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I Gave Up a Hot Date with Jack Nicholson for this Book, 5 Mar 2009
Internationally renowned concert pianist Julia Austrian had been stricken by hysterical blindness on the eve of her concert debut. Conversion disorder her psychiatrist called it, kind of like shell shock. For over a decade she lived in the dark, then just before a concert at the Royal Albert Hall, she mysteriously gets her sight back. She's overjoyed, plays like a goddess, however after the concert a female killer stops her London cab, grabs her mother's handbag and jewels, then kills her mother and the cabbie, leaving Julia alive because she believed her blind. She isn't far from wrong, because the shock sends Julia back into the darkness, but Julia got a good look at the killer and she vows that no matter what the cost she will bring that woman to justice.
Back in America, Julia's uncle, Creighton Redmond is running for the presidency and just as Julia has vowed to do whatever it takes to catch her mother's killer, Creighton as vowed that nothing will get in the way of his goal. Including keeping his father locked away in an institution so he can control his money. Including hiring a killer to attack Julia and her mother in England to regain a package his father, Julia's grandfather, had mailed her from the institution. Including smearing his opponent with false pedophile charges. And including ordering Julia's murder. He will smash everything that threatens to block his path and with his son high up in the CIA he has just the tools to do it.
The story takes a devious turn when her mother's killer frames Julia for the murder of the therapist who hypnotized her and helped her get her sight back. Now she's suddenly alone and on the run. Enter out of favor CIA agent Sam Keeline and the boss at the Company he's out of favor with is Creighton's son, Julia's cousin, who has ordered a gang of rouge agents called the Janitors to track and take out Julia. Keeline comes to her aide and now it's the two of them against the world. Keeline had been on the trail of stolen NAZI treasures and thought Julia might have a lead. She didn't, but her grandfather, locked away in that institution does. But before Keeline can get what he wants and before Julia can avenge her mother's death the two of them have to run a hellish gauntlet, dodging assassins at every turn.
Mosaic is a super spy mystery thriller that kept me away from a hot date. Well, maybe not so hot, but a date for the new Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton movie that I really wanted to see. But he'll be back if he really wants to take me out and I can always rent the movie on video. You know how it is, when a girl gets her hands on a really good book, she just has to read it.
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It's Almost Like the Cold War is Back, 7 Jan 2008
This is the kind of thriller that many of us used to bury our faces in for a weekend when the cold war was in full swing, frosty and icy. Remember those wonderful cold war writers. Remember how their spies used to zip from merry old England to the Continent and back, oftentimes with a trip to D.C. or some third world hell hole. Remember how the bodies used to pile up as our heroes fought for truth, justice and democracy against the evil reds. Well, Gayle Lynds' MOSAIC is a thriller written in that vein. For a diehard weekend reader it's almost like the cold war is back. From start to finish, as you rush from London to Washington, to New York, to Paris with our heroine, a blind concert pianist on the run from numerous ex-CIA assassins as she desperately tries to find out who murdered her mother and why.
Her mother's brothers, a presidential candidate, a successful banker and a wealthy software developer have declared their father, a thief of NAZI treasures, incompetent so that they could use and abuse his money. The blind niece knows too much, so she has to go and that is why those assassins on her trail in this book that runneth over with action and intrigue. A stellar performance by Gayle Lynds and a book that'll have you right back in the bookstore looking for her next offering.
Review submitted by Captain Katie Osborne
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by Gayle Lynds
by Gayle Lynds
by Gayle Lynds
by Gayle Lynds
by Robert Ludlum
