Getaway
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3.7 • 19 Ratings
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
From the author of New York Times bestselling Rock Paper Tiger comes the most electrifying thriller of the summer.
Michelle Mason tells herself she’s on vacation. A brief stay in the Mexican resort town of Puerto Vallarta. It’s a chance to figure out her next move after the unexpected death of her financier husband, who’s left behind a scandal and a pile of debt.
When a good-looking man named Daniel approaches her on the beach, she decides: Why not? But the date doesn’t go as either of them planned. An assault on Daniel in her hotel room, switched cell phones, and an encounter with a “friend” of Daniel’s named Gary gets Michelle enmeshed in a covert operation involving drug runners, goons, and venture capitalists. Michelle quickly finds that running is not an option. If she’s not careful, she’ll and up buried in the town dump, with the rest of the trash. Now she needs to fight smart if she wants to survive her vacation
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Brackmann follows up her debut, Rock Paper Tiger, an Amazon Best Book of 2010, with a sinister tale of a vacation gone bad. After Michelle Mason's L.A. real estate husband dies suddenly and leaves her in the financial lurch, Michelle travels to Puerto Vallarta to unwind and take a break from her stateside woes. There she meets Daniel, a handsome private pilot who's part of Puerto Vallarta's thriving ex-pat community. Danny appears to be the perfect candidate for a vacation fling, until Michelle and Danny are attacked in her hotel room. When she tries to leave Mexico a few days later, she's stopped by police, who conveniently find cocaine in her bag. Bailed out by Gary, a fellow American and a so-called friend of Danny's, Michelle finds herself stuck in Mexico without a passport and forced to spy on Danny as she's drawn into a labyrinth of drug dealers and power struggles that crisscross borders. Puerto Vallarta provides a lush backdrop for Brackmann's richly drawn ex-pat world, which is as eccentric as it is dangerous.
Customer Reviews
Mexico, Margaritas, and Murder
Lots of folks go a little loco in Puerto Vallarta, land of sun, sand, tequila, and (if you’re a lucky woman in need of some self-esteem building), a one-night stand with a handsome, dangerous man.
Michelle Mason is that lucky woman. A new widow left disillusioned and penniless by her rat of a husband, she’s having one last fling on a vacation that had already been paid for before the SOB died and left her world in chaos. Or what she thought of as “chaos”, because she’s about to learn the REAL meaning of that word.
An accidental switch of cell phones with handsome ex-pat Daniel and suddenly Michelle is seeing the darker side of this vacation paradise. The side with quasi-official government men with guns, drug cartels, Mexican jails, bodies piling up around her, and secrets that can turn her into one of those dead bodies. Where do you turn when your passport has been confiscated, your family has been threatened, you’ve been thrown into jail, and the only man you can remotely trust is the one who got you into this in the first place?
I’ve been waiting anxiously for Ms. Brackmann’s newest book, after being so blown away by her debut, Rock Paper Tiger. GETAWAY is every bit as intense, real, and thrilling. Her real talent is in so realistically portraying a setting and then dropping a character that might just be you or me into this place. Then she twists the kaleidoscope and changes everything. She writes beautifully about the loveliness of a place, then unflinchingly turns over the rocks and shows us the horror that lies beneath. In this book, Michelle visits the dump in Puerto Vallarta (note: I believe this place is now closed and folks can no longer go there, but while writing the book, Ms. Brackmann visited the place. The sounds, the sites, the gut-wrenching odors, and the horror of children living in the squalor she writes so eloquently about are real).
My stomach churned as I followed the heroine into this nightmare. I kept asking myself what I—an ordinary middle class woman like Michelle—would do. I’d have been just as lost and horrified as Michelle. And I would hope that—like Michelle—I’d find the inner strength and gut instinct to claw my way out of the morass and survive.
In my review of her debut novel I called Ms. Brackmann “fierce”. She continues to prove me right.
Getaway
A total waste of time and money...