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Summary
Summary
Politics cost Joe Faroe his career, his freedom, and a woman who still haunts him, and ever since, Joe has worked outside the rules and politics of government as a kidnap specialist for a Manhattan-based, global business that concentrates on the shadow world where governments can t go. Then someone he called a friend dies while trying to kill him and Joe retires, sick of trying to save a world that doesn t want to be saved. When Catherine Silva, a respected judge with a past, comes to him, Joe s past and present collide, and he finds himself sucked back into the shadows, tracking a violent killer who holds the life of Catherine s son in his bloody hands."
Author Notes
Elizabeth Lowell is actually a pen name for the real person named Ann Charters Maxwell. Maxwell was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1944. She was educated at the University of California, Davis and the University of California, Riverside, where she received a B.A. in 1966. She married Evan Maxwell, a journalist, on September 4, 1966. They have published numerous novels together including The Silk Strategy, The Ruby, Steal the Sun, Redwood Empire, and The Golden Mountain.
Maxwell started her writing career in 1975 with the science fiction novel Change. She has written over 60 novels and one non-fiction book. The novels range from science fiction to historical fiction, from romance to mystery to suspense. She has written under numerous pen names including A. E. Maxwell, Annalise Sun, and Lowell Charters. In 1982, she began publishing romance novels as Elizabeth Lowell. She was awarded the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award in 1994, Romance Writers of America Best Historical Romance in 1994, and the Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994. Her title Beautiful Sacrifice made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2012.
(Bowker Author Biography)
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Library Journal Review
When federal judge Grace Silva discovers that her son is being held hostage in Mexico, she calls the only man with enough experience to get him out alive: Joe Faroe. Joe and Grace, and the shadowy St. Kilda consulting group, have less than 48 hours before the bullets start flying. Maria Tucci captures the very essence of Hector, the male chauvinist Mexican drug lord, complete with accent. In fact, all her accented voices are distinctive and memorable. Unfortunately, she is less successful with our American protagonists; she makes Grace sound far older than her mid-thirties, and Joe is too feminine to be leading-man material. Though Tucci's pacing keeps the tension building, her reading is not as effective as it should have been: Joe and Grace are not as appealing as their roles imply. This is still a good listen, but it could have been great.-Jodi L. Israel, MLS, Salt Lake City (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Excerpts
Excerpts
The Wrong Hostage Chapter One Southern California La Jolla Saturday morning The phone rang four times before Judge Grace Silva pulled her head out of the legal documents she was reviewing. Maybe it's Ted. Finally. It had been years since she'd cared about her husband -- newly ex-husband -- in any way but as the father of her child. And if there was a persistent personal sadness that she'd failed in marriage, well, she'd just have to live with it. She'd worked hard to make the divorce and all the legalities entailed as civilized and adult as possible. For Lane. But she was real tired of getting calls at all times of the day and night asking for Theodore Franklin. Just because he'd kept his legal address as the beach home they'd once shared didn't mean he actually lived with her. "Hello," Grace said. "Ah, señora ," said a man's voice. "This is Carlos Calderón. I would like to speak to your husband." Grace didn't bother to point out that Franklin was her ex. If Calderón wasn't close enough to Ted to know about the divorce, she had no reason to announce it. "Ted isn't here," she said briskly. And he hasn't been here in three weeks, which you damn well should know because you or one of your employees has called every day. "Have you tried his Wilshire office, his cell phone, and his Malibu condo?" Or his bimbo mistress? " Sí , yes, many times." "Is it something I can help you with?" Grace expected the same answer she'd gotten for the past three weeks -- a polite thanks but no thanks. Instead Calderón sighed and said, "Judge Silva, I am afraid you must come to Ensenada immediately." Her hand tightened on the phone. As a judge, she was accustomed to giving rather than taking orders. "Excuse me?" "It is your son, Lane." "What's wrong?" she asked quickly. "Is he in trouble? He's been so good for the -- " "It is not something to be discussed over the telephone. I will see you in two hours." "What's wrong?" she demanded. "Good-bye, Judge Silva." "Wait," she said. "Give me four hours. I don't know what traffic will be like at the border." "Three hours." The phone went dead. The Wrong Hostage . Copyright © by Elizabeth Lowell. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Available now wherever books are sold. Excerpted from The Wrong Hostage by Elizabeth Lowell All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.
