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(More customer reviews)This mystery suspense novel is a page-turning delight from the very opening pages. With the invasion of the peace and quiet of computer-upgrade-day by a ditzy pregnant sister (Julia Hobbs) of an old college buddy, our hero (information agent Brandon Drake)is plunged into just the kind of contract he has carefully tried to avoid since getting out of the Private Eye business. The plot rips into high gear and just keeps going through all four hundred pages.
The Yosemite rock-climbing disappearance of Julia's husband, we learn early in the novel, wasn't an accident after all. And Drake's involvement with the investigation sends the case spinning through a deep and wicked web of high-tech start-ups and sleazy East LA strip bars.
The sensual themes heat up from the get-go, too, as the novel's cover art suggests. [The U.S. National Park Trust is said to have banned display of that cover in Yosemite bookstores and galleries, in spite of the fact that at least 50% of my male friends (and only about 10%of the women) didn't even recognize the female profile on the cover until it was pointed out to them by someone who DID recognize it ---- sort of a cover art Rohrschach test!]
The plot weaving is fascinating and relentless, full of great dialogue throughout, and some very touching exchanges between the main characters as they work their way through what becomes a horrendous ordeal of survival in order to sort out what really happened up on the mountain, and why.
Climbers will love it, mystery readers will love it, and with its very lovely romantic moments, just about everyone should find something special about this book. Great for a week's worth of bath tub soaking, or a weekend retreat. It is great entertainment: what I call "a fun read".
For its genre, I have to give it my highest recommendation!
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Investigator Brandon Drake has carved himself out a nice, profitable, comfortable niche as a high-tech information specialist.Until Julia Hobbs rings his doorbell.Suddenly, Brandy is back in the P. I. business with a vengeance.It was supposed to have looked like a rock climbing accident. And to everyone but Brandon Drake that was exactly how it looked. And the murderer might have pulled it off if Drake hadn't been part of the investigation.Missing husbands were not the usual kind of contract for Brandon Drake to take on, but the "damsel in distress" factor was something Brandy had never been able to resist. Especially when the lady in question was the frantic sister of an old college buddy. From the rock walls of the beautiful Yosemite valley to the sleaziest bars in LA, from the ruthless rivalries of the computer software industry to the brinkmanship of the rock climbing world, no one knows better than Drake that the proof he will need to reopen the police case is being guarded by someone who has already killed. Someone who, without the slightest hesitation, will kill again.
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