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Kiss Me While I Sleep (CIA's Spies #3)
by
Linda Howard
If you sense someone’s watching you from afar, or if you feel a shadow other than your own at your back, I might as well pack it up and call it a day.
It’s a job that makes a killing. Efficient, professional, and without apology, Lily Mansfield is a hired assassin, working as a contract agent for the CIA. Her targets are the powerful and corrupt, those who can’t be touched...more
It’s a job that makes a killing. Efficient, professional, and without apology, Lily Mansfield is a hired assassin, working as a contract agent for the CIA. Her targets are the powerful and corrupt, those who can’t be touched...more
Paperback, 384 pages
Published
April 26th 2005
by Ballantine Books
(first published July 13th 2004)
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Oct 20, 2012
Lady Heather
rated it
5 of 5 stars
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Recommends it for:
contemporary romance, espionage-spy-thriller-suspense
Recommended to Lady Heather by:
"my girls" Dorsey & Karla :))
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This is the third and final book in the John Medina Series.
All I can say is WOW! What an AMAZING ride this story was.
This is the story of Lily Mansfield, a contract killer for the CIA. She was recruited at the young age of 18 and is now 37 years old. Everything She has done, she has done for her Country. She never once questioned who she was sanctioned to kill because she believed that if she was asked to kill somebody, then it was necessary for her to kill them.... and that was all she needed...more
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This was really a rather wretched book. I read another book by this author that I actually enjoyed, so when I was able to pick this one up, I did so. Now I wish I'd left it where I found it. Sigh.
There was a little bit of interest regarding how to alter one's appearance and how to try and leave no trace of yourself in travel. But those spots of interest did not make up for the weak plot.
There was a little bit of interest regarding how to alter one's appearance and how to try and leave no trace of yourself in travel. But those spots of interest did not make up for the weak plot.
Jan 23, 2008
Lorraine
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
adult mystery-lovers
Recommended to Lorraine by:
BPL Book Psychic
I liked this book for its varying POV narrations, its intricate plot, the extensiveness of plot (how the plot had several sections to it) and its epilogue. (Epilogues can be cheesy, but this one was very necessary!) Okay, sometimes the details given were too much (like what how they discarded papers they didn't need), and especially overly detailed sex-scenes that took the book from mystery/suspense to literary voyeurism (another word might work better here).(Aside: why don't books have ratings...more
I really enjoyed this but I wasn't feeling they last few pages. I'm not sure why. Maybe because I was expecting a big to do/reactions about everyones secrets coming out and well there wasn't, everyone handled it pretty well.But please don't be discouraged, I haven't read a lot of modern spy/assassin novels but this has inspired me to look into more.
Okay, kiss me while I sleep if you want. But mostly wake me up when the novel gets better.
The plot is far more intriguing than the writing itself, which contains generic descriptions and depersonalized dialogues.
CIA professional killer Lily Mansfield (good choice of last name here) plots revenge on the family responsible for the death of her daughter and dear friends. After the first killing, nothing much moves, plot-wise or style-wise. I'll take static if the writing itself is the hero of the n...more
The plot is far more intriguing than the writing itself, which contains generic descriptions and depersonalized dialogues.
CIA professional killer Lily Mansfield (good choice of last name here) plots revenge on the family responsible for the death of her daughter and dear friends. After the first killing, nothing much moves, plot-wise or style-wise. I'll take static if the writing itself is the hero of the n...more
Genre: Romance/Crime
Title: Kiss Me While I Sleep
Author: Linda Howard
Recommendation: 2
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0-345-45343-3
Number of pages: 375
Plotline: Lily Mansfield began working as an assassin since the age of 18, and she's very good at it. Each hit, however, seems to cut away a part of her own soul, and when the death of her two best friends and neice occurs, she gets tipped over the edge and ensnares herself in a dangerous game of crime and murder, where every move could be her las...more
Title: Kiss Me While I Sleep
Author: Linda Howard
Recommendation: 2
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0-345-45343-3
Number of pages: 375
Plotline: Lily Mansfield began working as an assassin since the age of 18, and she's very good at it. Each hit, however, seems to cut away a part of her own soul, and when the death of her two best friends and neice occurs, she gets tipped over the edge and ensnares herself in a dangerous game of crime and murder, where every move could be her las...more
Too much filler. Terrible ending. Retired CIA agents were hired to destroy a lab which had created a virus they planned to release on humans.
