Shades of Gray: A Kgi Novel (KGI, #6)

by Maya Banks

The Kelly Group International (KGI): A super-elite, top secret, family-run business. Qualifications: High intelligence, rock-hard body, military background. Mission: Hostage/kidnap victim recovery. Intelligence gathering. Handling jobs the U.S. government can’t…

P.J. and Cole were sharpshooting rivals on the same KGI team and enjoyed a spirited, uncomplicated camaraderie. Until the night they gave in to their desires and suddenly took their relationship one step further. In the aftermath of their one-night stand, they’re called out on a mission that goes terribly wrong, and P.J. walks away from KGI, resolved not to drag her teammates into the murky shadows she’s poised to delve into.

Six months later, Cole hasn’t given up his search for P.J., and he’s determined to bring her back home where she belongs. Bent on vengeance, P.J. has plunged into a serpentine game of payback that will make her question everything she’s ever believed in. But Cole—and the rest of their team—refuse to let her go it alone. Even if it means sacrificing their loyalty to KGI, and their lives…

Also includes a never-before-in-print KGI novella exclusive to the mass market edition!

• ISBN10: 1101614641
• ISBN13: 9781101614648
• Publish Date: 31 August 2013 (first published 31 December 2012)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: GB
• Imprint: Berkley Books
• Format: eBook
• Pages: 304
• Language: English

Reviews

[leelu92]

I was super excited for this one... superdeeduper excited. I ended up reading this one 14hrs or so... I cruised through it. There were times where I was kind of frustrated with PJ and her bipolar personality. But, I guess I can see where she compartmentalized everything. She and Cole were pretty hot together when she finally let her guard down and went for it with him.
And then the big bad happened and it was downright hard for me to get through that part. The fact that her whole team knew what happened and the aftermath was heart wrenching.
Gotta love Steele and the whole KGI family closing ranks around her especially once they found her again. She needed to know that they would not desert her like her other team had.
COLE. Loved him and I loved that he pulled PJ out of herself and we got to see her show some personality. Altho some of the stuff she said and did where Cole was concerned (being so almost schmoopy with Cole) was a bit unnerving. We've known so little about her that any kind of personality or affection she shows feels out of character.
Good from Maya Banks... not my favorite of this series but still a good one.

[EBookObsessed]

David “Cole” Coletrane knew from the moment he first laid eyes on her, that P.J. Rutherford was something special and he wanted her desperately. Their easy camaraderie and playful competition was all part of the closeness of Steele’s team at KGI.

When KGI received a request to assist in bringing down a powerful and dangerous player in the underworld of human slave trade, specializing in children, there was no question they wanted a part in the takedown. The op was to send in P.J. into a swanky party to get information from Carter Brumley’s second in command, a man whose lips loosened up when he started drinking. Get some information where to find the children and get out. P.J. was a sniper, not an undercover operative, but she would do whatever she could to get those kids home. But when P.J. catches the eye of Brumley himself, the operation starts to go south. P.J. is separated from her team, drugged and is now terrified and alone with a monster.

Although her team reaches her before she is “disposed of,” the damage has been done and P.J. sinks into mire of helplessness and rage. She feels she is a weakness to her team and she leaves the hospital to go into hiding. She doesn’t want be the weak link, and more importantly, P.J. has a new mission--revenge! She will not take her team down that road with her. But P.J. doesn’t give her team enough credit. They don’t see her as weak. They only see her strength for surviving the horrors of that night.

When Brumley’s people start showing up dead, the team finally knows where to find P.J. and they will do whatever they can to protect P.J. from herself and from Brumley. A dangerous man like Brumley isn’t going to sit quietly waiting for P.J. to show up and kill him. No way in hell will her team leave her alone to face the danger by herself.

THOUGHTS:

This was a very emotional story. My heart was racing for most of the story. Maya Banks draws you into all the emotional turmoil. I could feel the frustration and pain of the team as they could hear over the transmitter what was happening to P.J. while they desperately tried to find her. You could feel P.J.’s fear, pain and rage over being drugged and raped by this monster. Then the frustration of the team trying to find P.J. after she disappears. She doesn’t glance over the darker issues. You feel it.

Although this was a darker story than I would usually go for, the emotions were so powerful that it is certainly not a story I will forget anytime soon.

I really like her KGI series and from the title of the next story, I am guessing that Steele is up next. It will be interesting to get into the head of this very cool and controlled team leader, especially after we finally see some real emotion as he too hurts for what P.J. went through.

Received an ARC from Berkley/Penguin. Thank you.




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