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Elizabeth Stride--known as the "Black Angel" when she worked for Israeli intelligence--chooses the quiet island of Hilton Head off the Carolina coast as her retirement home. She changes her hairstyle and color, takes golf and tennis lessons, and meets a kind doctor named Jonathan--a man her ex-lover, East German spy Martin Kessler, would have called dull. "In truth, Jonathan
was a bit dull ... but she now aspired to dullness. She also, however, aspired to a sex life, and that was her one and only problem with him. The flesh on both sides was willing enough but Jonathan Leidner was a doctor, not only a doctor, but a surgeon. He would know bullet wounds if he saw them." It turns out that hiding her bullet wounds in bed are the least of Elizabeth's problems in John R. Maxim's exciting and inventive thriller. Kessler's attempt to relight old fires just happens to coincide with Islamic terrorists planning to attack a local tennis tournament, so Elizabeth's search for a quiet life lasts for very few pages. John Maxim's equally enjoyable
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From Library Journal
Imagine a male protagonist who is a former Stasi agent and hero of a Communist comic book series whom we come to like and even admire. And take as a female lead an American trained by Israelis as a Middle Eastern assassin, now living quietly on Hilton Head. Combine their tangled love affair with American Muslims hiding runaway Islamic women, Algerian terrorists aided by U.S. mobsters plotting to blow up the island, and government intelligence agents trying to prevent as much of this as they can. Maxim (The Shadow Box, Avon, 1996) constructs a complex plot, juggles numerous characters, and pulls it all off with a cinematic, breathless pace. He knows Hilton Head, the Koran, and international intrigue, and there is something here for everyone?plus good writing and real page-turning suspense. Highly recommended for suspense/thriller collections.?Roland C. Person, Southern Illinois Univ. Lib., Carbondale
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