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Hardcover: 368 pages Publisher: HarperBusiness (January 1, 2004) ISBN: 0060540346 Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.3 inches Fools Rush In is the definitive account of one of the greatest fiascos in the history of corporate America. In a narrative fraught with drama, Nina Munk reveals the overweening ambition and moral posturing that brought down the Deal of the Century. With painstaking reporting and the remarkable eye for detail she's known for, Munk lays out, step by step, the anatomy of a debacle. Irreverent, witty, and iconoclastic, she sees through it all brilliantly. "As in all great Greek tragedies, you knew the plot before it played out," one perceptive insider told Munk on the subject of the AOL Time Warner deal; "you knew who'd be sacrificed at the altar." Here's what we discover in Fools Rush In: In their single-minded quest for power, Steve Case and Jerry Levin were at each other's throats even before the deal was announced. Bob Pittman was regarded! as a "windup CEO" by Case, and viewed as a hustler by just about everyone at Time Warner. Ted Turner underestimated Jerry Levin's ruthlessness badly. And Levin himself, convinced he was creating a great legacy comparable to that of Time Inc.'s founder, Henry Luce, refused to acknowledge the obvious: that, with a remarkable sense of timing, Steve Case had used grossly inflated Internet paper to buy Time Warner.
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A Must Have !.......2006-01-10
You don't have to be interested in AOL, Time Warner or their merger to read this book! This is a classic tale in American history of what happens when everyone thinks they are the only one with an idea and forgets that to make a company work, there must, under no uncertain terms be Teamwork. Any company already in existence, any company about to be formed, any company about to merge, any company thinking about merging, any business person, any person entering a business field ... oh forget it - anyone on the face of the earth should read this book and their knowledge of America and its business practices would vastly improve their ability to navigate through it.
Can You Tell a Book by Its Cover?.......2005-02-22
Having read Stealing Time by Alec Klein, I was sure that I didn't want to read another book about the AOL-Time Warner fiasco. But then I happened to see the cover of this book at the library and couldn't resist its delightful cover. And I'm glad that the cover drew me in.
Ms. Munk has written a delightful story of the world's worst large merger that features lots of texture about the key players (especially Gerry Levin) and is written in a simple, effective style. Her book has more balance than the Klein book which emphasizes the sales and accounting legerdemain at AOL.
One of the book's most engaging qualities is that it is filled with powerful and interesting quotes from the participants and the observers.
I have had the opportunity to observe Time Warner in the past as a consultant, and I was struck that Ms. Munk did well in capturing the management style of the company and its reclusive CEO, Mr. Levin.
I would have rated the book higher except that this report still leaves the central mystery of AOL-Time Warner unexplained . . . why didn't anyone at Time Warner or its advisors figure out that AOL's profit success was based on a three-card Monte game before the deal was announced? Either people were bought off or they were monumentally stupid. Getting to the bottom of that mystery will have to await yet another book on this subject, I'm afraid. Ms. Munk puts it down to Mr. Levin's "big-picture, don't-bother-me-with-the-details" mentality.
If you want smooth, easy reading that gets most of the facts right, this book is a good choice. I particularly commend this book to students who are learning about how to make (and more importantly, not to make) acquisitions. If you mainly want to know about the AOL shenanigans, I suggest Stealing Time instead.
Eye opener for small investors.......2004-12-08
Munk's book reads like a fast paced novel and is easy enough to understand. It has not received the publicity of books like 'Good to Great' although in many ways it provides fundamental information on how big business is really conducted- for the benefit of pushy and powerful owners, managers and special interests.
Read this book to get real insight into how compliant board members and clueless senior management can wreck your 401K account. If an insider like Ted Turner could lose $ 8 billion in a three year period, where does it leave Joe Blow who plans to retire on his stock market investments?
Munk's book surprised even a cynic like myself- how could 2 persons deceive and mislead so many professionals and investors and evaporate $ 200 billion in less than 3 years? If this story does not provoke actionable investigations into the effectivness of oversight and toothlessnes of the legal system (to protect investors), I am not sure what will. In this regard, it is a very valuable read.
Great for reflection.......2004-11-05
I really liked this book. As a former participant of the crazy ways of carrying out business during the Internet hype, I think Nina Munk captured the essence of what drove so many people to act irrationally. She is objective, thorough and able to take the reader through a smooth ride across the AOL story.
Overpriced and overhyped.......2004-05-22
This is an article masquerading as a book. When the price drops to the price of a newsstand magazine, as the towering remainder pile suggests it will any day now, pick up a copy. Until then, read the Vanity Fair excerpt.
