Undercover By Maria Hammarblad
Book Reviews - Undercover by Maria Hammarblad
Jenny Moore is a quite ordinary young woman working for a nameless big industry. She does wish for some more adventure in her life, and she gossips wildly with her friends working in the same office. One day, said adventure does enter through her door, in the shape of customer Alexei Roshenko, who is recently arrived from Russia to learn more about the company’s materials and manufacturing processes. He thinks that she’s just as pretty as the “beauties from the fabled Hollywood,” and she finds him extremely handsome and exciting.
After a brief and intense romance he goes back home, and she goes back to her old life, and that might very well have been all. Except, they can’t stop thinking about each other. All might still have been well if it wasn’t for the little complication of him being a very competent killer employed by the army. They do find a way to get back together, but the couple’s problems are just starting. Alexei finds himself forced to work as a “spy, agent, and occasional terrorist,” and to say that Jenny’s life is turned completely upside down would be putting it mildly.
The rest of the book follows their adventures trying to survive and trying to stay together and out of prison. The book is divided into three parts, and I found the first part both funny, cute and romantic, but rather slow. The action definitely picks up in the second part, and when reaching the third part it had become impossible to put the book down.
