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Having delivered two entertaining historical Wind Dancer novels, Johansen ( Storm Winds ) concludes her trilogy with a disappointing contemporary romance that collapses under the weight of its pretensions. A storm has destroyed half of the famous rosebushes on Caitlin Vasaro's estate in the South of France and endangered her plans to launch a new perfume when Alex Karazov rolls up in his Lamborghini with a proposition Caitlin can't refuse. He'll bankroll the perfume startup for a percentage of the profits and control of the campaign. Blinded by her growing affection for her savior, Caitlin is slow to realize that Alex (late of the KGB and CIA)stet ital has his own agenda: he wants her family heirloom, the Wind Dancer--a gold statue of Pegasus now in the possession of American politician Jonathan Andreas--as bait for his arch enemy, former CIA agent Brian Ledford. Besides having had Alex's best friend murdered, Ledford has been stealing artworks and staging terrorist acts to destabilize Europe and aid its newest aspiring Napoleon.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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“Iris Johansen is incomparable.”
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The jeweled eyes of the Wind Dancer, secret, enigmatic, inhumanly patient, gazed out of the black and white photograph at Alex Karazov. Read the first page

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3.0 out of 5 stars Shallow rambling yarn, Jan 20 2003

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Gerburg Frick "narrator of Red Cage, true acc... (Lake Orion, MI United States) - See all my reviews
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After reading a parade of female writers, top picks by Oprah's Book Club, it was heart wrenching to discover that my gender lacks the talent to write a decent book. Along comes Iris Johansen and I was thinking, this woman "can write", oh my God. Only I didn't expect much to begin with. In
Reap the Wind, the author puts her fictitious "historical treasure" Wind Dancer in line with national treasures like Mona Lisa, David, Night Watch. Her characters are somewhat shallow, Caitlin's has more strength, her mother is vain, her lover a scoundrel, who takes her from the romantic setting of lavender and roses called Vasaro in France into a quagmire of international gangsters. Compared to her mediocre and somewhat exhaustively boring novels Reap the Wind and Long after Midnight, this one has more zing. I found her female characters bratty, spoiled, hostile, and
feeble minded, always exposed to the bad boys for rescue or destruction. I will give this author another try, because of the entertaining quality of her books for those evenings when I am content with some shallow rambling yarn.
Gerborg

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2.0 out of 5 stars When will it end., Oct 3 2002

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If this had been the first book by Iris Johnason I had read it would have been the last. I have read many of her books. This one is at the bottom of the pile! It was to long and drawn out. I thought it would never end. Several times I almost didn't finish it but thought it would pick up at some point. I was just boring

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1.0 out of 5 stars Boring, disappointing, Sep 2 2009

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I've read a couple of Johansen's Eve Duncan novels and found them to be all right, although the author's got some badly constructed sentences which are annoying and distracting.

This story was full of holes, terribly drawn out and the characters made many unbelievable choices.

It would have helped if I'd known it was the third in a series because of the numerous references to other characters.
I'm sorry I spent the time finishing it - 'just to see how it ended'.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant
Again, I can't stop reading. This was a great book!

Published on May 10 2004

5.0 out of 5 stars My favorite IJ book!
The third in the four books about the Wind Dancer, Final Target is the last in the Wind Dancer series. Lisez davantage

Published on April 2 2004 by D. G. Welch