascribe to in order to stay alive as he turns reluctant traitor to the Mexican Drug Cartel. Kristen Fox, self-proclaimed Lesbian, and Jesse Barrett, womanizer, play off each other's strengths and weaknesses with the precision of a Swiss watch. The skilled craftsman/author Thomas Farrell takes us on an ever-twisting roller coaster ride through The Jessica Project giving the reader little breathing room. Jesse/Jessica becomes the key player in the FBI's plan to entrap one of the king pins of the Mexican Drug Cartel. Jessica and Kristin dash from continent to continent, country to country staying one-step a head of the newly installed Cartel head hit man. We admire the creativity of Jesse/Jessica Barrett as he tries to stay alive and free. We admire the intenseness of the characters as they successfully deceive the reader and themselves as to their true identities.

The suspense is high, the action intense and the romance steamy. I highly recommend this page-turner novel that you will not easily put down until you read the final chapter, even then, the characters will linger. When you finish, you will wish there was more. This could easily become a serial with the strength of the two characters Jesse Barrett and Kristin Fox.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good but no feeling, May 26, 2004

By	Scott A. Misko (STONE MOUNTAIN, GEORGIA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is like a Grisham story; all action and no characterization. While the premise was good, the story was typical of this ink. Unfortunately, I couldn't feel for the main characters. Sure, Jesse had to wear women's clothes but the whole transitioning was just glossed over with very little in-depth thoughts. Nice for quick read but no substance.