English journalist Frances Brett, abandoned by the mysterious Nicholas Marquand in Istanbul, finds herself drawn into the lives of a series of bizarre people as she investigates Nicholas' subsequent murder and mutilation
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Moody, a British mystery writer known for her paperback Penny Wanawake series, makes an inter-genre excursion in a novel that begins as a garden-variety intrigue and then unfolds into a puzzler of the most Byzantine sort. Young Fran Brett, a free-lance journalist, is certainly puzzled when Nicholas Marquend, the man she falls in love with during a six-month stay in Istanbul, disappears. Things get more bizarre still when, back in London, she learns that Nick was really a former army intelligence operative named Daniel Forrest, and that his gruesomely mangled body was recently found in the Romney marshes. So maybe, she decides, he loved her after all, which is why she sets out to figure out why he got deep-sixed. The trail leads her to Paris, where she meets an old school chum of Daniel's, Alexander Campion, the director of a medical aid organization called the Phoenix Foundation. There, she also realizes why someone wants her late father's files badly enough to break into her mother's home. It seems that Tom Brett, a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, was digging into the foundation before he, too, got iced. With the help of Philippe de Pierrey, another pal of Daniel's, Fran ferrets out the truth about the Phoenix Foundation--it's a front for an international terrorism cell, specializing in gun-running and political assassinations. But is Alexander the bad guy in charge--or is it someone else? To answer that question, Moody supplies one final twist to an already incomprehensibly tangled plot. Perhaps seasoned puzzle-mystery lovers will be amused; everyone else will throw up their hands and cry I give long before the other shoe drops. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
Moody, author of the Penny Wanawake mysteries, centers this entertaining but fragmented thriller around Frances Breet, the daughter of a French mother and a recently assassinated American journalist father. In Istanbul, Fran meets Nicholas Marquend, a mysterious and captivating British ex-soldier; the two begin to fall in love, but when Nick disappears, Fran assumes that he changed his mind about the relationship. Only when she returns to England does she learn that Nick, whose real name was Daniel Forrest, has been tortured and murdered. As Fran seeks to discover his killer and the secrets he hid from her, we hear about several people in his life, such as Philippe de Pierrey, Daniel's childhood friend; Sola, a beautiful model; and Alexander Campion, once a lonely and tormented schoolboy but now in change of a powerful charity. All the characters are connected in an intricate web that unfortunately contains many loose threads. With inconsistent leaps between time frames, implausible connections and unlikely coincidences, Moody weakens her colorful tale. Doubleday Book Club and Literary Guild featured alternates.
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