Searchlights were flickering on, aimed upward to find the helicopters-which explained why they’d waited for nightfall. Their M134 miniguns were cutting up whoever had just attacked the embassy. She’d momentarily forgotten about the helicopters. They were just sitting there, doing nothing!Ī lance of green fire slashed down from the heavens. Gail looked at the three men seated with their backs to her in disbelief. He hoped to god Michael and his boys had already left the top floor on their way down from the roof.Įven so, he wished the Rangers would hurry the hell up. That had to be a two-inch shell at least to make that kind of fireball. Someone outside the front gate had just fired something big at the building. They’d been waiting for it, expecting it ever since the ambassador had called in a panic at two this afternoon. He’d have to remember that in the debrief. But the harsh bark of the M2 Browning machine gun put a whole lot of hustle into people moving toward his craft. It didn’t care, except for some chips in the surface. Then she unleashed a dozen half-inch rounds against a still upright section of the wall. “You have my permission to shoot the next asshole who is trying to rescue his golf game.” And to remind his crew that he trusted them implicitly. Always good to remind her that he had his eye on his crew. In addition to being loadmaster and port-side spotter, she was also his port-side gunner. (May) No star.“Nika?” he called over the headset intercom. The formulaic elements and familiar archetypes only add to the consistently reliable sense of satisfaction and fulfillment that comes with each new installment of this steadily expanding series. Buchman skillfully weaves the pulse-pounding action of aerial firefighting with military intrigue, wrapping it around an emotionally rich romantic core to deliver a satisfying tale. When the two are assigned to help fight a devastating fire overseas, they have to confront their feelings in a life-and-death situation. However, Robin has no room in her life for romance, which threatens to destroy their fledgling relationship. She first clashes with, then falls hard for fellow pilot Mickey Hamilton, who seems her perfect match in every way.

She's stunned to discover she's temporarily replacing one of Mount Hood's top people, with much to learn and impossible high expectations. Helicopter pilot Robin Harrow, fresh from her service in the Arizona Army National Guard, sees a season working with the firefighters of Mount Hood Aviation as preferable to waitressing at her mother's truck stop. The rush of adrenaline fans the flames of love in Buchman's fourth Firehawks contemporary romantic thriller, following 2015's Hot Point.

Flash of Fire by M.L. Buchman