The owner of the lab, Salvatore, and the Doctor were able to continue the work after the explosion. Salvatore then killed the two agents and their daughter. Lily is a CIA agent who kills Salvatore as revenge for his murdering her friends. CIA then sends Lucas to kill her but Lucas helps her for awhile with her plans to destroy the lab. The best part of the...more
The owner of the lab, Salvatore, and the Doctor were able to continue the work after the explosion. Salvatore then killed the two agents and their daughter. Lily is a CIA agent who kills Salvatore as revenge for his murdering her friends. CIA then sends Lucas to kill her but Lucas helps her for awhile with her plans to destroy the lab. The best part of the...more
Novel thriller yang mengasyikkan, menegangkan dan banyak intrik!
Gimana rasanya hidup seorang wanita sebagai pembunuh bayaran, agen kontrak CIA ? Masa remaja Lily direnggut hanya karena dia mampu dan mahir menembak. Di usia 18, dia sudah membunuh, meskipun setelahnya dia muntah-muntah, stress kepikiran terus dengan perbuatannya. Tapi atasannya bilang, bahwa dia sudah membela negara!
Bertahun-tahun hidupnya hanya untuk yang disebut mengabdi pada negara, hingga menjauhkan dirinya dari orang-orang ya...more
Gimana rasanya hidup seorang wanita sebagai pembunuh bayaran, agen kontrak CIA ? Masa remaja Lily direnggut hanya karena dia mampu dan mahir menembak. Di usia 18, dia sudah membunuh, meskipun setelahnya dia muntah-muntah, stress kepikiran terus dengan perbuatannya. Tapi atasannya bilang, bahwa dia sudah membela negara!
Bertahun-tahun hidupnya hanya untuk yang disebut mengabdi pada negara, hingga menjauhkan dirinya dari orang-orang ya...more
Audio version of this book is great. As usual Dick Hill and Joyce Bean both give brilliant performances portraying the characters.
Overall, I liked the story. I absolutely loved McCain. He was funny, somewhat sensitive, and very sexy. Lilly was also a very strong character and I loved that about her.
The storyline was very good with a few plot twists, but not over the top suspenseful. I have to say, I would have rated this as a 3 or a 3.5 if it weren't for the ending. It was disturbing how it too...more
Overall, I liked the story. I absolutely loved McCain. He was funny, somewhat sensitive, and very sexy. Lilly was also a very strong character and I loved that about her.
The storyline was very good with a few plot twists, but not over the top suspenseful. I have to say, I would have rated this as a 3 or a 3.5 if it weren't for the ending. It was disturbing how it too...more
Actual rating 4.5 stars
I just have one complaint with the book - WHERE IS JOHN MEDINA?
Honestly i was hoping to get a bit of action from the super-spy, even if just a teensy bit. Not that the book wasn't good. It was awesome, maybe the best Linda Howard book I have read so far. The suspense kept me on the edge and the climax just blew my mind. Predictable, but Howard has a way with showing even the most predictable of endings with a thrill. Though I had guessed the ending correctly, i was still g...more
I just have one complaint with the book - WHERE IS JOHN MEDINA?
Honestly i was hoping to get a bit of action from the super-spy, even if just a teensy bit. Not that the book wasn't good. It was awesome, maybe the best Linda Howard book I have read so far. The suspense kept me on the edge and the climax just blew my mind. Predictable, but Howard has a way with showing even the most predictable of endings with a thrill. Though I had guessed the ending correctly, i was still g...more
An experienced female assassin with a heart of gold, walks off the reservation one day and plinks the man who killed her only friends. CIA send in a Texan operator who has a penchant for fast and sexy cars to remind her that it's not a good idea to leave the reservation...did I mention he also has a heart of gold?
Anyway for someone who has been on the job for 20 years she seems to struggle with switching off and pulling the trigger. Presumably he's been on the job for a while as well so it's su...more
Anyway for someone who has been on the job for 20 years she seems to struggle with switching off and pulling the trigger. Presumably he's been on the job for a while as well so it's su...more
Holy Mother of Pearl!!! "Kiss Me While I Sleep", the third book in Linda Howard's "John Medina" series (though for the life of me I can't figure out why they call it that because John Medina had very little or nothing to do with the first and third books), is the best of the bunch...
CIA assassin Lily Mansfield goes rogue and is out for revenge when she discovers the Nervi family is behind the death of her friends and daughter. On the heels of poisoning patriarch Salvatore Nervi to death, CIA age...more
CIA assassin Lily Mansfield goes rogue and is out for revenge when she discovers the Nervi family is behind the death of her friends and daughter. On the heels of poisoning patriarch Salvatore Nervi to death, CIA age...more
I liked this book, but was again thrown off that this was a John Medina book and he was mentioned once just in passing. I think the author needs to come up with a better name for this series, something about spies as that is what the book revolves around.
