"5 Stars - Chanticleer Reviews - 1st Place Winner in the Chanticleer 2013 Thriller Contest!!A Steamy, Thrill-fest, Explosive FBI Undercover Novel that takes the Reader from the City that Never Sleeps to Sin City, From the city that never sleeps to Sin City, Mimi Barbour's "Special Agent Francesca: Undercover FBI" is a thrill-fest, rapid-paced investigative novel with a lot of heat.Mimi Barbour takes her reader in a rush to Sin City, piling on the intrigue and mystery within the pages, and, of course, FBI Agent Frankie Donovan. Miss Fran Murphy, an alias our heroine uses while posing as a new hotel owner in order to fight the thugs who threatened the last owner. All in the chase to get Mr. D, an evil and violent crime boss in the city that never sleeps.That isn't all Frankie has on her back: part of her undercover background is Sean Collins, her fake fiancé, so-called body-guard, and all heart-throbbing desire. As an initial series of bad impressions melt away, along with Frankie's rigid professional control, she is able to help Sean realize his deepest dreams.Frankie is struggling to leave the shadow of her icy, overbearing, type-A mother behind in New York City while wrapping her head around the recent, sudden revelation that her father is actually alive and living in Las Vegas as a detective - with a wife and three more daughters. As they plunge into building the father-daughter bonds denied to them for more than twenty years, professional intrudes on the personal, and Frankie heads for Los Angles to investigate a pair of kidnappers for her father. Sean takes co-pilot, until Frankie lets loose a little more control, and their impromptu vacation heats up fast.Author Mimi Barbour does not pull punches in the drama and keeps the tension wound, throwing Frankie, who deplores violence, into fight after fight, culminating in a prize-fight challenge that could put Frankie in way over her pretty head.And she's not the only one with mysteries to solve and confrontations to face: something is going on with Sean's best friend, and he'll bring all his experience as a psychologist to figure it out. Anticipation and action ride high and higher still in this rapid pace investigative novel, dangling the hope of happiness for Special Agent Francesca over the threat to her life.Barbour professes to enjoy cop TV shows and that was what inspired her to create her FBI agent series. She placed in the first in the series in the hotbed of Las Vegas, the gambling capital of North America. The story explodes with steamy scenes, gritty language, and a lot of action - a lot of page turning action."
