Viva Fiori is a fireball of enegy. She gets bored easily and runs from one adventure to the next. Sam Wyatt is ex-Marine following a trail of stolen diamonds when he meets Viva trying to save an artifact of Thai history. This book has a lot of action, too many characters to remember, good chemistry and romance. Another good Dragon One story and my favorite so far. ( )

Steamy book in some occasion.

As some other reviewers have said, there are a bunch of characters to keep track of. Some of them are mentioned, then not spoken of again for a while. When their name come up again, you've forgotten who they are.

The story is actually interesting, but the ending a bit disappointing and predictable. ( )

Sam Wyatt is part of Dragon One, a group of ex-military mercenaries. They are looking for stolen uncut diamonds which will be used by a terrorist organization to purchase weapons when they come across some robbers holding up a train. Xaviera (Viva) Fiori has found a priceless artifact at the archeological dig in Thailand. She is transporting the artifact to Bangkok when her train is attacked by robbers. She refuses to give up her prize to the robbers without a fight and Sam rescues her. Viva is a red head and Sam is instantly thrown for a loop at their first meeting. Their scenes together are great with some steamy sexy chemistry between them. And hot love scenes too.

But the major problem was that the plot was convoluted and I was confused most of the time. There were a bunch of characters with odd names (Wan Gai, Kashir, Ramesh, etc.), lots of settings, and several plot threads all tangled up together leaving me with the major question.... WTF??? I found myself going back and forth rereading, trying to figure out who was who and what was going on and where they were. Whew, too much work. I was exhausted after reading this one. (Grade: C+) ( )

did not like ( )