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Synopsis

On their last assignment, GORGON agents Chris Gibson and his partner John Soong protected Russian mob lawyer Andrei Voronin rather than killing him. They covered Andrei’s tracks, forged a shaky relationship, and their international intelligence and paramilitary group staged Andrei’s death and took him into the fold.

Nikita Kazakov, a Russian cop who had used Andrei as a source and promised him protection, plots to avenge his protégé. He soon tracks down Chris—the "killer"—only to find a man he desires, and Chris is just as intrigued. Amidst the danger of the unsolved mystery still lingering around Andrei, Chris and Nikita stalk each other, meet for heated sex, and try to work out who the other is: criminal, cop, hitman… or lover.

Review

With snappily crisp dialogue, complex protagonists, a dastardly villain, and a reasonably interesting plot First Blood by Aleksandr Voinov and Barbara Sheridanis a most readable gay adventure/spy novel.

Smart-mouthed young American Chris Gibson works for GORGON, a kind of shadowy international police force. Although he thinks of himself as bisexual he has been in a ménage-a-trois with two fellow agents John and Andrei, who are the other main characters in the book. Chris is being stalked by the mysterious, and hot, Russian Nikita who virtually rapes him a few minutes after they actually meet. Convincing and sometimes kinky sex scenes come thick and fast, and before too long they are unwillingly falling in love with each other. But who is the mysterious Russian working for and what does he really want? Can a growing love and a lingering mistrust coexist? These questions remain at the heart of Chris’s, and the readers’, quandary until virtually the end of the novel. In a bit more than 200 pages the story zips without flagging through various exotic European locations right up to its exciting conclusion on a luxury yacht. During that journey Chris discovers a sexual yearning that he has never acknowledged he had, and one that Nikita is only too glad to help him fulfill. These characters deserve a sequel.

-- Roy Liebman