Code Name: Princess

Zusatztext "Action-packed!" —Publishers Weekly Informationen zum Autor Christina Skye Klappentext When a beautiful hotel investigator teams up with an irresistible Navy SEAL! going undercover could take them over the top . . . Two FBI agents are dead. A top-secret government lab animal has been stolen. Now Hawk MacKenzie just walked in on a naked woman in his hotel shower. She says she's royalty and has the attitude to match. Whether this arousing female is a true blue-blood or not! the combat-trained Navy SEAL isn't letting her out of his sight. Actually a hotel investigator in disguise! Jess Mulcahey can't believe she's being held against her will by this gorgeous commando who's about to blow her cover. Lucky for her! she's good at narrow escapes. But just when she hits the road! dodging bullets and outwitting cold-blooded pursuers! her luck bottoms out . . . and Hawk is her only hope of protection. A few stolen hours in a stalled elevator show Jess a different! more sensual side to the hard-edged SEAL. Now the two are closing in on their missing government secrets and trying hard to ignore their memories. . . . But they're about to discover that the most dangerous revelations come from an unguarded heart. . . . chapter 1 Ten hours later Washington State, near the Canadian border The wind hit him like an ice pick from hell. It was a nasty night in a week of nasty nights, but Hawk Mackenzie barely noticed. After twelve years as a Navy SEAL, bad nights were his specialty. He studied the rugged terrain around him. Layered tracks led across the cliffs and then turned sharply, looping back to the road. They´d stopped here for a break. As Hawk maneuvered his powerful off-road motorcycle through ankle-high mud, his encrypted cell phone began to beep. "Mackenzie here." "This is Teague. What have you got?" "Motorcycle tracks. Probably a dozen or so, but only three sets look fresh. Hold on." Hawk smiled grimly. "Someone´s been through here recently, Izzy. Thanks to the rain, most of the detail is gone, but I´d say we´re talking three dirt bikes." He ran a flashlight over the wet, freshly gouged earth. "The tracks heading back to the road appear to be deeper, too. Before they turned around, they picked up more weight." Since the man on the other end of the line was one of the government´s finest security operatives, Hawk knew every word between them was being recorded. After the call was complete, every detail would be tracked and analyzed. "You´re sure they had more weight when they left?" "No doubt about it." Hawk pulled out a digital camera and powered up the flash. "I´m running some shots for you now. Maybe you can pull details from the tire tracks. Off the cuff I´d say there are three or four usable footprints here, too, probably from boots." Ishmael Teague was silent for a long moment. "I need a field assessment, Mackenzie. Where are they headed?" The Navy SEAL squinted into the icy rain sheeting down the cliff face. "They know the terrain, Izzy. If I hadn´t been right on top of these tracks, I never would have found them. The tracks appear to be running north, so the obvious answer would be Canada." Keys tapped quickly at a computer. "But--?" "But I don´t buy it. I think they´ll stay local." Hawk studied the mud, frowning. "They´ll go to ground and try to wait us out." Hawk had been teamed with Izzy Teague before, involved in covert missions that required brains, guts and seat-of-the-pants planning, and Hawk trusted the man without reservation. And trust was something Hawk didn´t give easily. "So you advise that we scratch our surveillance team in Portland?" "Roger that." The SEAL hunched his shoulders against the driving rain, reading the terrain for subtle clues he might have missed. "Put a skeleton forc...

Product details

• Authors: Christina Skye
• Publisher: Dell Publishing Inc.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.09.2004
• EAN: 9780440237617
• ISBN: 978-0-440-23761-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 105 mm x 175 mm x 23 mm
• Series: SEAL and Code Name; SEAL and Code Name
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature