A jaw-dropping thriller about one man’s quest to uncover the truth.
After witnessing a murder, an ordinary man thrusts himself into the middle of a CIA coverup in this thriller.
David Walker always knew that he was destined to do more with his life than sell voice-messaging systems for corporate America. While grabbing lunch at a cafe, he spots a woman who, for some reason, seems to stand apart from the crowd; something about her just feels different. He watches as she has a fast, discreet exchange with an apparently Russian man before exiting the cafe. David follows his instincts and leaves, too, and he ends up trailing the woman through the streets of New York City. But before he can catch up with her, another man intercepts her—and within seconds, she collapses to the sidewalk, dead. The killer’s eyes meet David’s, and the salesman knows that he’s been marked by the killer, although he manages to escape for the moment. What David doesn’t know is that the woman was after secret information that proved that the Russians were in possession of her family’s artworks, which were stolen from Germany at the end of World War II. He also doesn’t know just how far the U.S. government’s involvement in all of this goes. The storyline is intriguing and will have readers flying through the chapters to see what happens next. Debut author Morsilli does a superb job building up intrigue by alternating between the protagonist’s adventure into clandestine government operations and scandalous historical facts that make up the conspiracy at the heart of the book. In reality, some Nazis were brought to America by the CIA after the war to help fight against the Soviets during the Cold War. However, Morsilli’s plot takes this idea and pushes it even further—and it may leave some readers questioning if this really is just a work of fiction.
A jaw-dropping thriller about one man’s quest to uncover the truth.Pub Date: Jan. 25, 2017
ISBN: 978-0-692-82518-1
Page Count: 274
Publisher: CreateSpace
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2017
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
Wacky plot keeps the pages turning and enduring schmaltzy romantic sequences.
Sisters work together to solve a child-abandonment case.
Ellie and Julia Cates have never been close. Julia is shy and brainy; Ellie gets by on charm and looks. Their differences must be tossed aside when a traumatized young girl wanders in from the forest into their hometown in Washington. The sisters’ professional skills are put to the test. Julia is a world-renowned child psychologist who has lost her edge. She is reeling from a case that went publicly sour. Though she was cleared of all wrongdoing, Julia’s name was tarnished, forcing her to shutter her Beverly Hills practice. Ellie Barton is the local police chief in Rain Valley, who’s never faced a tougher case. This is her chance to prove she is more than just a fading homecoming queen, but a scarcity of clues and a reluctant victim make locating the girl’s parents nearly impossible. Ellie places an SOS call to her sister; she needs an expert to rehabilitate this wild-child who has been living outside of civilization for years. Confronted with her professional demons, Julia once again has the opportunity to display her talents and salvage her reputation. Hannah (The Things We Do for Love, 2004, etc.) is at her best when writing from the girl’s perspective. The feral wolf-child keeps the reader interested long after the other, transparent characters have grown tiresome. Hannah’s torturously over-written romance passages are stale, but there are surprises in store as the sisters set about unearthing Alice’s past and creating a home for her.
Wacky plot keeps the pages turning and enduring schmaltzy romantic sequences.Pub Date: March 1, 2006
ISBN: 0-345-46752-3
Page Count: 400
Publisher: Ballantine
Review Posted Online: June 24, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Dec. 1, 2005
A strict report, worthy of sympathy.
A violent surfacing of adolescence (which has little in common with Tarkington's earlier, broadly comic, Seventeen) has a compulsive impact.
"Nobody big except me" is the dream world of Holden Caulfield and his first person story is down to the basic, drab English of the pre-collegiate. For Holden is now being bounced from fancy prep, and, after a vicious evening with hall- and roommates, heads for New York to try to keep his latest failure from his parents. He tries to have a wild evening (all he does is pay the check), is terrorized by the hotel elevator man and his on-call whore, has a date with a girl he likes—and hates, sees his 10 year old sister, Phoebe. He also visits a sympathetic English teacher after trying on a drunken session, and when he keeps his date with Phoebe, who turns up with her suitcase to join him on his flight, he heads home to a hospital siege. This is tender and true, and impossible, in its picture of the old hells of young boys, the lonesomeness and tentative attempts to be mature and secure, the awful block between youth and being grown-up, the fright and sickness that humans and their behavior cause the challenging, the dramatization of the big bang. It is a sorry little worm's view of the off-beat of adult pressure, of contemporary strictures and conformity, of sentiment….
A strict report, worthy of sympathy.Pub Date: June 15, 1951
ISBN: 0316769177
Page Count: -
Publisher: Little, Brown
Review Posted Online: Nov. 2, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1951
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