- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: Minotaur Books; First Edition edition (July 7 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0312368658
- ISBN-13: 978-0312368654
- Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 16 x 2.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 408 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,189,390 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Smashing . . . sizzles with suspense."
- Publishers Weekly (starred review) on Breaking Faith
"Razor-sharp...swerves quickly into the helter-skelter, vaguely surreal thriller world of, say, Reggie Nadelson, with a touch of Michael Dibdin at his darkest. Wherever the charismatic Zanetti winds up, she bears watching."
- Booklist
Unanimous Praise for Vodka Neat
“Anna Blundy has written a page-turner . . . buoyant, smart, racy, and compelling.”
- Tina Brown
“A mesmerizing thriller with a sexy and sharp heroine.”
- Walter Isaacson
“Brilliant . . . will leave American readers eager for more of Faith Zanetti's adventures.”
- Publishers Weekly
“Superb . . . fine puzzles for the summer sun. Faith Zanetti [is] a wonderful character . . . A staggeringly tragic, splendid mystery.”
- Providence Journal
“A drop of the hard stuff, administered tenderly by someone who's obviously been there.”
- Christopher Hitchens
“Complex, tense, and fast-moving . . . Blundy's characters are fully fleshed, flawed, and thoroughly human. A fine mystery with an interesting and engaging female lead and a strong sense of place.”
- Booklist
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“Everyone's favorite messed-up war correspondent”(Sarah Weinman) returns in Anna Blundy's exhilarating sequel to the critically acclaimed Vodka Neat
Faith Zanetti doesn't much care who put the bomb on flight TAA67, the plane that blew up over the tiny Scottish village of Cairbridge twenty-five years ago. Wasn't it those Libyan blokes who went to prison? For a woman whose comfort zone is a war zone, it seems like the boring assignment from hell.
But as the conspiracy theories start seeming less theoretical, Faith realizes she's skating on thin ice. With the ghost of her dead father creeping out of her dreams, and the screams of the doomed passengers ringing in her ears, Faith begins to suspect that the truth she seeks might be closer to home than she thought...
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super journalistic investigative thriller, July 8 2009
By Harriet Klausner - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Breaking Faith: A Faith Zanetti Thriller (Hardcover)
London's Chronicle reporter Faith Zanetti is unhappy with her latest assignment that she assumes is gonna go nowhere as the Cairnbridge plane bombing that killed all 245 aboard has been covered to incredible lengths over the twenty-five years with nothing new. She assumes in between her booze that she will bring nothing new too.Faith goes to Italy to spend time with Eden, her former boyfriend and father of her infant. He likes Italy and seems to want to remain there; she just wants to finish her story and get back to real investigative journalism like she did in Moscow (see VODKA NEAT) although the incidents there still haunt her. Eden introduces Faith to Phoebe and Walter Irving, friends of her late father Karel, who also was a reporter allegedly killed while covering the Troubles in North Ireland. Faith begins receiving warnings from the grave that leads the intrepid reporter to realize Phoebe knew her dad intimately and the couple knows who made that call in Reykjavik to the American Embassy in Iceland just prior to the Cairnbridge bombing. She also learns about one particular female traveler who died on that tragic plane; a person she would have liked to have met.
With an obvious connection to the Lockerbie tragedy, BREAKING FAITH is a super journalistic investigative thriller as the heroine is stunned with revelation after revelation on a story that she expected to go nowhere. Faith makes the tale work as a tough individual who can out drink just about anyone while balancing a baby with her investigations. Faith's inquiry into the Cairnbridge plane bombing is deftly handled as Anna Blundy provides another winner that readers will toast with Chianti: wine.
Harriet Klausner
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