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Summary: Advance Praise for THE BETRAYAL by Sabin Willett
Review: "The Betrayal is a hard-charging, trust-no-one, gut grabber of a thriller. Sabin Willett keeps his story of deal makers and breakers zooming at a Concorde pace, plot zigging and zagging out of one dangerous hot zone into another. And in Louisa Shidler, he has created a rich, multi-layered player tough enough to make James Bond take a step back and soft enough to turn any man's eye. Willett's dialogue is full, rich, and politically on-the-money; the intrigue churns at a high level, at ease in the heart of Frederick Forsyth territory: and the pacing is jack-hammer fast. If you're looking for a great summer read, lay your money on The Betrayal. It's a sure bet." -- Lorenzo Carcaterra, author of SLEEPERS and APACHES"A thoughtful, intricate thriller packed with details that matter, and characters who reward the reader's attention. I liked it very much." Thomas Perry, author of SHADOW WOMAN
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Summary: Very Entertaining
Review: A great thriller with a lot of twists and turns. Entertaining enough to allow you to make the leaps of faith necessary to be engrossed in it. I loved The Deal as well. I can't wait for his next one.
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Summary: Fun and Sophisticated
Review: A quick-paced mystery about the misadventures of an arrogant US Trade Representative (high level bureaucrat) that assumes an intelligent reader. I read it while I was actually working with the USTR on a tariff issue.
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Summary: Fun and Sophisticated
Review: A quick-paced mystery about the misadventures of an arrogant US Trade Representative (high level bureaucrat) that assumes an intelligent reader. I read it while I was actually working with the USTR on a tariff issue.
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Summary: Do not hesitate to buy this book - a wonderful read
Review: A very intriguing Washington story -- could not put it down. Great imagination and good story line. Can't wait for his next one!
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Summary: From Kirkus Reviews, 6/1/98
Review: An inoffensive Washington bureaucrat refuses to play patsy for some high-level arms brokers -- only to bring down all the weight of their wrath and cunning. The chance discovery that she's been made the signatory on a highly illegal $50 million Swiss account -- proceeds skimmed, so it seems, from years of clandestine arms trading by all the wrong people -- sends Louisa Shidler ballistic, especially after she confronts her old mentor, Vice Presidential candidate Royall Stillwell, with her discovery only to have him accuse her of fraud and treason. In the blink of an eye, Louisa's arrested, and then, after she implausibly declines to implicate Stillwell in court, her daughter Isabel is kidnaped to make sure she never does. Even though Louisa manfully bites her lip to every government official who asks her story, it's obvious to all of them, from suspicious FBI agent Eugene Phillips to kindly Judge Helen Freegard, that she's lying. Something's got to give, and the something is Isabel, who escapes from her captors long enough to phone Louisa. With Isabel at least momentarily out from under the kidnapers' eyes, Louisa saws off the electronic monitoring device the feds have been using to keep her under house arrest and heads for the open road, and the most satisfying part of this lumpy triple-decker: her race to keep a rendezvous with Isabel before either of them can be caught or killed by their legion of well-connected enemies. Bullets fly, accomplices and co-conspirators get mowed down as fast as they pop up, and Willett barely has time for a sly plug of his first novel, the legal thriller The Deal (1996), before his heroine's back in D.C. trying to build a legal case against the shadowy killers who set her up. Tense action sequences; unexpectedly feisty heroine; dozens of secretly tape-recorded conversations; enough legal detail to keep lawyer-readers contentedly disagreeing for years.
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Summary: The evil side of Washington, DC
Review: Another winner from Sabin Willett. Great writing, great characters, great storyline. You want Louisa to succeed all the way in her quest to prove her innocence. This book will give you a great background on the TRUE inside Washington politics and make you wonder if things like this actually do happen. Something tells me that it does. This is a great weekend on the beach read with a pitcher of Long Island Iced Teas...get lost in this book!
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Summary: The evil side of Washington, DC
Review: Another winner from Sabin Willett. Great writing, great characters, great storyline. You want Louisa to succeed all the way in her quest to prove her innocence. This book will give you a great background on the TRUE inside Washington politics and make you wonder if things like this actually do happen. Something tells me that it does. This is a great weekend on the beach read with a pitcher of Long Island Iced Teas...get lost in this book!
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Summary: Zzzzzzzzzzz...ZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzz... Insomnia cure?
Review: Despite my best efforts to get involved with the characters and action of this book, I finally had to put it down somewhere around page 48. The best description for this book is TEDIOUS. It does not help that this book is written in the present tense, which makes the plot ridiculously seem as though every single point of the book is happening now, right this very minute. Best avoided.
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Summary: exciting plot and wonderful characters (even the evil ones)
Review: I could not put the book down. It's a great summer read, and more, as it explores character at a depth often lacking in a thriller. The added bonus is Willett's humor, which snakes its way into some unlikely places.
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