THE TARGET is an Agent Dallas thriller. Agent Dallas is an FBI agent that specializes in undercover work. She is contacted by Agent Rivers to look into the death of a former FBI agent and friend of Rivers. There have been a series of deaths and corporate sabotage related to medical device companies and the dead agent was looking into it before his death. Agent Dallas goes undercover working for one of the medical device companies in question and must discover evidence before more people become sick and die.

THE TARGET is pushed as an Agent Dallas thriller about an undercover FBI agent and how she works hard to discover the truth. The problem is the story actually focuses on the life of Agent Rivers, her contact more than it does Agent Dallas. The most likeable and empathetic character is the saboteur who should be contemptible. I understand that the author is trying to bring an understanding to the lifestyle of Agent Rivers and her trials and tribulations, but then L.J. Seller should make her the lead character. Instead she makes Agent Dallas an FBI agent that has meaningless sex with men on a regular basis and is in regular therapy the main character.

While the concept of the plot drew me to the book there were too many main characters to make the book work. It was distracting to the storyline. My other issue with THE TARGET is that while I wanted to like the characters the only one I felt drawn to was the one who was suppose to be the bad guy. L.J. Sellers uses THE TARGET to push a subject that is important to her and while that is good it makes the story and the concept fall short of what I was expecting.

Book Summary

Agent Jamie Dallas loves undercover assignments that get her out of the Phoenix Bureau. But her new case is daunting—an FBI agent is mysteriously dead, and a medical device company is targeting competitors with dangerous acts of sabotage.

Dallas infiltrates TecLife, spies on her new bosses, and tries to steal a sample of their mutant bacteria. But soon her life is in danger when she’s caught in a battle between companies, each hoping to kill the competition while launching a billion-dollar blockbuster.

Meanwhile, a famous actor is found beaten and murdered in an abandoned cannery, and a young detective lands the case of a lifetime. Determined to bring justice to his favorite star, Detective Cortez follows a trail of evidence that leads to the medical-product war—but he has no idea how deadly it is.

Can Dallas survive long enough to stop a researcher who’s gone over the edge and save millions of consumers from getting caught in the crossfire?