12 Drummers Drumming
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Publisher Description
"Chilling Suspense and heated passion—A brilliant debut." (Barbara Parker, Edgar-finalist author of Suspicion of Innocence)
Ten years after the Lockerbie explosion, a New York-bound flight falls out of the sky over Scotland and rips a hole in Casey Collins's heart. Her lover was on board that plane and the State Department specialist in the war on terror flies to Europe to discover who killed him.
Swiftly caught up in a twisted series of events that make her a suspect in the bombing, she becomes a fugitive whose only protection is a small band of skilled agents operating outside the law. A multi-leveled web of deception tightens around her, forcing her to rely on people she neither knows nor trusts . . . .
12 Drummers Drumming is "a thriller which will keep you on your toes . . . with a polish and flair that holds nothing back in the areas of terror, torture, and adventure, as well as in more tender worlds of love and loyalties." (National Public Radio). "A title to add to your short list of espionage stories with female protagonists." (Booklist)
Buy 12 Drummers Drumming today and start reading this fast-paced suspense series.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
An overambitious attempt to meld a post-Cold War spy thriller and a star-crossed romance, Deverell's debut introduces us to Kathryn "Casey" Collins, a foreign service officer who enjoys a blissful--if hardly predictable or safe--relationship with Stefan Krajewski, a former infiltrator of the Polish secret police who's long worked undercover for Danish intelligence. When, on the anniversary of the Lockerbie bombing, a flight Stefan may have taken explodes over the Atlantic, Casey doesn't know if her lover is dead or in hiding and goes to Denmark to investigate. Her snooping attracts the notice of the FBI and makes Casey herself a suspect in the bombing. Casey is forced to flee the country; when Stefan shows up alive, with an attractive female partner by his side, Casey must question how well she really knows her lover--even as she attempts to prove her innocence to the FBI by reeling in Kruger, a villainous, high-level former East German intelligence official. Deverell sets a number of promising story lines in motion: Stefan's shady background and mysterious parentage; Casey's status as a fugitive unsure who she can trust; and the suspense surrounding Kruger's nefarious schemes. It is disappointing that she doesn't linger long enough on any of these plot strands to generate compelling interest in them or in her characters.
