- Paperback: 448 pages
- Publisher: Signet (MM); Reprint edition (Feb 7 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0451215745
- ISBN-13: 978-0451215741
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.4 x 3.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 204 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #716,172 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Well, here's a surprise: Gail Connor and Anthony Quintana, who have been edging ever closer to marriage through several episodes in Parker's Suspicion series, have finally done the deed--tied the knot during a weekend trip to the Florida Keys, much to the consternation of their respective families. Now they are planning a jaunt to Cuba, Anthony's homeland, but the trip is complicated when the CIA asks Anthony to pass on a message to his brother-in-law, a general, who may be the target of an assassination plot. Further muddling matters, one of the assassins may be the son of two of Anthony's closest friends. This series has been around for a while, but it hasn't yet reached the point where the characters feel too familiar or its plots have drifted into formula. The interpersonal dynamics between Connor and Quintana remain sharp, and the Florida setting continues to add to the appeal. If Parker keeps writing them as smartly as she has written this one, her series may never turn stale. David Pitt
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Book Description
Gail Connor and Anthony Quintana make a combustible mix on many levels. Passionately attracted to each other on a personal level, they are equally passionate defenders of their clients even when their interests don’t always work in tandem. Set all this against the sultry background of a Miami that is riddled with crime and corruption, drowning in drugs, illegal immigrants and shady deals, simmering with a melting-pot clash of cultures and you have a recipe for highly entertaining, hotly explosive crime and justice. In the eighth title in the Suspicion series, SUSPICION OF RAGE, Gail Connor agrees to accompany her new husband, Anthony Quintana, to his beloved native Cuba. Caught between a family which supports the Revolution, ties to a radical underground group, a threatening secret message from the CIA to his brother-in-law, a Cuban General, threats of terrorism and a long-lost love, the hard-won peace of a new family is at risk.
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3.6 out of 5 stars (8 customer reviews)
13 of 16 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Plenty of action in this romantic thriller, Dec 5 2004
By Harriet Klausner - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Suspicion Of Rage (Hardcover)
After a quickie marriage, Miami lawyers Gail Connor and Anthony Quintana plan to travel to Havana via Mexico so she can meet the Cuban branch of her new husband's family. They plan to stay at his sister Marta's house; she is married to General Ramirez Vega, a rising star in Castro's government. Anthony is also friends with political dissidents so he tries not to talk politics while he is there.This trip proves impossible because before he leaves a government investigator wants Anthony to persuade his brother-in-law to defect; they want him to verify what Major Omar Cespedes Ruzi, a Cuban defector, told them when he arrived in the United States. Gail and Anthony find that General Garcia, Romero's boss, wants Anthony to find out what Cespedes told government officials and he won't let them return home until he gets some answers. While these events are transpiring, dissidents in an underground cell plans to assassinate General Vega and one of these rebels has a very special relationship to Anthony.
Unlike the previous books in this series, this novel takes place on Cuban soil and readers see how life is like for those who support the government and those who oppose it. Much against his will, Anthony is forced into the role of spy in order to keep America from invading Cuba. There is plenty of action in this romantic thriller but the heart of the story lies in Anthony's love for a Cuba that he was forced to leave when he was thirteen years old .SUSPICION OF RAGE is a fantastic thriller that will grab and keep reader interest.
Harriet Klausner
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointing, Jun 5 2006
By A Reader - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Suspicion Of Rage (Hardcover)
Here I thought I was buying a mystery...only to find the author using this book as a soapbox for Cuban history and politics.I've found this series to be less enjoyable since it's morphed from the Gail Connor mysteries to the Gail Connor and Anthony Quintana mysteries to what I believe is now the Anthony Quintana mysteries. Gail seems to have become a supporting character in her own books as Mr. Perfect continues to zip around in his red cape, saving the world and all its people.
Aside from her character being minimized, Gail has gone from a fiesty indepedent lawyer to an annoying, harping shrew who whines and complains to and about Anthony constantly, but then forgets all about it as soon as he kisses her hand and calls her "bonboncita" (which is usually about when I throw up). Anthony is way too slick for my tastes -- I lived in Miami for 15 years, and having known many Anthonys, I can guarantee that this guy wouldn't give someone like Gail a second look, let alone marry her and put up with her garbage. And no one...I mean NO ONE...is as perfect as the author tries to make us believe Anthony is.
I was disappointed in the supporting cast in this story too. I didn't think any of the Cuban characters were fully developed and there were a lot of loose ends left hanging, particularly with Mario and Marta. I also thought the regular supporting cast was pretty useless to this story. The author would've been better off leaving them all at home and not wasting so much time on finding stuff for all these people to do.
While this book was suspenseful and well-written, I really didn't expect or want to read a political novel about Cuba and Cubans. Had I wanted that, I would've picked up a Carolina Aguilera-Garcia book.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
A dreary non-suspensefull history lesson!, Mar 23 2005
By L. Lyman - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Suspicion Of Rage (Hardcover)
I love Barbara Parker and can't wait for each book, so I was really disappointed to have purchased a Cuban history book instead of a legal thriller. I understand that the writer is passionate about Cuba and Cuban exiles, but this story was so perdictable and dull, she lost my sympathy early on. My guess is that anybody acting against Fidal Castro while in Cuba will always be in danger, so the unfolding events were no surprise.Hopefully the next book will have both a legal case and Gail's family life or I'm thinking Parker's books go off my "must buy in hardcover" list.
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