Reviewed by Dan
TITLE: Day and Knight
AUTHOR: Dirk Greyson
PUBLISHER: Dreamspinner Press
LENGTH: 184 Pages
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As former NSA, Dayton (Day) Ingram has national security chops and now works as a technical analyst for Scorpion. He longs for fieldwork, and scuttling an attack gives him his chance. He’s smart, multilingual, and a technological wizard. But his opportunity comes with a hitch—a partner, Knighton (Knight), who is a real mystery. Despite countless hours of research, Day can find nothing on the agent, including his first name!
Former Marine Knight crawled into a bottle after losing his family. After drying out, he’s offered one last chance: along with Day, stop a terrorist threat from the Yucatan. To get there without drawing suspicion, Day and Knight board a gay cruise, where the deeply closeted Day and equally closeted Knight must pose as a couple. Tensions run high as Knight communicates very little and Day bristles at Knight’s heavy-handed need for control.
But after drinking too much, Day and Knight wake up in bed. Together. As they near their destination, they must learn to trust and rely on each other to infiltrate the terrorist camp and neutralize the plot aimed at the US’s technological infrastructure, if they hope to have a life after the mission. One that might include each other.
REVIEW:
Can I just say I’m loving Dirk Greyson’s characters Day and Knight? These two men, and the story in this book kept me from doing anything else today. I started reading this morning, and couldn’t stop until I finished the book!
Day was formerly with the NSA, but was recruited by Scorpion. His dream was to do field work, but so far he is working as a technical analyst. One night while in a rough neighborhood, he rescues a young man who is being mugged, and the rest, as they say, is history.
The next morning, Day finds himself meeting with a mysterious man who says his name is Dimato, but Day is fairly sure that isn’t his real name. Day is offered a field agent mission, and meets his new partner, Knight. His first impression is less than favorable, as Knight looks a little old! But it isn’t like he has much choice.
There is something going on in the Yucatan Peninsula region of Mexico. No one is really sure what, but some mysterious satellite phone calls have been coming out of the region hinting at some major terrorist move. Now the only problem is how to get Day and Knight into the region without anyone finding out. Day comes up with the perfect solution, a cruise ship which will pull into the port in the area. Both guys are a little surprised when they discover they’ve been booked on a gay cruise!
Day is gay, but not out to anyone. Knight has had interest in men, but being the son of a minister, he married a woman and they had a child. His wife and child were killed by someone about two years ago, and Knight has spent two years in the bottle and working in the office. Gay isn’t even an option for him. Both believe the other is straight. Recipe for disaster?
What will happen when they are thrown together on the high seas of the Western Caribbean with a shipload of gay men, who all seem to be drooling over both men? No spoilers, but it might get steamy. Then they get to Mexico…and all hell breaks loose!
I loved the writer’s distinctive style of writing in this book. Although the author has published a lot of books under another name, this one doesn’t resemble those to me. I am seriously hoping, OK even begging, for more Day and Knight books! Please, please, please make it a lengthy series! Oh, and my favorite line from the book, which I can’t wait to use on someone was something like “getting further being pleasant than being a Spawn of Satan.” I’ve already thought of a couple people I’ll be directing that line towards!
I very highly recommend this book! If you buy it in the next couple days, I hear it might even be on sale over at Dreamspinner Press, but you didn’t hear it from me!
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