Unknown Threat by Lynn H. Blackburn

Unknown Threat
by Lynn H. Blackburn

ISBN-13: 9780800737955
Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Revell
Released: March 2nd 2021


Source: ebook review copy from the publisher through NetGalley.

Book Description, Modified from Goodreads:
US Secret Service Special Agent Luke Powell is lucky to be alive. Three of his fellow agents have died in unusual circumstances in the past ten weeks. Luke is devastated by the loss of his friends and colleagues, and his inability to locate the killer feels like a personal failure. He's an expert at shielding others, but now the protectors are in need of protection.

FBI Special Agent Faith Malone is driven to succeed and confident in her ability to solve every case she's assigned. She's been put in charge of the investigation into the unprecedented attacks, and with Luke's life in danger, the stakes have never been higher. But it's hard to know how to fight back when you don't know who the enemy is.

As more agents are targeted, Luke and Faith will have to work together to bring a killer to justice and prevent any more names from joining their fallen brothers and sisters on the Secret Service Wall of Honor.


My Review:
Unknown Threat is a Christian romantic suspense novel. Even though Luke believes that the FBI is incompetent due to something that happened in his childhood, he's impressed with how competent Faith is (and she is!). He pushed through injuries to help Faith coordinate all of the information coming in on the case. They investigated some of the scenes and people personally, but much of what they did was to sort through the evidence coming in from the many crime scenes. The suspense came from the repeated attempts to kill several of the secret service agents.

The main characters were complex, likable, honorable, determined people who reacted realistically to the situations. I cared about what happened to them. Luke and Faith were attracted to each other but both had childhood hang-ups that they needed to forgive and move past. Faith didn't trust men because of how her father had abandoned her family. Luke's family deeply distrusted the FBI and would be prejudiced against Faith. The Christian element was the question of why a powerful, loving God would allow bad things to happen to his faithful followers. There was no sex or bad language. Overall, I would recommend this enjoyable, exciting suspense novel.


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