A beautiful target.
Her reluctant bodyguard.
Fiery, independent Cam Sutton will go to any length to prove his Delta Force mentor isnât a terroristâeven bully the CIA into giving him the damning emails. But by-the-book CIA translator Martha Drake already knows the evidence is fishy, and itâs somehow connected to the recent attempts on her life. Soon the strong, capable soldier is her protector...and inciting a passion neither can deny. But will Cam still want to be her teammate once the real traitors are brought to justice?
Red, White and Built: Pumped Up
CAROL ERICSON is a bestselling, award-winning author of more than forty books. She has an eerie fascination for true-crime stories, a love of film noir and a weakness for reality TV, all of which fuel her imagination to create her own tales of murder, mayhem and mystery. To find out more about Carol and her current projects, please visit her website at www.carolericson.com, âwhere romance flirts with danger.â
Also by Carol Ericson
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Bulletproof SEAL
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Army Ranger Redemption
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ISBN: 978-1-474-07947-1
DELTA FORCE DEFENDER
© 2018 Carol Ericson
Published in Great Britain 2018
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Prologue
A bug scuttled across his face, but Major Rex Denver didnât move one coiled, aching muscle. Twenty feet below him at the bottom of the hill, an army ranger team thrashed through the bushes, their voices loud and penetrating in the dead of the Afghan night.
Rex clenched his jaw as if willing the rangers to do the same. Didnât they realize this mountainous area was crawling with the enemy?
His eye twitched. To those rangers, Major Rex Denver was the enemy.
He didnât blame those boys for being out here searching for him. Hell, heâd be out here hunting down a traitor to his country, too.
He resettled his rifle and rested his finger on the trigger, not that heâd ever use it against any branch of the US Military. If the rangers found him, heâd go peacefullyâbut theyâd never find him.
Heâd started as a ranger himself, and after twenty years in Delta Force, leading his own team, heâd honed his skills at subterfuge and escape to perfection. They wouldnât catch him, but heâd die before he allowed the enemy that roamed these hills to catch those rangers.
One of the rangers yelled out. âCome out, come out, wherever you are.â
Rex rolled his eyes. If that soldier was on his team, the wrath of hell would come down on him for that behavior. Rex had to bring the hammer down on Cam Sutton, one of the younger Delta team members, more than a few times for reckless behavior.
Someone issued a whispered reprimand from out of the darkness.
The young soldier answered back. âI donât care, sir, this is wrong. Major Denverâs no traitor.â