Blaze of Glory

June 1, 2006
Once again special ops air force captain Bobby "Postal" Ruznick finds himself on a mission with air force psychologist-profiler Dr. Grace Marie Lanier in the Central American country of Cantou. Lanier, the unwilling "parent" to her bipolar genius father, is scared of relationships, and Bobby has clawed his way up from a crack-addicted mother and ADHD. While they are resolving their issues and exploring their feelings for each other, Lanier's physicist father is attracted to Felicia, a suspected nuclear weapons spy. In the midst of these budding relationships, a dirty bomb nearly ends life as we know it, but Bobby's crew and Grace's father save the day. Compared to Mann's other Wingman Warrior titles, there's a little too much going on in this story, but her sympathetic characterization of Bobby, a unique ADHD protagonist, is typically superb. Hopefully this is the start of a military romance series in the tradition of Suzanne Brockmann.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2006, American Library Association.)