ravensandlace 's review for:

Undercover by Danielle Steel

5.0

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Title: Undercover

Author: Danielle Steel

Genre: Adult Thriller

Format: hardback book

Series: N/A 

Star Rating: 5 stars

Please note that this is an older review. At the time of writing this review, I did not keep track of trigger warnings. I apologize for this and know that going forward, my reviews will contain trigger warnings. If you know the trigger warnings for this book, please reach out to me, and I will amend my review. If I do remember any trigger warnings for this book, I will list them, but please note that it is not an extensive list. 

tw: gun violence, kidnapping, injury from gun violence, Stockholm Syndrome, 

Oh my! What I felt throughout the entire book was just pure dread and adrenaline. This book was so wild! It's one of the better DS books that I have read. This is so unlike any other book she’s ever written, and I was living for it. I hope she writes more books like this because I am hooked, and I want more.

So basically, the book has two different POVs. One is of Marshall. He was into undercover work and spent years in a jungle with a drug lord to bring him down. This is how the book starts. But after his mission ended, his superiors were worried that he had gone too deep. So they assign him to be the Secret Service to the President. However, he gets shot, and life comes to an end for him.

I felt so bad for Marshall. He lost his love in the jungle. She was the drug lord's sister. The drug lord found out who ratted him out, and so he shot her to make Marshall feel the pain. I mean that has to be the worst feeling in the world. I felt so much pain for him. So then he gets shuffled around and put to work in the one place he didn't want. That is like a double blow. But at least he begins to enjoy it for a little bit. Until he gets shot. Now he is basically out of work and can't do anything. I mean to have such an exciting life come to an end like that? Man, I couldn't even begin to imagine what that must feel like.

Then we have the POV of Arianna. Her story is just as wild as Marshall's. She moved to Argentina because of her dad. He is an ambassador, and Arianna helps him out because it's only them. She gets kidnapped, falls in love with her kidnapper, and gets pregnant with him. Some major Stockholm Syndrome is going on here. I mean that is really outside the box for DS. Like, very outside the box. As Arianna tries to recover from that experience, her life is still in so much danger.

Arianna and Marshall meet because Marshall can't resist working and notices that Arianna is being followed. He noticed that she had buried a box. Being the detective that he is, he digs it up and reads what's inside the contents. I won't say anymore, but their lives become entangled in the best and worst ways.

If I had any complaints, it would be that the ending kind of just came out of nowhere. It went much too fast for me. I mean, yes, I'm glad it ended the way I wanted it to, but I needed more information. It just seemed to end. Just like that. But that is a very small, very minor complaint. Overall, this was such an amazing book and I could keep talking about it for a long, long time. And I highly recommend it.