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Published in Britain to great acclaim -- a startling, gut-wrenching memoir of war, personal dissolution, and rebirth -- based on the author's experiences in Bosnia.
When tragedy strikes Bill Carter's life he finds himself drawn to an unlikely place -- Bosnia, in the midst of its civil war. Searching for meaning in the heart of darkness, he manages to find lodging in an abandoned tower block and sets out getting supplies to the starved, besieged citizens of Sarajevo. It is there that Carter emerges from his stupor. Inspired by a community of people working to bring relief to the city, he daringly enlists the help of music group U2 and its lead singer, Bono, who set up satellite links on the band's Zooropa tour that allowed ordinary citizens of Sarajevo to speak unedited and live on 90-foot television screens to thousands of concertgoers worldwide.
Just as Michael Herr's Vietnam memoir Dispatches captured the horror of war for the '60s generation, Bill Carter's Fools Rush In will be the seminal book for this generation on the visceral and transformative impact of war in our time.
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Highly Recommended.......2007-05-14
A layered, character-driven memoir that reads like a novel. For everyone who wants to understand a little more about war -- and right now, shouldn't that be all of us?
War and Love - a really powerful story.......2006-06-14
I loved this book. It was raw and powerful and really moved me. This book touches on a couple of key themes - war and love. I found it a really powerful commentary on the politics of war, without being a political polemic. Equally,anyone who has experienced the death of someone young and close to them will find a kindred spirit which may make the experience less lonely. The only time Carter lost me was when he describes his experiences with U2. He comes across as bit of a victim, a bit too self pitying. This is a problem only because it is at odds with the rest of the book which has such a tone of endurance and spirit.
Truely a story of love and war.......2005-08-27
This emotionaly moving story encompasses all facets of human emotion and should truely be read by everyone.
Intimate and Horrifying.......2005-06-29
FOOLS RUSH IN by Bill Carter is a memoir of the siege of Sarajevo by an American who voluntarily went there to help the Bosnians victimized by the Serbian aggressors.
Carter had recently lost a girlfriend suddenly in a car accident, and he was looking for something to do to get away from his grief. He went to the Balkans, where he had a friend working for an aid organization in Split, Croatia. He couldn't get an "official" job in Bosnia, during the war, so he joined The Serious Road Trip, a group of internationals, who drove brightly painted trucks and cars and delivered food aid to beseiged people while juggling and clowning for the kids. Carter's main friend in the narrative is Graeme, who utters some funny Brit black humor in the course of the surreal events of the memoir. ("Easy there, Spam," will forever be part of my ideolect.)
Carter essentially moves to Sarajevo, and stays in an office tower near the front lines, the Unis Towers. He tells of the daily hardships of living with no sure supply of water, food, gas, electric along with having to move through the city ever-aware of snipers. The Serious Road Trip delivered food to different groups around the city, mostly based on interpersonal relationships the members of TSRT developed. For example, Carter meets two sisters who lead him on a run across Sniper Alley (they accused him of being a "war tourist") to their apartment, which they couldn't leave once the siege began until their father dug a tunnel out of the building, as the main exit faced the Serb-occupied hills. In the family's apartment, Carter feels guilt over enjoying the hospitality they offer him. He can see from their faces and bodyies that they are slowly starving, but they are all amazed when they find a bullet in the flour he was carrying in the box of groceries he was taking to them as he ran across Sniper Alley. He watches a video with the family of a birthday party, and in the video, as they celebrate, a bullet comes through the window and lodges in the wall. After the instant of the shot, the family recovers and continues the celebration. After showing the video, the mother tells Carter, "Our first bullet."
It is unreal and inhumane moments like this that are best illustrated in Carter's narrative. Much of the last half of the book deals with Carter's idea to get U2 to publicize the problems in Sarajevo because of the siege. (The UN brought in food for those trapped in the city, but the Serbs wouldn't allow it to be delivered unless they got 40 percent of it themselves. The UN troops also kept Sarajevans in the city, not allowing them to connect with the free Bosnian territory just beyond the UN controlled airport.) The U2 aspect was interesting, and illustrated how the world came to be outraged about what was happening to Bosnians, but it was less interesting than the small moments so well depicted by Carter's intimacy with the lives of Sarajevans but colored by his "foreigner's" view, as an American. His stranger's view of the situation allows him to voice his moral outrage, but his intimate experience with the city's horrors, and his own hardships because of it, allow him that outrage, legitimize it.
