[Read by Patrick Lawlor and Melanie Ewbank]
Suzanne Brockmann returns to the action-packed world of her bestselling Troubleshooters series with a new novella featuring US Navy SEAL Izzy Zanella, his extended family, and his kickass teammates in SEAL Team Sixteen.
The only easy day is yesterday. BUD/S (Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL) training is known for being the toughest, meanest, most physically punishing program in the entire US Navy, and a new crop of tadpoles have arrived in Coronado eager to prove their worth — to make it through Hell Week, and become US Navy SEALs.
Although Izzy prefers assignments out in the ”real world,” he’s glad to be an instructor for the current BUD/S class, because it allows him to spend time at home with his wife, Eden, and her lively and lovable extended family.
Eden’s sixteen-year-old brother, Ben, is dealing with a new crush and a homophobic bully in his high school, but it soon appears that things are not as they seem.
Meanwhile, Eden’s other brother (and Izzy’s SEAL teammate and former frenemy) Danny Gillman and his wife Jenn have just had a baby who has colic and cries constantly.
As Ben deals with the type of too-serious high school drama that could involve a body count, and Danny and Jenn juggle a new baby, lack of sleep, and postpartum blues, Izzy is intrigued by ”Boat Squad John,” a misfit team of young SEAL candidates all named John, including the intriguing young Seagull, his swim buddy Timebomb, and Seagull’s nemesis Hans.
Does Seagull have what it takes keep Boat Squad John still standing when the dust of BUD/S Hell Week settles or will they ring out?
Set in Coronado during BUD/S training Hell Week, in Ready to Roll Brockmann introduces the SEAL officer and instructor nicknamed Grunge — Lt. Peter Greene — as she delivers what she does best: a story celebrating the US Navy SEALs — and the women (and sometimes men) who wholeheartedly love and support them.
Great Novella from a Fantastic Series! An avid reader who prefers series in the mystery, action, and detective genres, I decided to Suzanne Brockman’s TS series a year ago. I figured I might enjoy it if it wasn’t too heavy on the romance. I’m so glad I did!! I absolutely love her style–romance with a lot of action, plots and subplots, and characters that have become my friends over the series. I think that’s the best part of the way she writes… we’re seeing the same characters in her books, some more than others, and it helps…
#ZanellaNovella ’nuff said I would have been on here earlier but … as soon as I heard about the book, I bought it, read it, went back and re-read Free Fall then re-read this book and then read Breaking the Rules. What can I say, it just whetted my appetite. Lately, books by Suzanne Brockmann make me imagine her juggling these virtual plot-lines; there is so much happening! Firstly you’ve got Hell Week and the SEALs we know and love are instructors and we meet this new crop of tadpoles who (hopefully) will be front and…
she’s back! i love that Suzanne Brockmann is back in TS-land. I totally support authors branching out and doing other stuff, but her other genres didn’t always have the right ingredients for me. Whereas she has done other TS novellas, they were missing something that I think was recaptured in this one. She even spoke about struggling to write TS-wise in one of the notes at the end of this story.Â