Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Cosmo Ruckman is the youngest member of the Demon Elite squad. He takes on a sense of pride that he is using his skills in breaking and entering for the good guys now. But his criminal past has been keeping him from the one thing he desires, Agency intelligence chief Derek Kyle. Since the Demon Elite squad has broken away from the Agency, he no longer has to withstand the looks of contempt from Derek that a criminal is actually working for the government. Much to his chagrin, Cosmo receives his next assignment—breaking into Derek’s house and office to prove or disprove that he is working with their ex-boss, Victoria Mize, in her sex trafficking ring.
Derek Kyle knows his boss is crooked, but he just can’t prove it. To complicate matters, members of his team are missing in action. He wonders how Justin goes about making leading the Demon Elite squad so easy. Derek feels that it is the sense of family that the squad enjoys. One night, he is alerted that his office computer is being accessed. He goes to check out the situation and finds the cute break in artiest from Demon Elite Cosmo is the culprit. Faced with a decision of what to do with the man, he decides to join Cosmo in breaking into his boss’s house whether Cosmo likes it or not.
With the information they find, the two groups decide to rescue the brother of one of Derek’s team. He is being held by Mize to blackmail Raven into working for her. Disappointed that Raven didn’t come to him, Derek decides that while he is good at investigations, he sucks at leadership. While waiting for backup to raid the warehouse where they suspect Raven’s brother is being held, they hear a scream, prompting them to move in before they are ready. Entering the building, they quickly realize that they are outgunned. They will have to survive until reinforcements arrive. But will they live that long?
This is the third book in the Demon Elite series. I find myself engulfed in this series. While I can follow most of the action, there are pieces that I am missing as this is a spin-off from another series by the author. However, I feel I l know most of the characters anyway. The miscommunication between Cosmo and Derek leads Cosmo to think Derek couldn’t possibly be interested. Derek meanwhile would never have gone after Cosmo while they were working at the Agency even without his shady past. Only when Germ gives Derek the information about Cosmo’s life does he realize that he might be misjudging the man. As some have said, is it wrong to steal if you need to do so to survive? Put into context, Derek sees the hell that Cosmo’s life was before joining the team. Germ, as usual, provides no brain to mouth filter and provides comic relief. I hope he finds his love soon. I also liked how the author changed things up in that Cosmo is matched up with another member of law enforcement and not a victim that he is rescuing, like the plot of the previous two books.
The cover by Latrisha Waters has our young Cosmo in a model like pose with a jacket and scarf. The Demon Elite symbol is positioned in the upper right hand corner again.
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ebook, 116 pages
Published May 1st 2016 by eXtasy Books
ISBN139781487407001
Edition LanguageEnglish
Demon Elite #3
Series: Demon Elite
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