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Have Body Will Guard Series Analysis
Have Body, Will Guard Series is a series of gay erotica novels by the Lambda Literary award-winning novelist Neil S. Plakcy who also writes mystery and romance. The first novel in the popular series of novels was Three Wrong Turns in the Desert that was first published in 2009. With positive reviews coming in heavy and the novels flying off the book shelves Plakcy has written six more titles in the still ongoing series which have just been as well received by fans and critiques alike. The lead characters in the series are the gay lovers Aidan Green and Liam McCullough who are bodyguards to several characters in the course of the series. The series of novels are thrilling reads that are set in exotic settings to combine the experiences of the …show more content…
However, the author believed that the market would be more receptive to a combination of gay romance and action sequences hence the mix of the two in the latter novels. Aidan and Liam who are professional bodyguards find that they have so much time on their hands that they are frequently having sex during periods of downtime. Their mission sees them protect one of their own kind a Muslim pop singer who has a fatwa issued against him after he comes out of the closet. However things are never so simple in the Middle East as social and religious issues are often intermingled with political rivalry, which can lead to death threats and fatwas. Aidan Green starts out as an innocent looking Hitchcock character swept into the adventure and intrigue of Liam McCullough a professional bodyguard and ex-Navy SEAL. The two are soon running together on a wild adventure through the Tunisian desert after Liam’s client is murdered. Aidan grows over the course of the series to become a well-trained assistant to Liam who is more confident though still uncertain of his skills particularly when juxtaposed alongside those of his love Liam. His inexperience is one of his biggest demons throughout the novel series, which threatens to pull the two lovers apart. Things are not made any better by the fact that their clients are typically handsome gay men that are just as sexy and …show more content…
Plakcy. Aidan Green knows that he wants to have sex with the Liam McCullough the tall and handsome man he spies showering naked in the courtyard of a Tunisian bar. Things do not go as planned as a couple of muscular hired thugs and a dead courier ruin everything. However, it is not long before the tall bodyguard convinces him with logic, smiles, and wiles to race with him across the Libyan Desert where a rendezvous with a Tuareg cheiftain awaits. With no one to stop them, they get it on and explore Liam’s passion that he had kept under wraps for years when he was a Navy SEAL. Aidan is also enjoying the love that he had gone without for months after his long-term boyfriend dumped him. From a remote dune in the Sahara, to a Turkish bath to the back of a motor cycle, the two men bring each other to the heights of pleasure never before experienced. But in the midst of all the love making, they are running away from Libyan intelligence keen to find them and take away from them the password to a Swiss bank account with millions of

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