La serie Ice

Il lavoro doveva essere dannatamente facile – consegnare a mano alcuni documenti legali sullo yacht stravagante del miliardario filantropo Harry Van Dorn, fargliele firmare e andarsene. Ma l’avvocato di Manhattan Genevieve Spenser si rende presto conto di trovarsi nel posto sbagliato nel momento sbagliato, e che quello che in pubblico è un benevolo playboy ha un lato perverso e malvagio, ed è determinato a fare di lei il suo giocattolo per la serata, a usarla e abusare di lei fino a liberarsene come ha fatto con il resto delle sue vittime. A Genevieve non rimane altro che mantenersi lucida se vuole avere qualche speranza di sopravvivere a quella nottata.
Ma c’è qualcun’altro sullo yacht che conosce la profondità del male di Van Dorn. Peter Jensen è molto più dell’assistente personale senza pretese che finge di essere – è un agente segreto che non si fermerà davanti a nulla pur di fare in modo che la letale campagna di terrore “La legge dei sette” di Harry muoia con lui. Ma la presenza di Genevieve ostacola i suoi piani, e ora deve decidere se rischiare la missione per salvarle la vita, o permettere che lei diventi un danno collaterale.

Behind her mask is a deadly secret . . .
The powerful head of the covert mercenary organization The Committee, Isobel Lambert is a sleek, sophisticated professional who comes into contact with some of the most dangerous people in the world. But beneath Isobel's cool exterior a ghost exists, haunting her with memories of another life . . . a life that ended long ago.

But Isobel's past and present are about to collide when Serafin, mercenary, assassin and the most dangerous man in the world, makes a deal with The Committee. Seventeen years ago Isobel shot him and left him for dead. Now it looks as if he's tracked her down for revenge. But Isobel knows all too well that looks can be deceiving . . . and that's what she's counting on to keep her cover in this international masquerade of murder.

In the wake of a failed love affair, brainy beauty Jilly Lovitz takes off for Tokyo. She's expecting to cry on her sister Summer's shoulder, then spend a couple months blowing off steam in Japan. Instead, she's snatched away on the back of a motorcycle, narrowly avoiding a grisly execution attempt meant for her sister and brother-in-law.
Her rescuer is Reno, the Committee's most unpredictable agent. They'd met once before and the attraction was odd— tattooed Yakuza punk meets leggy California egghead—but electric. Now Reno and Jilly are pawns in a deadly tangle of assassination attempts, kidnappings and prisoner swaps that could put their steamy partnership on ice.

Elizabeth Pennington has come to the war-torn South American country of Callivera to volunteer at a tiny mission. Kidnapped by the local rebels who are more interested in ransom than politics, she ends up at their camp in the Andes where she meets Finn MacGowan, member of the infamous Committee, a covert organization dedicated to destroying terrorism. MacGowan has been held hostage for almost three years, and he's chosen the night she arrives as the night he plans to escape. When he does, she follows him, heading down the steep mountainous terrain with another hostage, the teenage son of a Hollywood millionaire. Rebels, soldiers, traitors and near-drowning follows them on their journey. As they travel from the mountain fortress to a transatlantic freighter, an old cafe in Spain ending in a shootout at a farmhouse in France, MacGowan reluctantly falls in love, and Beth learns that the cynical, dangerous soldier-of-fortune might be worth saving after all

E quell'amplesso il cui unico scopo era ottenere informazioni... porca vacca! (posso scriverlo perché sono sotto spoiler ) Non l'avevo mai visto usare, in un romanzo, e qui... funziona!