Review: Code of Ethics

Code of Ethics by April White
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Dallas is a Close Protection Specialist (bodyguard to you and me) at Cipher Security, a former Yukon tracker she now spends her free time in Chicago trailing people for fun. One night she is trailing a hipster in a ridiculous Canada Goose bomber jacket that probably cost $1,000 when she realises he is being trailed by someone else, a Russian guy who tries to rob him.

Our hipster turns out to be Oliver, a potential new client of Cipher Security, who has developed various face-recognition/swap software programs which he has sold for millions. He is developing a program that will expose fake footage (eg where someone's face has been spliced over someone else's body) but someone is trying to stop him from selling the program, by any means necessary. Oliver has got by on life charming everyone, he's always the nicest guy in the room, heck he'd flirt with a mop if there was no-one else in the room, but for some reason his charm doesn't work on Dallas and for some reason he doesn't feel the need to try.

Can Dallas keep this fake charmer alive?

I have to be honest at first I thought Dallas was a bit odd, trailing people around the city for no good reason, but she certainly won me over. I also loved that protecting Oliver didn't mean wearing a slinky dress and high heels to a cocktail party but taking Oliver out to her family's compound in the Yukon, complete with communal outhouse (which BTW I found hysterical) and an irascible grandfather.

Overall, I really enjoyed this addition to the series, enough to start re-reading the previous two.

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