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Title:
Haven
Genre:
Fantasy
Mystery
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Series:
A Trial Of Blood And Steel: Book 4
Binding:
Paperback
Narrative:
Third Person
Type of Book:
Fiction
Number of Chapters:
22
Date Added:
2018-06-26 17:46:09
Synopsis:
Product Description:
Elizabeth Stride has settled on South Carolina’s Hilton Head Island to escape her past. Most of all, she wants to leave behind Martin Kessler – a man who will always own a piece of her soul. But his love is a continuing reminder of what she once was: "The Black Angel,” a ruthless and efficient assassin. A young girl is about to be kidnapped from an exclusive Hilton Head tennis club - a girl who unwittingly holds the key to a planned act of terrorism. By joining forces in her rescue, Elizabeth and Martin will put their fate in each other’s hands one last time and decide once and for all whether they must live together or apart. In doing so, they will be drawn into a violent struggle - a secret war of greed and fanaticism - from which there will be no haven.
Amazon.com Review:
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 The Shadow Box is available in paperback.
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
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews:
Maxim (The Shadow Box, 1996, etc.) offers a sturdy romantic thriller in which a couple of retired espionage agents realize that escaping their Cold War pasts may prove tougher than they reckoned. After a storied career, American Elizabeth Stride quits Israeli intelligence--which made her a terrifyingly efficient assassin after she endured near-death experiences at the hands of barbarous Arabs--in search of a stateside refuge. Soon after the sometime hit woman (known professionally as the Black Angel) settles on Hilton Head Island, she’s joined by Martin Kessler, a former Stasi stalwart who saved her bacon in Romania after the Berlin Wall came down. The upscale enclave proves something less than a sanctuary for the retired killer and her lighthearted East German lover (who misses the great game’s excitement) once they stumble on Cyril Pratt, a twisted bounty hunter who’s in the neighborhood to abduct an orphaned Muslim girl named Aisha Bandari. Elizabeth and Martin call on old skills to foil Pratt’s plan. In doing so, however, they’re drawn into a transnational conspiracy to supply Islamic terrorists with enhanced radiation devices of Russian manufacture, which could make target cities uninhabitable. At the heart of the intrigue are Aisha’s uncle, Kamal Bandari, a venal Egyptian pol who ordered her kidnapping, and Lawrence Tarrant, a mercenary arms-dealer kept under surveillance by agents of the US government. An impatient Bandari soon sets sail in an ocean-going yacht for Hilton Head to check on Aisha’s whereabouts and to give his villainous clients a chance to test their nuclear weapons. Followed by a flying squad of feds, Tarrant heads there as well. At the cost of his own life, the ex-Communist thwarts Bandari’s plot in a bloody climax, and a saddened Elizabeth is left to care for Aisha, who seems destined to thaw Elizabeth’s icy, world-weary reserve. Top-drawer entertainment with plenty of (some of it kinky) action that speeds the reader past the narrative’s more improbable events. (First printing of 100,000) -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
Review:
"Fast-paced and frightening...a thriller extraordinaire.” -- -- Marietta Journal "Top-drawer entertainment.” -- --Kirkus Review
About the Author:
John R. Maxim is the author of several critically acclaimed thrillers, including Haven and Mosaic, both available from Brilliance Audio, and other highly praised novels, including Time Out of Mind, Abel Baker Charlie, and the bestselling Bannerman series. He makes his home in Hilton Head, South Carolina.
Elizabeth Stride has settled on South Carolina’s Hilton Head Island to escape her past. Most of all, she wants to leave behind Martin Kessler – a man who will always own a piece of her soul. But his love is a continuing reminder of what she once was: "The Black Angel,” a ruthless and efficient assassin. A young girl is about to be kidnapped from an exclusive Hilton Head tennis club - a girl who unwittingly holds the key to a planned act of terrorism. By joining forces in her rescue, Elizabeth and Martin will put their fate in each other’s hands one last time and decide once and for all whether they must live together or apart. In doing so, they will be drawn into a violent struggle - a secret war of greed and fanaticism - from which there will be no haven.
Amazon.com Review:
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 The Shadow Box is available in paperback.
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
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews:
Maxim (The Shadow Box, 1996, etc.) offers a sturdy romantic thriller in which a couple of retired espionage agents realize that escaping their Cold War pasts may prove tougher than they reckoned. After a storied career, American Elizabeth Stride quits Israeli intelligence--which made her a terrifyingly efficient assassin after she endured near-death experiences at the hands of barbarous Arabs--in search of a stateside refuge. Soon after the sometime hit woman (known professionally as the Black Angel) settles on Hilton Head Island, she’s joined by Martin Kessler, a former Stasi stalwart who saved her bacon in Romania after the Berlin Wall came down. The upscale enclave proves something less than a sanctuary for the retired killer and her lighthearted East German lover (who misses the great game’s excitement) once they stumble on Cyril Pratt, a twisted bounty hunter who’s in the neighborhood to abduct an orphaned Muslim girl named Aisha Bandari. Elizabeth and Martin call on old skills to foil Pratt’s plan. In doing so, however, they’re drawn into a transnational conspiracy to supply Islamic terrorists with enhanced radiation devices of Russian manufacture, which could make target cities uninhabitable. At the heart of the intrigue are Aisha’s uncle, Kamal Bandari, a venal Egyptian pol who ordered her kidnapping, and Lawrence Tarrant, a mercenary arms-dealer kept under surveillance by agents of the US government. An impatient Bandari soon sets sail in an ocean-going yacht for Hilton Head to check on Aisha’s whereabouts and to give his villainous clients a chance to test their nuclear weapons. Followed by a flying squad of feds, Tarrant heads there as well. At the cost of his own life, the ex-Communist thwarts Bandari’s plot in a bloody climax, and a saddened Elizabeth is left to care for Aisha, who seems destined to thaw Elizabeth’s icy, world-weary reserve. Top-drawer entertainment with plenty of (some of it kinky) action that speeds the reader past the narrative’s more improbable events. (First printing of 100,000) -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
Review:
"Fast-paced and frightening...a thriller extraordinaire.” -- -- Marietta Journal "Top-drawer entertainment.” -- --Kirkus Review
About the Author:
John R. Maxim is the author of several critically acclaimed thrillers, including Haven and Mosaic, both available from Brilliance Audio, and other highly praised novels, including Time Out of Mind, Abel Baker Charlie, and the bestselling Bannerman series. He makes his home in Hilton Head, South Carolina.
Author:
Ruth Gruber
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Publisher:
Signet
Barcode:
9780451128652
Signed By:
Ruth Gruber
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Date Added:
2018-06-26 17:46:09
