Crash and Burn (Cut and Run Series, Book 9)

Author: Abigail Roux

Length: 419 pages

Publish: Riptide Publishing (March 2015)

Type: Print

Rate: 5

 
Synopsis: It’s been five years since Special Agents Ty Grady and Zane Garrett first worked together to solve the Tri-State murders, and time has been both harsh and kind. Engaged now, they face the challenge of planning a deeply uncertain future together. Zane is at the pinnacle of his career with one last mystery to solve, while Ty is at sea in a world where he’s no longer the tip of a spear. There’s just one more hurdle in the way of their happy ever after: a traitor from their inner circle who threatens to burn their world to the ground. Squeezed between the Vega cartel, an unknown mole, and too many alphabet agencies to count, Ty and Zane must gather all their strength and resources to beat the longest odds they’ve ever faced. To make it out alive, they’ll need help from every friend they’ve got. Even the friends who might betray their trust.

My Review

Meeting Ty and Zane was my first introduction to M/M fiction. Let me be the first to say, these two characters will keep a smile on your face from their charismatic personalities to the sensual way that two obviously different people mesh together to equal a whole. Once you read Cut and Run 1, you will not want to stop until you reach the last word in at the end of Crash and Burn (Cut and Run, book 9).

Crash and Burn begins five years into the professional turned personal partnership between two federal agents, Ty Grady and Zane Garrett. They have learned to work together, live together, and love as one while hunting psychopaths, impersonating criminals, surviving forced “vacations”, enduring bombs that literally ups the meaning of staring at four walls, cranky road trips, dealing with pissed off parents of scorned exs, stalking international murderers, and my personal favorite large tigers that love to hug.

Although Crash and Burn is last book in the Cut and Run Series, from beginning to end it is packed with wit, devotion, passion, and friendship. Ty and Zane have been hunting a mole within their small federal unit for years and trust is put to the test for those closest to the agents. Determined as ever to find and no doubt kill the traitor, Ty and Grady throw themselves into situations that can potentially end their partnership by premature death in order to keep the other safe. Crash and Burn shows the unwavering devotion Ty and Zane have for each other that has built during the years and the sacrifices each is willing to make for each other until one of them stops breathing. The love they have for each other is so well written it’s almost tangible.

Crash and Burn brings together characters from the previous books in the Cut and Runs Series in which more in-depth interactions with Ty and Zane is detailed when they are all put together for survival. Another aspect of the book that is favorable is the side of Zane’s mother, no matter how brief, that is hopeful and long overdue.  Crash and Burn is a delightful read that offers danger that tops the very definition of crazy love, sex that makes you want a cigarette after reading, and a twist that will have you shaking your head saying say it ain’t so.

I especially like that the series ends with a HEA that involves guns, black orchids, and rare books for the couple that seems more like friends than make believe characters.

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