By Dawn's Early Light: A Novel

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Summary: The Handyman Strikes Again!
Review: An employee in an investmant house discover a shady investment
by her boss.She turns him into the SEC and a full blown scandal
erupts.Her boss is payed a visit by the villian in the Gatekeeper
the Handyman and commits suicide.There is even a deeper scandal
involving prominent and powerful figures in the power elite of the government. Sloane Ryder,the investment house employee is
hired by the GAO after being blackballed by Wall Street.She
discovers the scandal and begins an investigation.She discovers a
conspiracy to assassinate the President of the United States(the
widow of the Presidential contendor in Gatekeeper).Ryder is in for the fight of her life trying to expose the scandal and stop
the assassination plans of the Handyman.An exciting read.You will
enjoy this book.

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Summary: Best Political Thriller Since the Day of the Jackyl
Review: The Handyman crosses borders and oceans with little difficulty and seldom, if ever, leaves behind any witnesses. He has been hired to facilitate a plan to assassinate the first female president of the United States. The story opens with his trip to an orphanage in North Korea to select a child to be used as a human bomb. It moves to New York to Sloan Ryder, a super smart trader who discovers an insider-trading scheme. When she blows the whistle on her boss, she sets in motion a sequence of events that eventually uncover the plot to kill the president and lead her to the attention of the Handyman.

The suspense is exciting, and the books moves through a series of unexpected plots. ...AND the coverup that takes place could just as well be a new job for some actual character in Washington today.

It's a great read...a hard one to put down until the end which makes way for the next book. Hope it comes along soon.

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Summary: A Thrilling Plot to Assassinate the American President
Review: Thrillers don't get much more intense than this one. Sloane Ryder is a New York financial analyst. She stumbles across dirty financial dealing in a major corporation and is fired and blacklisted for reporting it to the SEC. She despairs of finding a job, but is noticed and hired by a secret division of the General Accounting Office. It has detected some disturbing happenings involving the Chinese and high officials in the US government. Soon, with the help of Secret Servicewomen, Holland Tylo and Hollis Fremont, whom Shelby readers will recognize from previous books, an incredible plot emerges. The Chinese government intends to kill the American president and use the confusion as cover to conquer Taiwan. But as Sloane's unit closes in on the American traitors, the Handyman, a professional assassin hired by the Chinese, murders them. The action moves ever-faster to a breathtaking climax. This is a genuine thriller. I usually can put any book aside, no matter how thrilling, until I have time to read again, but I couldn't stop reading this one. Shelby has given us a first-rate story.