- Paperback: 200 pages
- Publisher: Mundania Press LLC (October 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1606592491
- ISBN-13: 978-1606592496
- Product Dimensions: 12.7 x 20.3 x 1.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 227 g
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Patty O'Donnell, pregnant wife of an Irish jockey and a trainer in her own right, finds both her career and her baby's life in jeopardy when she's abducted and forced by a pair of con men to help in a racing scam in Argentina. Patty wants nothing to do with it--until she understands the reason for it, and the quest becomes her own. At stake is a million dollar bet and long-delayed revenge. The con men's target is a dangerous man who has killed in the past and wouldn't hesitate to kill again. A man from whom no one is safe, either in the crowded city of Buenos Aires or on the vast sweep of the Argentine pampas.
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Patty O'Donnell is rapidly becoming one of my favorite fictional characters, May 19 2011
By Cathy G. Cole - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Rio Star (Paperback)
First Line: The day I discovered I was pregnant was the day my husband Micheál decided I wasn't going with him to watch him race.Assistant trainer Patty O'Donnell is pregnant, and her loving husband has turned into a Neanderthal. They don't have any real time to discuss his behavior because Patty is kidnapped by a couple of con men, putting her career and her baby's life in danger.
It takes a while, but Patty puts the pieces together and realizes that she's been taken from Ireland to Argentina where she's being forced to help in a racing scam. She wants nothing to do with it until she understands the reason behind it. Once she knows what's going on, she is a willing accomplice in a scheme involving a million dollar bet and long planned for revenge. The target of the scam is a very dangerous man who has killed in the past and will not hesitate to do so again-- and it makes no difference if Patty and the others hide in Buenos Aires or out in the Argentine pampas, this man's reach is long.
Patty O'Donnell is rapidly becoming one of my favorite fictional characters. I love her intelligence, her level-headedness, her courage, and her ingenuity. Whether she's facing down a pig-headed husband, standing up to kidnappers, or adding her own ideas to a dangerous scam, she's a character to watch and to enjoy whole-heartedly.
If you like swift-moving plots, strong, intelligent women characters, a bit of horse racing, and con games, you can't go wrong with Rio Star. Although it's not necessary to read the first book in the series, Blood Money, in order to follow the plot, I advise against it. Why deny yourself the pleasure?
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A book to lose yourself in!, April 10 2011
By Jeanne Litt "happy traveler" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Rio Star (Paperback)
This is the second book in the Patty O'Donnell series.Ms Smith plays fair with her readers and is masterful at unfolding the story in clear way and timing.
Since the main character is transported away from her everyday world, we don't see a lot of her family. We do get to see more of a villain from her first book. It is interesting to me to have a villain continuing in the series and I like it. I am looking for him to be in the next book too and want to know more about him. And especially, I'd like to learn more of another unwitting villain, who becomes an ally to Patty, the main character.
I read this book in one day, I couldn't leave it down.
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