Flashback - Softcover

Siler, Jenny

Softcover

ISBN 10: 2070442217 ISBN 13: 9782070442218

Publisher: FOLIO, 2012

Synopsis

Discovered by a group of Benedictine nuns in a muddy ditch by the side of a French country road, Eve has only good American dentistry and a tattered Moroccan ferry ticket scribbled with Arabic letters to point to her identity. That, and a bullet wound to her brain that she miraculously survives, even as it destroys her memory. Plagued by horrific nightmares, reluctant to face the truth about her past, Eve makes a life for herself within the convent's walls. But when the nuns who have sheltered her for a year are brutally massacred and the one terrified survivor declares to Eve: "They came for you," Even realizes that, whoever she was in her past life, she had powerful enemies, enemies who still wish to harm her and those around her. She sets out for Morocco in a desperate attempt to retrace her steps, uncover her past, and figure out who's after her, and why--before it's too late.

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From the Back Cover

"With its exotic locales and with a heroine who resembles an action hero...this high-energy thriller is sure to please fans of the TV series 'Alias.'"
-"Booklist
WHAT DOES SHE REMEMBER?
The sisters of an isolated French convent have rescued an American woman suffering from a head wound and no memory of how she got there. Dubbed Eve, the only clues to her identity are a ticket from a Tangier ferry, and proof that that she has had a child. No one has reported her missing. No one has claimed her. But someone is following her...
WHERE CAN SHE RUN?
When the nuns are massacred by intruders, Eve flees for Tangier. Plagued by fear, Eve follows the tracks of a stranger waiting in the shadows of Marrakech. He's a link to her family, to a lover, and to a past far more dangerous than Eve imagines.
WHOM CAN SHE TRUST?
But unraveling the secrets of her past is only the beginning of a nightmare. The more Eve discovers, the more she has to fear. For one terrifying piece of the puzzle remains, locked in the darkness of her mind-and what Eve knows could be the death of her.
"Moving and satisfying...Siler's hard and spare prose shines like highly polished pebbles."
--"Chicago Tribune
"Siler darkens the lost-identity theme and transfers the action to exotic locations in Morocco, lending a Hitchcock-like sense of disorientation...that is thick with atmosphere."
--"New York Times Book Review

Review

..."consistently exciting and suspenseful tale of a young woman in search of her past.... There's plenty of slam-bang action, but it's Eve's slow discovery of who she really is that makes this story so worthwhile." - "San Francisco Chronicle"A fine stylist with a penchant for female protagonists in action-hero mode..." - "Houston Chronicle..."Eve is a winning character--and Siler's prose remains as bracing as in her earlier books." - "Seattle Post Intelligencer"Jenny Siler, an accomplished young writer who specializes in strong but alienated anti-heroines, has outdone herself in Flashback.." - "The Denver Post "There's no padding Siler's hard and spare prose, which often shines like highly polished pebbles...Flashback should make a fine Gwyneth Paltrow film--to be shown as a double feature with Matt Damon's "The Bourne Identity." -" Chicago Tribune"Tight prose and a quicksilver plot complete the package. Siler knows how to write an absorbing page-turner, and "Flashback is every bit as much fun as last. ("Shot)." -"Library Journal"Siler's latest and most fully realized heroine is an American woman known only as Eve... the moody beauty of Siler's style shines best at night." - "The New York Times Book Review"An air of lyrical melancholy hangs over the novel, as if a young John le Carre had rewritten "The Bourne Identity with a female protagonist. The plotting is deft, the characters believable and, in the end, Eve finds who she was, even if she remains unsure of what that means or what she will become." - "Publishers Weekly

Edition details

• Publisher: FOLIO
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 2070442217
• ISBN 13: 9782070442218
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: French
• Number of pages: 368