The thing I didn't like about the book is an aspect of Carter's personality that I term (borrowing from organizational communication) "low elimination breakpoint." Carter seems to be better than everything, or at least everything around him has intolerable flaws. Aid organizations are too bureaucratic, so he won't work with them. Even though he works in film and makes a documentary of the hardships in Sarajevo during the siege, working in film is also not good enough for him. Etc. I found some of the writing overwrought (he was the most in love of any person ever in love, for example). He seems to morally eschew attention for his work in Bosnia, but then is offended when he doesn't get what he thinks is his fair share.
One of the most moving and upsetting moments in the narrative is when TSRT is trying to get out of Bosnia to collect supplies and stays with a Muslim family in a town after the Croats have turned on their Muslim allies against the Serbs. Carter and his colleagues know the town they're in is about to be ethnically cleansed, and the family they're staying with will be victims of that cleansing. There is a teen-age boy in the family who tells them it isn't their war, and Carter thinks, whose war is it?" A boy's war? People who didn't cause it, but are about to be killed en masse because of their Turkish sounding names? TSRT can leave the town, but the people with whom they've stayed cannot. Again, it's the intimacy and humanity of the encounter that make the impression. Carter later hears that the people of the town who could flee tied handicapped and sick people to their beds and fled the genocidal murderers by running into the woods. That's all he knows of the family who sheltered him...
I bought this book at an English-language bookstore in Sarajevo, so it was richer to read about such places as Sniper Alley, the Holiday Inn, the Old Town, the tunnel the Bosnian forces used to get supplies and soldiers into and out of Sarajevo after having seen them myself. It's a good book and serves as an effective companion to the historical and political reportage that exists on the war. I recommend it.
Superb, heartfelt story!.......2005-06-27
This is definitely one of the best books I have read this year. Once I started it I could not put it down. Bill Carter gives an excellent account of his personal journey that takes him into war-torn B-H, and tells a well-rounded story that obviously comes from the heart. No political grandstanding-- you can identify with the point of view of this normal, adventurous guy who has the courage (and initial naivety) to inject himself into a surreal world where people are trying to continue living the best they can in the midst of destruction and death. Fascinating account of his interaction with U2, and the resulting broadcasts on the world's stage of real human beings trapped inside the insanity of war. And mixed in is his own struggle with personal loss that leaves him empty but leads him into a situation that ultimately puts everything in perspective. He magnificently weaves all these elements together for an overall balanced, engaging narrative. After reading, I also watched Carter's Miss Sarajevo documentary which superbly complements the book.
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"Sam McCain is the kind of hero any small town could take to its heart."-Marilyn Stasio,
The New York Times Book Review
In America's heartland, Sam seeks justice for a black college student who's found dead in a car trunk at the drive-in, while thousands gather in the nation's capital for the March on Washington with civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
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The seventh Sam McCain adventure.......2007-08-13
Set against the backdrop of civil rights leader Martin Luther King's impending March on Washington, Fools Rush In finds lawyer/PI Sam McCain investigating the murders of suspected blackmailer Richie Neville and one of his alleged victims, David Leeds. Found together in a wooded area near Neville's studio, the two men are connected by some photos that Neville threatened to release to the press, photos of law student Leeds, a charismatic young black man, pursuing a romance with Lucy Williams, daughter of conservative white Senator Lloyd Williams (this being Black River Falls, Iowa, circa June 1963, the pictures are certain to negatively impact the staid Republican Senator's quest for reelection). McCain doggedly pursues the truth, discovering that his home town is even more insular and bigoted than he previously imagined.
Ed Gorman's seventh Sam McCain adventure (each installment bears the name of a popular period song as its title) displays all the positive attributes its predecessors possessed, namely Gorman's stripped down, not-a-word-wasted prose, his deft plotting, and his dead on characterization (all reasons why he's won the Shamus, the Spur, and the International Fiction Writers awards for his significant contributions to genre fiction). As with previous adventures, Gorman marries these attributes with subtle commentary on the social mores and historical figures of the era, providing a mirror which, while certainly reflective of the past, also provides a telling perspective on problems and issues which still face (plague?) us today.
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Rewarding job as a local doctor on Cape Cod? Check. Cute cottage of her very own? Check. Adorable puppy suitable for walks past attractive locals? Check! All she needs is for golden boy and former crush Joe Carpenter to notice her, and Millie will be set.
