Morgan is a Black mercenary skilled in the
martial arts and knowledgeable about all types of weapons. He is a walking
arsenal. He carries his guns and knives in his jacket, belt, and boots. Like
any expert, he believes that “A craftsman’s got to respect his tools.”
Felicity is a beautiful red-haired,
green-eyed Irish international thief knowledgeable about jewelry, fine art, and
security systems. She is a walking burglary tool kit, carrying her tools on her
person and in her hair. She is “both a technician and an artist, the best at
what she did….”
The electrifying duo becomes a team after a
mean SOB named Adrian Seagrave double crosses both of them. Morgan is left
stranded in the jungle after he assassinates a leader in Belize for Seagrave.
All six men on his team of mercenaries are killed.
Three men kidnap Felicity as she is
escaping from a house carrying a diamond brooch Seagrave hired her to steal.
They relieve her of the brooch and leave her stranded in the Belize jungle.
Morgan and Felicity team up to find and punish Seagrave.
In a coincident that works well for the
plot, Morgan, driving the jeep he used to escape from the Belize police,
happens upon Felicity, and rescues her from a long walk home to Los Angeles.
The relationship between the Irish beauty
and the Black mercenary makes this bland novel worth reading. The psychic
connection between them is not the kind that allows them to talk to each other
without speaking. Morgan is good at accurately estimating distances. Felicity
has an accurate sense of time. The real connection is their physic ability to
sense danger and to sense when one or the other is in danger. This ability
seriously interfere with their becoming lovers.
The Payback Assignment
is not one of Camacho’s best. It succeeds in making the two main characters
interesting but the plot is run of the mill; they spend the entire novel
escaping from traps Seagrave’s thugs lay for them. Criminals versus criminals
is good plot situation but incidents have to vary. The hero and heroine
escaping trap after trap becomes too repetitious. There are no surprises and no
twists.
