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description: The Tactical Crime Division—TCD—is a specialized unit of the
FBI.They handle the toughest cases in the most remote locations.When TCD
learns of a school invasion turned lockdown, every agent is ready to engage.
With children in jeopardy, the stakes couldn’t be higher. But it becomes
personal for hostage negotiator agent Evan Duran when he learns Annalise Taylor
is one of the captives holed up with the students in a school for the gifted.
He’ll need every resource available at TCD and every ounce of his expertise to
turn this disastrous situation into a rescue mission—and if he succeeds, maybe
reunite with the woman he never stopped loving.
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A new
miniseries from Harlequin Intrigue.
Stopping
criminal activity wherever it happens. The agents at the Tactical Crime
Division are ready for anything.
More and
more, federal law agencies have to mobilize to remote locations to address
large-scale crime scenes and criminal activity—terror, hostage situations,
kidnappings, shootings and the like. Because of the growing concerns and need
for ever increasing response times to these criminal events, the Bureau created
a specialized tech and tactical team, combining specialists from several active
divisions—weapons, crime scene investigation, protection, negotiation, IT.
Because they are a smaller unit, they are more nimble for rapid deployment and
assistance to address various situations. This joint team of agents is known as
the Tactical Crime Division (TCD).
CAST OF
CHARACTERS
Evan
Duran—Special Agent
Duran is a hostage negotiator for the Tactical Crime Division, a specialized
branch of the FBI.
Annalise
Taylor—A teacher
held hostage at a private school. She’s also Evan’s ex-lover. She’d broken his
heart several years before, and now he holds her life in his hands.
Jacob
Noble—Is he the
leader of a charitable church or the dangerous leader of a cult?
Gretchen
Noble—Jacob’s wife,
who is not afraid to abuse or kill. Will she kill Annalise before she can be
freed?
Hendrick
Maynard—Brilliant
tech agent for the Tactical Crime Division. Will he be able to get the
information Evan needs or will he be destroyed by old painful memories?
Walter
Cummings—Chief of
police in Asheville. Would his incompetence be the death of the hostages?
***
As
he drove he made a few phone calls, and he finally pulled up in front of the
nondescript brick building where TCD’s offices were located. He parked, got out
of his car and hurried inside. As he strode down the hallway toward the main
meeting room, he could hear Director Jill Pembrook apparently still conducting
the morning meeting.
The
main conference room was the heart of the office. It was where assignments were
handed out and situations were brainstormed. The agents sat at a long, highly
glossed wooden table. On one wall was an oversize FBI logo, and opposite that
was the TCD emblem. A large, digital flat screen was mounted on the far side of
the room, and a tablet lay at the head of the table.
Evan
burst through the door. Director Jill Pembrook looked at him in surprise.
“Agent Duran, how nice of you to join us on your day off.”
The
director was an attractive, stylish woman of substance with cropped steel gray
hair and a penchant for dark, custom-tailored suits.
She’d
been with the FBI for over forty years, andshe was definitely a force to be
reckoned with. Her blue eyes could be warm and friendly or they could frost a
puddle of water into a sheet of ice.
“I
just saw the news out of Pearson,” he stated. “I need to get there… It’s
Annalise.”
There
was a collective groan from some of the other agents. Evan ignored it. “I’ll
need you to arrange a plane to be ready for takeoff. Also, I’ll need Hendrick’s
help on this. And I’m taking Agents Brennan and Lathrop with me.”
“Call
off the SEAL team, Duran is on the case, everyone,” “Agent at Large” Kane
Bradshaw murmured as the three men headed for the door.
Evan
ignored him. While he liked Kane okay, there were times in the past they had
butted heads when Kane could sometimes be a bit of an arrogant jerk. Director
Pembrook though tolerated his glib attitude. And while Kane had no official
rank as an agent with the bureau, he had an extensive background with deep
black ops.
Hendrick
Maynard, the tech guru nodded. “You got it,” he answered without hesitation.
“Heading to my desk now. I’ll send you any relevant info ASAP.”
The
director narrowed her eyes, and Evan felt the frost radiating from her. “Agent
Duran, you are way out of line.” She paused and continued to hold his gaze.
“Ten minutes ago North Carolina state officials called for federal help…” She
paused and he was wondering if he should offer to submit his resignation. “You
will also take Special Agent Rogers along with the others. This is an all hands
on decksituation. Rowan as usual will accompany you and provide team support.”
Rowan
Cooper, an attractive woman with long dark hair who worked as a liaison between
the local police departments and the TCD team members, also rose and followed
the men out the door. She accompanied any crew that deployed to a different
location. Her specialty was smoothing over any personality difference or turf
wars among different law enforcement units on scene. But her main
responsibility was arranging overnight accommodations and making sure the
agents had what they needed in order to remain focused on the task at hand.
“Yes,
ma’am,” he replied to the director. He knew he’d overstepped boundaries by barging
in, but he’d felt the need to act immediately when he’d heard about the
situation… About Annalise…
“Plane
leaves in twenty minutes. Now go,” Di-rector Pembrook said. To him she added,
“Duran…don’t pull this kind of stunt again.”
Evan
would have offered to quit after the assignment if he met any resistance from
the director to him heading up the detail due to his personal connection to
Annalise. Nothing was going to keep him from negotiating this hostage
situation.
“Never,”
Evan replied before turning to leave.
About Carla Cassidy:
Carla Cassidy is a New York Times bestselling author who
has written more than 125 novels for Harlequin Books. She is listed on the
Romance Writer's of America Honor Roll and has won numerous awards. Carla
believes the only thing better than curling up with a good book to read is
sitting down at the computer with a good story to write.
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