reviews_and_ramblings | Special Delivery by Deirdre O'Dare

Special Delivery is a short story and probably doesn't want to be more than an enjoyable break. The story is quite simple and the mystery quite obvious: Jeff is an undercover special agent who is playing the role of a delivery guy (like UPS or similar) and has to discover and illegal drugs dealing in a small town USA. They only know that one of the shop on the main street is probably the center of the traffic, and posing as a delivery guy is a good way to find out things.

Monte is one of the owner of that shop, but his business is not thriving, and so when he spots the new delivery guy, a friendly and sexy guy, he has all the time to be welcoming. Monte is probably the best thing in the book, I like his quite behavior, that makes him sweet and gentle, really reassuring. It's obvious that he can't be the culprit, but Jeff is a good cop and he knows that appearances can be misleading. And so he swears to be friendly enough to gain Monte's trust, but to not bring things to a more personal level... save that the first time they are alone, Jeff proposes Monte to spend the night together and not to sleep! If not for that sentence, that makes all the book, I would say that this is quite an incongruous turn, but here is the sentence: "A man has a head at each end of his spine, and when one is working, the other isn't". And this is the only reason why I can understand Jeff's behavior, relating it to something more near to the gut than the brain ;-)

Anyway, this is a short story, and taking this in account, managing to have a nice character, Monte, and a nice turn (even if justify only by a sentence), is enough of a success, I believe.

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