Review – Blind Betrayal

Deputy U.S. Marshal Casey Sloane has worked at the St. Louis Marshals office for two years and is given a routine assignment to help transport a reporter to D.C. to testify before a grand jury. Valerie, the reporter, was writing a story about an up-and-coming environmentalist who suddenly disappeared and, she later discovered, whose backers purportedly have ties to a terrorist. When the seemingly ordinary assignment suddenly takes a shocking turn, Casey is forced to put aside her own feelings about the unexpected reappearance of a man from her past as she and two other Marshals take Valerie on the run. And as it becomes dangerously clear Valerie's testimony has even bigger implications than they knew, they'll do whatever it takes to make it out alive. My thoughts: BLIND BETRAYAL is the third book in Ms. Mehl's Defender of Justice series, but it stands alone. Fans will probably want to read Fatal Frost and Dark Deception just to keep up with characters who may carry over to other books. I did remember some of the names. I read the entire book in a day, it was kind of spellbinding with high suspense, even though you knew who the bad guy was and why but you didn't know what, when or how.... The Marshalls were running blind, not sure where to go, where to turn, who to trust, and even those they thought they could trust betrayed them, and those who appeared to be one thing was quite another. If you like high suspense, you will likely enjoy BLIND BETRAYAL.