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Title: Transformed: Paris
Subtitle: A Quirky Queer Spy Novel, #2
Author: Jack Harvey, Suzanne Falter
Narrator: Sharon Eisenhauer
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-08-16
Publisher: New Heights Publishing
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Fiction, Gay & Lesbian
Publisher's Summary:
Transman spy Charley MacElroy travels to Paris to help French authorities break up a Neo-Nazi plot to scatter dirty bombs throughout the city. His older lover Electra comes along to study French, but she soon discovers Dickie Borque, a sinister British aristocrat with lavender hair, may be behind the plot. Charley, however, is not so sure.
Meanwhile, she and Charley begin having love troubles when he suggests opening up their relationship to suit his pansexual desires. After discovering that he may have been fooling around with his attractive new male assistant, Electra moves out in a huff. Soon Charley is wandering the quays alone, trying to find the dirty bombs while wistfully longing for his love.
Electra enlists the help of Dickie's feisty 80-something milliner, Odile, to break up the plot. But then suddenly, Electra disappears. Now Charley must search frantically for both the bombs and Electra amidst the cafes, conversation, and the gleaming, rainy streets of Paris in winter.
Members Reviews:
Five Stars
This series has been wonderful, this book had some nice twists to it.
Good book
Good and funny, enjoyed it.
Fun, amusing and satisfactory
The collaborative team of Jack Harvey and Suzanne Falter have come up with a second sprightly novel in the "Transformed" series. This book has our protagonists Charley, the not-quite-completely transitioned CIA agent, and his beloved Electra, tangling with neo-Nazi terrorists in Paris. Charley has been restored to agent-on-probation status after sorting out his financial foibles from the previous "Transformed: San Francisco" (reviewed October 19, 2016), the reading of which led me to decide to continue the series. Electra, introduced to us as the "Society Dom" in the previous book, is now determined to become Charley's exclusive partner, both in life and in espionage. Regretfully, she has yet to obtain necessary training or security clearance, so is supposedly simply "along for the ride" as Charley is missioned to scope out a plot to plant cesium-laced dirty bombs around Paris, and hopefully thereby implicate and drive out tourists and/or immigrants from the Near East (this part is really a bit unclear). The "financier" of this plot is Dickie, Dame of Borque, a British ex-pat who abominates all tourists.
As the plot thickens, Electra inadvertently becomes involved with Dickie and thereby "infiltrates" the terrorist ring, much to the annoyance of Charley's superiors. Although, as was my criticism with the previous "Transformed" book, there are some problems with time-line and some major inconsistencies in the story, overall it is fun, amusing, and satisfactory in the culmination.
Transformed: Paris is an easy, light read
Transformed: Paris is a fairly simple spy story based around the migration and terrorist issues facing Europe today, and an American coupleâs attempts to foil a neo-Nazi bomb plot. Where it differs from the norm is the gender and sexual preferences of the lead characters. All this is delivered in a quirky and mildly comical style.
I enjoyed the descriptions of Paris and the lifestyles of the characters, although it seemed to me that they were living more in the 1950s instead of the early 21st Century.