Retribution by J.M. Madden

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

The Dogs of War have rescued American servicemen from research camps run by the Silverstone Collaborative. Now it’s time for the company, and its owner Damon Wilkes, to pay for what they’ve done. Wulfe Terberger is the man to bring them to justice. With the cooperation of the CIA and a covert informant, they begin taking down the conspirators, but Damon has disappeared and kidnapped his own son to hold as protection.

Elizabeth Wilkes has stayed in her sham of a marriage only for the sake of her son, but when her soon-to-be ex bastard kidnaps her child, all bets are off. She’s been working behind the scenes for years to secure her company and her son’t future, but it’s time for her to come out of the shadows to take control. That also means reconnecting with Wulfe. They were an item years ago, and now she needs his help if she is to get her son back. As they chase Damon down, Wulfe and Elizabeth have to fight the attraction they feel for each other…

Retribution

Lots of action, though not quite enough retribution!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙🖤💚❤️
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍🌎
Character development: 😔🤨😛😁

The Hero: Wulfe Terberger – he is from an extremely wealthy family and is a former German Navy special forces officer that volunteered for a top-secret research project creating super soldiers in the Amazon using a plant called Ayahuasca that local medicine men have been ingesting for years which has been reported to cause them to have special abilities. Though the volunteers from the special forces of thirteen different countries hadn’t known they would end up being prisoners who were experimented on and tortured. Wulfe and his friends, The Dogs of War, escaped two years ago, recently they freed others from three research camps including the one they were held at, and now are going after Silverstone Collaborative, the company behind it all and Damon Wilkes, the owner.

The Story: The three “Dogs of War” that escaped from the camp in Brazil, all have enhanced abilities, including increased strength, speed and healing abilities. They also have increased intelligence and powers of the mind, which include the ability to sway people, some telekinesis, and the power to read emotions of other people. They are the super soldiers that the Silverstone Collaborative and the countries involved sought to create. However, when they escaped, they took with them the secrets to the serum that created them since the lead Doctor died right before their escape. They took his journals and thumb drives. Silverstone has been trying to re-acquire the three men ever since.

The heroine: Elizabeth Wilkes – she had married Damon Wilkes years ago for her family, she never loved him like a wife should love her husband and as the years went by, she actively started to dislike him. She stayed with him for her son Blake’s sake, but eventually found out things about him and suffered his abuse and cheating, so she decided to take her life into her own hands for herself and her son. Though ever since Damon’s mistress Priscilla died, he had been behaving erratically until finally he took her son and ran. Elizabeth had been Wulfe’s “inside man” at Silverstone and had been feeding him information for months, but now she went to him for help.

Like the previous books in this series, there was a lot more action and suspense than steam. Though there was romance throughout the book as the two main characters got to know each other again. They had dated when they were young, so this was a second chance romance, which I usually am not too fond of, but this one was good. I started this book in the evening and couldn’t put it down until I finished it at after 3:00 am.

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