At first I didn't like Lily, she was so cold hearted, but once we got the background on her I realized that it was what she needed to survive. Swain was fun from the start. I think he was in a bad place with what he had to do, especially when h...more
At first I didn't like Lily, she was so cold hearted, but once we got the background on her I realized that it was what she needed to survive. Swain was fun from the start. I think he was in a bad place with what he had to do, especially when h...more
So, I tried not to let this get to me but I couldn't help it. When I read this was about a female hired assassin I was really excited to read this thinking it was going to be somewhat like the Bourne Identity but a female lead. Well, that didn't really work out for me so I tried to get into the story and characters and I think they were good but it was hard not to be let down when I had a very different idea of what the book and the female lead were going to be like. How can you write a female l...more
Gostei bastante de o ler!
Esta autora sabe mesmo como prender o leitor, quase só consegui largá-lo quando o terminei.
Revela bastante talento, desde as cenas românticas, na caracterização das personagens, em manter o interesse e suspense do que acontecerá e alguma imprevisibilidade.
Recomendo!
Esta autora sabe mesmo como prender o leitor, quase só consegui largá-lo quando o terminei.
Revela bastante talento, desde as cenas românticas, na caracterização das personagens, em manter o interesse e suspense do que acontecerá e alguma imprevisibilidade.
Recomendo!
Muito bom! Gostei ainda mais do que o outro que li desta autora e gostei bastante do outro.
Muito bem escrito, com muita acção e romance pelo meio.
Consegui simpatizar com a Lily e gostei bastante da descrição do Lucas Swain
Só não dou as 4 estrelinhas porque achei que o reencontro final entre as 2 personagens principais (depois de todo aquele reboliço envolvendo bebidas drogadas, rapto, explosões, assassinatos a frio e afins) podia ter sido mais elaborado. Acho que ela aceitou-o sem restrições ne...more
Muito bem escrito, com muita acção e romance pelo meio.
Consegui simpatizar com a Lily e gostei bastante da descrição do Lucas Swain
Só não dou as 4 estrelinhas porque achei que o reencontro final entre as 2 personagens principais (depois de todo aquele reboliço envolvendo bebidas drogadas, rapto, explosões, assassinatos a frio e afins) podia ter sido mais elaborado. Acho que ela aceitou-o sem restrições ne...more
Lily is a CIA assassin who's decided to go rogue. Salvatore Nervi killed her friends and their young daughter and she's going to take revenge. Lucas Swain, a contract agent, is called in to bring Lily back to the states for 'debriefing.' When he finds out what Lily's up to, he decides to help her out before taking her in.
This is an all right book. It's easily the least well written and well-plotted book in the series, but if I was judging it on it's own merits, as opposed t comparing it to the r...more
This is an all right book. It's easily the least well written and well-plotted book in the series, but if I was judging it on it's own merits, as opposed t comparing it to the r...more
É o primeiro livro que leio de Linda Howard e cativou-me logo nas primeiras páginas. Neste romance é contado ao leitor a história de Lily Mansfield, uma assassina desde os seus 18 anos contratada pela CIA. Tudo muda na vida desta mulher quando os seus melhores amigos e a sua filha adotiva, Zia, são assassinados. Movida pelo desejo de vingança, Lily traça um plano para acabar com a família que matou as pessoas mais preciosas para ela. Quando consegue matar o líder da família Nervi, a CIA nomeia L...more
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Nov 22, 2012
Cláudia
rated it
2 of 5 stars
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Se este tivesse sido o 1º livro que lia da Linda Howard, muito dificilmente pegaria noutro. É mesmo muito fraco. Começa com alguma acção, mas depois vai morrendo por ali fora até que alguma coisa se desenvolva, e nem sequer é uma história com muito interesse, ou que os personagens nos digam alguma coisa, lia e só pensava: Mas isto nunca + acaba??
Só a umas 30 páginas do fim é que finalmente chegamos ao que é falado desde o início, tem alguns twists interessantes mas que não compensam a pobreza do...more
Só a umas 30 páginas do fim é que finalmente chegamos ao que é falado desde o início, tem alguns twists interessantes mas que não compensam a pobreza do...more
No one knows who to mix good thriller with some serious romance and LOL comedy.
This is the second book I read from Howard,and even though I admit I enjoyed the first one(Dying to Please)much,much more,this one was definitely good too.
I fell in love with Swain and Lilly from the page one.I loved Swain's caring,daring,very loving spirit.Add to that his hilarious humour,and the character is like no one I've ever read about.And then there's his lazy walk...
