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Flashpoint
This new romantic thriller by bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann sets a steamy love triangle in geographically and politically unstable territory. Formerly partners in a covert government organization, Diego Jimmy Nash and Lawrence Decker have both joined up with a private agency, Troubleshooters, Inc. Their first mission is to go to Kazbekistan, recently hit by an earthquake. Disguised as relief workers, they must secure a terrorist`s laptop. Aiding them is Tess Bailey, a computer specialist who`s also an ex-government agent...and to whom both men are attracted.

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