But perfection isn't as easy as it looks--especially when Sam Nickerson, a local policeman, is so distracting. Sure, he needs a friend after being dumped by Millie's fortune-hunting sister, but does she really need to enjoy his company that much? He is definitely not part of her master plan. But maybe it's time for Millie to start a new list…
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You Can't Miss This One!.......2007-09-29
Every woman should read this book! When I bought it and saw that it was the authors debut I figured it would just be another quick read for me and be forgotten within a couple of weeks. Far from it. This is a story that every woman can relate to, if not in the story line then in the emotions. So many times while reading this book I would think, "I've felt that or thought that but just wouldn't say it out loud." It's written in the first person so that you get involved with the character (Millie) to the point that you feel like her acomplishments are also your own. Even though it's a very realistic book you're laughing all the way through. I guess we never realize how funny our crazy thoughts are until heard from an outside point of view. I would recomend this book to anyone, what ever your reading preferences. You won't regret it and you'll leave it with a smile.
Charming and funny romantic comedy.......2007-03-18
Since her freshman year in high school, Millie Barnes has been head over heels for Joe Carpenter. A brainy and plain gal, she was all but ignored by Joe, in an adolescence that was filled with angst, unwanted baby fat, and acne. After stalking him for over a decade to find out his likes and dislikes, she's about to return to Cape Cod, and has a plan for landing her man. Coinciding with her return is the divorce of her older sister, who has relocated to New Jersey with her new man, so she consoles her former brother-in-law Sam and his son with meals and tries to set Sam up with her divorced friend.
Armed with a new body, new job as an intending physician at the local clinic, new wardrobe, and a funky new hairstyle, Millie does in fact snare her man. But is this Joe the same Joe she's idolized most of her life? As the two forge a relationship, Millie realizes something is missing. Will she follow her heart and attempt a chance at the man she truly loves?
Higgins first novel is a sweet and romantic comedy told from the protagonist's point of view, which makes for some funny anecdotes and reactions. The sibling rivalry between the seemingly perfect Trish is poignant (though Trish is a hard character to like). And the interactions between father and daughter ring so authentic, that I envisioned my own dad while reading the story. This one is a gem and not to be missed.
Wow!.......2007-02-23
As a librarian, I read a wide range of genres for the sake of reader's advisory. However, when I picked up Kristan Higgins' book from the new titles, I thought it would just be another typical "chic lit." Was I ever in for a surprise! While in bed with the flu, Fools Rush In brought me out of my self-imposed depths of misery with boughts of laughter from the great dialog, developed characters and all around great storyline.
Kudos to Kristan for an outstanding debut novel and I look forward to many more (even though I don't really read romance :) ).
New best author..........2006-12-23
What a great start for this wonderful author. I enjoy romantic novels, however, most of them are too perfect and everything just is so fantasized.
Well in this story about a woman having a crush on a man for over 15 years and stalking him for that long, but later finding that she doesnt really love him is clever.
What i like about this author and about this, her first book, is the fact that the first person character is written wonderfully. You really get to be in Millie Barnes' shoes. Also, the dialogue that she uses is so common and easy to understand. Higgins definitely writes her novels in language that everyone can relate to.
The fact that the main female character falls in love with her ex brother in law is a little weird, but pulls it off wonderfully nonetheless. Sam (Millie's ex brother in law) is portrayed as the best man in the world. He truly is a prince charming.
I definitely recommend this book if you like romantic novels and want a fresh twist to the regulars on Harlequin or the like. Can't wait for her next one..
What a tremendous book.......2006-12-13
Millie Barnes is about to get everything she ever dreamed of -- or is she? Sometimes what we think we want is not the best thing we could actually get.
As others before have mentioned, I'll be buying anything this author writes. She has the gift of being able to put her reader in her heroine's shoes, to root for that heroine, and write a book that's impossible to put down. I loved it!
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Fools Rush in
Anthea Turner
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A Must Read!!!.......2005-05-31
This book was so good. This is the first book that I've read of hers and I want to read more. Justine and Duncan are great characters that are real and down to earth. I, too, wish that I could find a man like him.
Where wise men fear to tread.......2002-06-07
Another great read by Gwen.
Justine was so devastated after she realized she had given permission for her child to be given away and was willing to do whatever it took to be with her child even work as a live in baby sitter but when she found that Duncan Banks had adopted her child and was the perfect father she wanted more than to be a baby sitter but his ultimate mate. Fate always has a funny way of doing things and this was no different. After realizing their passion for each other and what they were willing to endure to be with each other, they surged forward in their relationship and their love. After reading this one read Fools Rush In and read about Leah Banks, Wayne Roundtrees wife. Both romances are great.
