A serious accident leaves Logan with a new face and identity, and the uncomfortable task of attending his own funeral to please his intelligence service handler. Meanwhile young Zak is convinced he's being followed and attacked on the streets of London. He's in a rock band, of Russian origin, and he whiles away his evening cottaging (hooking up with other gay men in toilets), drinking and taking drugs. It's time he turned his life around before it kills him.

In EVERY MOVE HE MAKES thousands of newly wealthy Russian families have relocated to London for safety, and Zak's father decides to hire a bodyguard. No sooner has Logan been given the job, despite Zak's sneers and refusal to take it seriously, than Zak's apartment is trashed and the lad acquiesces to his minder's request to leave the city. Zak may be immature but he co-operates, secretly thinking his minder is handsome. The British intelligence agencies would like to know more about Zak's father, and now Logan is well placed to get some information. However Zak seems determined to self-destruct and takes pills after vodka, which does no good at all. Logan has his hands full with this one.

I liked some aspects of EVERY MOVE HE MAKES but thought the funeral sequence was too drawn-out and simply unpleasant for a family to go through without cause. I also thought that Zak was stupider than his career success would indicate if he kept buying unknown pills from people and taking them with spirits. He's obsessed with his mother's death from a ski accident and can't move on, when most lads his age are only too glad to be independent and exploring life. The two young men take refuge in an isolated area of Scotland where Logan can control the situation, and with relaxation and returning health comes attraction. This adult story suffers, I thought, from Logan continually saying No, we can't get physical again, instead of getting on with making friends. We do get various security tips, such as not buying train tickets with a credit card and how small a tracer can be nowadays.

Overall EVERY MOVE HE MAKES by Barbara Elsborg will interest those who want to learn about close protection and fans of thrillers, as well as the gay community. EVERY MOVE HE MAKES is a long, absorbing read about two young men who need each other in more ways than one.

Book Summary

Keeping an eye on his charge isn’t easy. Keeping his hands off? Impossible…

It took attending his own funeral to force Logan to accept a new life as an undercover MI6 agent. That doesn’t make his latest assignment any less aggravating. Babysitting a Russian pop star with delusions that someone’s trying to kill him.

Other than an inexplicable attraction Logan ruthlessly suppresses, he couldn’t have less in common with the irritating, arrogant rich kid. He’s even prepared to walk away—until very real bullets start flying.

After his mother’s death, Zak Kochenkov’s life unravels in an impenetrable haze of grief, drugs and alcohol—until one bodyguard candidate stands out. Except his hopes of having some fun with that guard’s body evaporate when he realizes Logan is buttoned up tighter than a clam