Fatal Strike

Bestseller McKenna (One Wrong Move) continues the sexy romantic suspense tales of the fearless McCloud brothers and friends in this terrifying tale of mind-altering drugs and coercive psychic powers. In an earlier book, techie Miles Davenport was mentally tortured into a coma; upon waking, he was left with constant sensory overload. He goes hiking and rock-climbing alone to perfect a mind shield to hide behind. When his longtime friend Lara Kirk is kidnapped and used as a guinea pig for psychic drugs, she survives in her cell by somehow slipping behind Miles’s mind shield. Finding an unexpected presence in his mind, he fears he’s become schizophrenic, not realizing the “hallucination” is the real Lara reaching out to him psychically. This is not a game played with muscles and guns; it’s mind-control hell, frightening and head-pounding. The entire McCloud crew makes cameo appearances, and to those unfamiliar with the series, the unexplained names are off-putting, but die-hard fans will love this fast-paced and exciting installment. Agent: Karen Solem, Spencerhill Associates. (Oct.)