George McGuire's Always takes readers on a full-throttle quest through intricate international intrigue, a gut-wrenching abduction, and unexpected love affairs. The winsome protagonist, Jim Devereux, tells the story of how an arms deal gone awry and his daughter's subsequent kidnapping throw him into the role of an unassuming action hero and vigilante detective. The lack of chapter divisions reflects the rapid pace of the novel. The dialogue is crisp and crackles with wit. In Devereaux's pursuit of the shadowy groups that abducted his daughter, he is beset by conflicted attractions, financial temptations, apparent dead-ends. Passions run high, but honor and integrity win the day. Ultimately he finds himself undertaking two quests, one deliberate and one unintentional - one to reunite his family, and one to hold onto the true love he had never expected to find. McGuire s prose gives just enough details to keep the characters vivid, their voices compelling, and their situations gripping. The plot introduces unconventional narrative devices such as a clairvoyant who helps to track down the villains but these are used sparingly, to move the plot along rather than as a facile deus ex machina ploy. Credibility remains intact. This is no dry detective fiction; it has a lot of heart. The hero thinks with his emotional instincts as much as with his head. Indeed, the novel could be read as a parable for our times of fraught international relations and individual frustrations in the face of forces beyond our control. Dr. Tyler Fisher Lecturer in Spanish, Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages University of Oxford, England
A historical romance. A love affair involving a 45-year-old American Army officer and a young German woman. Interwoven is a third person narration - a 'what if' version of Hitler's escape during the spring of 1945.
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Have you ever had questions about events in some ones life that affected you and you never ask? As we, Mariette and I were returning home from PA one evening and we had visited Barbara Bunting on the old farm, I ask Sis (that's what we call Mariette) "how did Dad find that farm". This 300 acre farm was in the middle of no where, about halfway between Springboro and Albion in rural PA. Sis, being the oldest of us 5 kids, surly would know about the move but she didn't. Another thing I had questions about was Mother and Dads meeting and their courtship in California where they were married. Again she had no idea. As you know, being young children, you were never interest in stuff like that and later you had your own group of friends and still not interested. Then you meet the love of your life and nothing else was important to you. Then kids, job and married life and time slips by and then you lose one parent and a short time later both are gone. They took all the life experiences and stories with them. I had questions for my Father and Mother that can never be answered by them so I have decided to write this book. Have my children ask me those questions, no. Do they want to sit and listen to me tell them my life's stories, no. Will they have questions when we are gone, most likely!
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