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A category five Hurricane is headed towards Tango Key, Florida. Everyone is attempting to make their homes and/ or businesses secure or are fleeing the island. Unfortunately traffic on the bridge is moving slowly as the police are hunting two escaped convicts and their criminal accomplice. One of the convicts is a serial murderer and the other is a bank robber. Their accomplice is currently unidentified but is believed to be the robber's partner. As all three of these criminals are armed and have killed several people in their jailbreak, their capture is more pressing to the FBI than the approaching storm. Mira Morales is a psychic that the police and FBI frequently use to go over crime scenes and evidence. She is more concerned with keeping her home, business and family safe from the hurricane than the current criminal situation. Yet, Mira is dragged into the situation as her fiance is involved with the investigation. With the hurricane almost on land, the three criminals overrun Mira's home. She is barricaded with them and they are all armed. Her daughter, while not in the house, is at risk in her hiding place. Mira must put her life on the line in order to protect herself and her family. CATEGORY FIVE is a fast-paced adventure thriller. While the story moves slowly in the beginning, the book is merely pacing itself. With the hurricane's approach to land, the characters' actions start becoming more focused and tense. Then once the hurricane touches land, everything spins out of control. Somehow all of the characters have to find the solutions for their various problems before the hurricane leaves, or their lives will be just as damaged as the landscape in the hurricane's path. Using a fast-moving hurricane as a backdrop to the story makes the story's atmosphere more suspenseful and dangerous. Even though Mira is a psychic and has the ability to sense things others cannot, she is not the most interesting person at the beginning of CATEGORY FIVE. When this book begins, she seems stressed over her family and overworked. It is not until Mira is forced to rely on her own strengths in order to save her family and home does she step into her own. In addition, once she makes up her mind, she stands by her decisions. Her own belief of what is right and wrong regardless of what is legal or illegal becomes one of the most vital conditions for the book's resolution.
Reviewed by Sarah Dudley, April 2006
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