Too slow.......2000-08-21
I've been a big fan of Gwynne Forster since reading her "Beyond Desire" novel. But this one just didn't hold my interest. The first couple of paragraphs dealing with her betraying husband drew me into the story but other than that, things were moving too slow and I wasn't able to finish it.
I have her latest Arabesque title and I look forward to a better story.
Everybody plays the fool sometime!.......2000-05-01
The main characters in this story had both been played for a fool by their spouses. Imagine being 8 months pregnant and finding out that your spouse had been having an affair, and has just died in a motel fire with his white mistress. Would you not mentally and emotionally freak out? The heroine of the book, Justine did just that...which leads her to doing something she would never have done under normal conditions---give her baby girl up for adoption. Once she was emotionally healed enough to go looking for her baby, she found not only her daughter, but the love of her life in Duncan, the man who had adopted her. Duncan had issues of his own, but it just made the story more interesting. A great read which I highly recommend.
I Loved It!.......2000-04-20
Justine and Duncan were truly made for each other in every sense of those words. Just like to peas in a pod! I loved the story line. Like how there were two love stories in one book. Wayne and Banks are lots of laughs. I really liked Banks' character, just love to see her in action. Much love to Ms Forster from one of your fans!
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- This book will leave you with a smile on your face!
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- Lightweight Cozy: "Fools Rush In" by Sunny Frazier
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Sunny, Frazier
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On a blazing July day in Central County, California, snitch Johnny Blue is murdered by a lethal heroin injection. Undercover narcotic detective James Wolfe, the operative who handled Blue, goes to the Sheriff's Department substation seeking ex-girlfriend Christy Bristol. In the past he ridiculed her hobby of casting horoscopes. Now he needs her expertise to catch the man he suspects is behind Blue's murder, a drug dealer named Lloyd Parr. Stuck on the lowest rung of law enforcement, Christy becomes first a victim, then a hero in the high-stakes game of narcotic trafficking. Through her eyes, the drug world is reduced to individual players, lost values and discarded dreams. The reality of what goes on in the fertile land of the San Joaquin Valley is far more disturbing than the Hollywood version of drug lords and a wealthy lifestyle fueled by drug money. In the drug world of the Valley, there are no winners. Only losers.
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Frazier has piqued my interest in astrology.......2007-08-21
Sunny Frazier has a worthy protagonist in Christy Bristol. Frazier blends Bristol's knowledge of law enforcement with reading the horoscopes of both villains and hot cops. I want more! I certainly hope I'll be seeing Rod Murietta again soon, too.
A Fast Read.......2007-02-24
And a fun read! Sunny Frazer gives a new twist on the resourcefulness and smarts of support staff. Her protagonist, Christy Bristol, is an office assistant at a County Sheriff's Department's substation. Christy's ex-boyfriend persuades her to help him catch a drug dealer. This leads to her being kidnapped by methamphetamine cookers because the head honcho believes in astrology. Using her wits, a bit of ESP, and her talents at reading the charts, she makes her time being kidnapped a page turning event.
This book will leave you with a smile on your face!.......2007-01-03
Sunny Frazier introduces Christy Bristol, a witty, smart astrologer, in Fools Rush In. Serious crimes, complicated relationships, and personal realizations are interwoven with beautiful scenery and a humorous touch that keeps the reader intrigued and entertained. The setting in Fools Rush In is so alive and vivid it almost becomes a character of its own as the reader is transported from the comfort of Christy's apartment to the dirty, rundown, large home of the drug dealer holding Christy captive for her astrological abilities to the rural setting where Christy realizes the gravity of the danger she faces. Although I've never really taken to the idea of astrology, Frazier's description of Christy writing the natal horoscopes made me want to have mine done. Frazier manages to humanize not only the law enforcement but also the criminals in her book creating a dimension to her characters is sometimes lacking in mysteries.
In the Stars for Sunny.......2006-12-24
Fools Rush In, Sunny Frazier's debut novel is a brisk and intriguing dive into the seedy life of methamphetamine labs and the drug dealers who run them.
Christy Bristol is a sheriff's department office assistant with an astrology hobby. Her ex-boyfriend asks her to cast a horoscope for a suspected murderer. Christy reluctantly agrees and soon finds herself kidnapped at gun point and held captive by the local meth cookers. She uses her wits, her charts, and her knowledge of the drug world to get out. But not before another death endangers her even more.