Mansfield was tough but sensual,feminine ch...more
This is the second book I read from Howard,and even though I admit I enjoyed the first one(Dying to Please)much,much more,this one was definitely good too.
I fell in love with Swain and Lilly from the page one.I loved Swain's caring,daring,very loving spirit.Add to that his hilarious humour,and the character is like no one I've ever read about.And then there's his lazy walk...
Mansfield was tough but sensual,feminine ch...more
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Unabridged audiobook version - from Speaking of Audiobooks, Male Narrators 6/08/09
Narrated by Joyce Bean and Dick Hill
This one worked very well as a moving romantic suspense tale with an above average female narrator and only average male narrator. It unfortunately suffers in grade due to the fact that I can't help but compare it to other Howard romantic suspenses. It's better than the average romantic suspense book but doesn't measure up as well to her others. Also I had to work at accepting Di...more
Narrated by Joyce Bean and Dick Hill
This one worked very well as a moving romantic suspense tale with an above average female narrator and only average male narrator. It unfortunately suffers in grade due to the fact that I can't help but compare it to other Howard romantic suspenses. It's better than the average romantic suspense book but doesn't measure up as well to her others. Also I had to work at accepting Di...more
Aug 10, 2012
Novee
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
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Yayy kesampaian juga niat baca novel ini :D
Dlu pas liat judulnya, kirain ini novel romance, ternyata romantic suspense and lumayan bikin tegang jg nih novel (y)
Ceritanya dimulai dari usaha Lily untuk membunuh bos mafia kelas kakap, Salvatore Nervi. Dengan pengamanan seketat itu akhirnya Lily berhasil meracuni Nervi sekaligus kabur dari antek2nya Nervi. seru nih bagian Lily nyamar macam2 di bandara dan bolak balik Paris-London-Paris :D
Nah masalahnya misi Lily belum selesai biarpun Nervi udah mat...more
Dlu pas liat judulnya, kirain ini novel romance, ternyata romantic suspense and lumayan bikin tegang jg nih novel (y)
Ceritanya dimulai dari usaha Lily untuk membunuh bos mafia kelas kakap, Salvatore Nervi. Dengan pengamanan seketat itu akhirnya Lily berhasil meracuni Nervi sekaligus kabur dari antek2nya Nervi. seru nih bagian Lily nyamar macam2 di bandara dan bolak balik Paris-London-Paris :D
Nah masalahnya misi Lily belum selesai biarpun Nervi udah mat...more
Enquanto policial, este livro conseguiu prender-me à leitura (que é tudo o que peço na leitura de um livro deste género), mas infelizmente só o fez na parte inicial. A partir de um ponto da história, perdi completamente a vontade de ler capítulo atrás de capítulo (até chegar ao ponto em que tinha acabado de descobrir uma das reviravoltas finais, tive de parar de ler por estar nos transportes públicos, e mesmo assim não tive vontade de lhe voltar a pegar até ao dia seguinte). Foi graças a esse in...more
I would give "amazing" rating to this book if weren't for the fact the plot isn't THAT intriguing. I read this book in 3 bites actually (even though I had a lot of homework, I didn't care). This was because I personally LOVED the relationship that grow up between Lily Mansfield and Lucas Swain, the making-the-love description scenes were very well made: They didn't sound disgusting nor dirty but exciting. All I wanted was to read more and more about their relationship. You felt they were connect...more
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Lily Mansfield is a woman hell bent on vengeance & revenge against the powerful Nervi organization operated in Paris. Seeking justice for the assassination of her close friends Tina and Averill (both of whom had previously being contract killers themselves) and their adopted daughter Zia who had actually been found abandoned and starving to death, by Lily on one of her jobs to Croatia. Since Lily’s life as a hired killer didn’t provide the most stable environment to raise a little girl, Lily...more
This book is written more in the way of mysterys,which I enjoy as much as romance. I don`t think its a particularly Romantic Book,Probably because the Heroine is an assasin for the CIA and acts very cold blooded thru the whole book of course thats the theme of the book..she has become so cold blooded that she is beyond dangerous,and in this case I guess she has good reason as her best friends and the daughter she got for them is assasinated by the Nervi family,who are big time financiers and sli...more
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Linda S. Howington was born on August 3, 1950 in Alabama, United States. She began to write at nine years old, and wrote for twenty years for her own enjoyment. She worked at a trucking company where she met her husband, and then decided to try and get her work published in 1980. [1:] Her first...more
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Linda S. Howington was born on August 3, 1950 in Alabama, United States. She began to write at nine years old, and wrote for twenty years for her own enjoyment. She worked at a trucking company where she met her husband, and then decided to try and get her work published in 1980. [1:] Her first...more
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