I gave this three stars on goodreads, but you should go pick it up anyway. On the one hand, it's exactly what it says in the title -- he's a spy! Then he realizes he's dating a spy who may or may not be a bad guy! Everyone shoots at everyone! Chasing! Shooting! Escaping! Angry sex!
On the other hand, one of our main guys is almost unforgivably slow on the uptake, especially considering he's supposed to be a super spy. It doesn't make the book unreadable but boy did I shout at it a lot.
Minor spoilers (although... it's all right there in the premise anyway): Fisher Braun, undercover CIA guy, comes home to his secret London flat to find his secret boyfriend whom no one was supposed to know about, missing-presumed-kidnapped. Fisher's boyfriend didn't know Fisher was a spy, either. So Fisher and his spy bff run off to the kidnapping site and promptly get themselves kidnapped, too. When Fisher wakes up, tied to a chair, there's his boyfriend Zach, who gloats a lot about how dumb Fisher is for not having realized that Zach knew everything all along, mwahahaha.
The thing is, though, that while the real bad guy is interrogating them, Zach deliberately lets wrong information about their sex life slip a couple of times. Fisher finds this infuriating. Then Zach puts something in Fisher's pocket. Fisher finds this confusing. Then Zach offers to do the torturing himself, and the zapping with electricity doesn't seem to hurt as much as it should. Fisher finds this... infurifusing. When the other badguys leave, Zach unties Fisher and insists he shoot Zach and then escape, because Zach says he is also undercover CIA and his cover will be blown.
The whole rest of the book, basically, is about poor angry, confused Fisher, who feels like Zach has lied to him and can't be trusted, and is definitely evil, no matter how many other characters decide he's probably not. The number of abrupt changes of heart Fisher has is honestly hilarious. The number of times they fuck and then yell at each other about trust, or Zach tries to explain yet again that he was undercover, or Fisher loses his shit because Zach lied about who he was (while Fisher was doing the same thing)... Man, this book is bananas.
It's also a very fun read, and I'm going to pick up the sequel when it comes out. If a book with torture and shooting and some very angry sex can be a romp, then it's this one.
Grade: C
#49 in 2016
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