Frazier writes crisp action and keeps the pace moving along. The inside look at a meth cooker's life, the difficulty of obtaining pseudoephedrine, and the paranoia all ring true. Frazier is a former administrative assistant in a sheriff's narcotic enforcement unit.
Fools Rush In is set in the central San Joaquin Valley of California, dubbed the meth capital of the world. Frazier puts the reader in the middle of the valley in summer. You can see the vineyards hanging with plump grapes, the shimmering heat waves roiling off the pavement, and smell the dust. Thanks to Frazier's story, sweat will roll off your brow, even in the middle of winter.
Lightweight Cozy: "Fools Rush In" by Sunny Frazier.......2006-12-22
The heat is on in the San Joaquin Valley which includes the area around the small town of Kearny and its local law enforcement is feeling it. Not just in the terms of the summer weather but in terms of crime and the reports that are generated each time an incident occurs. For Office Assistant III Christy Bristol of the Sheriff's Department, it means more and more paperwork to process. The last thing she really needs is for her old boyfriend James "Wolfman" Wolfe showing up at work to see her.
Wolfman has recently been reassigned to the undercover narcotics unit and isn't paying her a social call. His snitch, Johnny Blue, is missing and most likely dead. Wolfman is trying to build a case against a major Methamphetamine dealer named Lloyd Parr. Without his snitch the case is in deep trouble and Wolfman is desperately trying a different angle. He wants Christy to do Parr's astrological chart. Astrology is important to Christy as she has the gift and appreciates its power. Astrology became a huge issue when Wolfman and Christy were dating and in large part, his lack of respect for it and ultimately her caused their relationship to collapse. Now six months after their breakup, Wolfman focused on his needs only, has waltzed back into her life and expects her to grant him a favor of doing Parr's horoscope. Not only does he want her to do it, he wants her to make up some stuff to go along with what she really sees to scare Parr.
Offended and disgusted, Christy refuses initially but eventually creates one and assists in the delivery to Parr. Her eight years of working in the Sherriff's Department as an office assistant never prepared her for being kidnapped by Parr's crew as he acts on her message from the stars.
This is an enjoyable lightweight cozy mystery that is far as it possibly could be from the Hollywood style image of wealthy drug dealers or the dark world of noir mystery. Flashy images, strings of vulgarities and obscenities, or detailed brutal murders are not the focus here and rarely will one encounter in fiction such well spoken drug dealers. This can not be considered a graphic read on any level and instead focuses on interpersonal relationships of characters and how lives are wasted in false pursuit of drugs and money.
As in her other works, author Sunny Frazier focuses more on the lives of the characters involved and as such, the novel turns on character development, or lack of same, as she illustrates that some characters, just like some people in real life, never had a chance to do anything different with their lives. While some characters never had a chance, her main character, Christy Bristol, finds out far more about herself after her week in captivity than she ever thought possible.
This enjoyable cozy style mystery doesn't follow the Hollywood or noir formats and as such is a read that works for readers of almost any age. The characters are complicated; the heroine is genuine and interesting as are the sections involving Astrology, and the story moves forward at a stead pace. The result is a good read for the start of a planned series and worthy of your consideration.
Kevin Tipple (copyright) 2006
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Faith of Fools: A Journal of the Klondike Gold Rush
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WOW.......2000-03-14
I was floored by this book. It is diary of a group of men traveling to the yukon in search of gold. I was amazed at the things that they went through. In our relatively easy modren life, It is good to read about what extremes people would go through in the old days. To say that they had a rough journey would be an understatement. I would recommend this to anyone who wants to get a feel for what it must have been like to ber part of the gold rush in the Yukon territory.
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- The Gregg Reference Manual
- Our Family Tree: An Evolution Story
- iPod & iTunes: Missing Manual, Second Edition
- Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity
- Marketing Management
- Now or Neverland: Peter Pan and the Myth of Eternal Youth : A Psychological Perspective on a Cultura
- Living & Eating
- Policies and Procedures Manual for Accounting and Financial Control
- Handbook of Agricultural Economics : Agricultural and Food Policy
- Men Giving Money, Women Yelling: Intersecting Stories
Stealing Time: Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and the Collapse of AOL Time Warner
Applied Mergers and Acquisitions (Wiley Finance)
There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere: The AOL Time Warner Debacle and the Quest for the Digital Future
Master of the Game: Steve Ross and the Creation of Time Warner
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