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 This is the series that reminds me that I like Romantic Suspense. Pamela Clare's I-Team books are consistently enjoyable, consistently hot, and consistently on target with commanding, alpha-style heroes. They also take place in an alternate universe. One in which newspapers are not a dying breed. The members of the I-Team are old-school journalists in the modern world. 
 If you've read this series, you know Natalie Benoit, the heroine of Breaking Point. She's a newish member of the team, having moved to Denver after experiencing devastating loss in Hurricane Katrina. The hero, Zach, is equally scarred by his experience in the military. Unfortunately, when he tried to leave the Navy, he was unable to adjust to civilian life. Without resorting to heavy drinking, at any rate. Thus, he joined the U.S. Marshalls and a different war--the one on drugs. 
 Natalie and Zach's meet-cute happens in a Mexican prison. Zach's been betrayed by a colleague and the bus full of reporters that Natalie was on was ambushed and she was kidnapped. The prison scenes are terrible, both in terms of the condition of their surroundings, and their less-than-congenial hosts. I have to hand it to Clare. Often times, when authors place their heroines in situations where rape is likely, they then go to unrealistic lengths to save them from their fate. Natalie isn't raped, but Things Happen and she isn't just miraculously rescued just in time. Neither do things get so bad that her progression into intimacy with Zach is unbelievable. 
 I admit that, while I enjoyed this book, I felt that the plot was a bit far-fetched. It didn't bother me too much because, as I said, I view this world as an alternate one. So, hey, if I can believe in a world where newspapers aren't threatened, I can believe in one where a skeezy drug kingpin has decided that the pretty reporter lady will be perfect for his perverse sexual rituals. And it did have a lot of good realism. Natalie's deceased ex is allowed to be a decent guy and not a cheating rat bastard. There's also Zach's very understandable difficulty adjusting to civilian life after the horror of war. 
 In all, this was a very, very satisfying installment to the series. I love that each time we get to catch up with the familiar characters. The ending is pretty gruesome, but it's nice to think of all Clare's former heroes banding together and to fight the enemy and save the day. Is it wrong of me to imagine them having potlucks and their children dating fifteen or twenty years down the line? Oh, it is? Well, too bad. It's my imagination and you can't stop me.