Reviewed by Becca

TITLE: Clean Up on Aisle Mine

SERIES: A Spy Like Me #1

AUTHOR: Patricia Logan

PUBLISHER: Westburg Publishing

LENGTH: 290 pages

RELEASE DATE: July 5, 2020

BLURB:

Former CIA operative, Damon Thorne, is a fixer. He cleans up messes other people make of their lives to forget the wreckage his own has become. Whether it means retrieving a drug addict whose family is being blackmailed or rescuing a furball who’s the subject of a custody dispute, Damon just gets things done.

When the job means kidnapping the wild son of a prominent Senator in an election year, it should come with hazard pay.

From the day Jude Chenoweth was born into wealth and position, his father has groomed him to follow in his footsteps. Jude has other plans. Openly gay and infamous, all he wants to do is live his life, create his art, and never settle down.

Life has a way of kicking butts, even the sexy ones. Thrown together in a situation neither wanted, Damon and Jude must now decide how to move forward. Jude knows something is wrong when he gazes into Damon’s haunted brown eyes and Damon recognizes there’s much more to Jude than the caricature he shows the world.

This might be the beginning of a journey… or an incredibly stupid mistake. Perhaps working together will help them process their own demons. Whatever happens, neither of them believes Damon’s assignments will always come with a heaping helping of bad guys.

Not always… right?

REVIEW:

This is a really good start to this series. I really did enjoy it. Of course, I like all that undercover spy kind of stuff so that was a good for me. I loved the characters in this. The main three anyway. Damon, Jude, and Leah are some great peeps and I loved how they interacted. Especially when things got tough. And it’s about to get worse. My only complaint was how it left of. It was cliffhangery and ugh.

Damon is used to being unseen, as it were. Being an ex field op with the CIA, the job he now has he has good use of those skills he was taught. After having to leave the CIA for personal reasons, a friend got him a job where he rescues people, and animals, at times. He never knows what his assignments are from day to day. Only that his handler drives him nuts in where she leaves his assignments. But this next assignment has really thrown him off. Talking to a US Senator’s gay son to have him tone down his lifestyle as to not embarrass the family. The problem with this whole thing, is the way Jude is made out to be. Like he’s some villain or something, when that is so far from the truth. In truth, he’s an incredible person with a good head on his shoulder and brave as can be. Considering how he helped Damon once. But there’s more going on than that. Jude has opened up  something in Damon he thought long dead. And when his best friend, Leah is kidnapped, Jude goes after her, and Damon realizes how much Jude has affected his life. But with what the kidnappers are asking for, can Damon save both of them in time? Because he has no clue what these people want.

The first person in this whole story you are going to love is Leah. I”m not telling anymore of her background, because it will give so much away, but she is a pistol and I love her attitude. The way she approaches life and people. She’s vibrant and fun and just amazing. Then you have Jude, who Damon was made to believe was someone else. But Jude is far from what Damon was made to believe. He’s super smart, he’s got a fiery temper, and stands up for what he believes in. And he don’t back down. But he’s also compassionate and tender and knows when to just be to let Damon work through stuff. It’s a beautiful thing. I loved watching the interaction between them. And I love how much Damon is starting to live again. Plus he and Jude work well together and it’s fun to watch them work. 

I really enjoyed this book. I don’t want to add too much more because it will give a lot away. But I’m ready to see what’s going to happen next.

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