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Two Women

By: Brian Freemantle
Narrated by: Michael Goldstrom
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With eviction looming, St. Ives searches for a big payday and a rare book. Philip St. Ives has no love for New York's drafty, broken-down Adelphi Hotel, but he is in no mood to be evicted from it. His cash dwindling, he is happy to learn about a job that calls for his specific talents as a mediator between thieves and their victims. It sounds like the set-up to a bad joke: A thief, an insurance salesman, and the Library of Congress call Philip's lawyer to ask about a stolen copy of Pliny's Historia Naturalis. To find it, Philip will risk becoming history himself. The book was stolen on its way from the Library of Congress to California, and the detective guarding it vanished as well.

Mired in snow-choked Washington, DC, St. Ives must arrange for a pair of ransoms to avoid becoming a victim of book collectors who value a nice first edition over an investigator's life.

©2003 Brian Freemantle (P)2012 Audible, Inc. Crime Thrillers Suspense Thriller Thriller & Suspense Fiction Crime Thief New York

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The summary bears no relation to the book, but the book was far too depressing for me and the ending was so dark I needed a very stiff drink. Not what I was expecting or hoped for.

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Correct Blurb (the one shown against the title relates to another book!): John Carver is too good an accountant not to see the irregularity in his father-in-law’s files: three companies, all off shore, with balance sheets that don’t match the ones in the official records. Three companies that represent substantial investment by organized crime. When John confronts his father-in-law, George W. Northcote, the old man insists he has control of the situation, and that the firm is about to be extricated from its criminal association. A few days later, George is dead. His father-in-law’s creative accounting draws John into a knock-down, drag-out battle with the heads of the Five Families of the New York mafia. The battle moves quickly off the balance sheets and into the realm of flesh, blood, and death, and soon everyone John loves—including his wife and mistress—find themselves in the mob’s vengeful crosshairs.

My review:
Superb narration, calm, intense accentuating the drama with cold clarity. Mindbending as ever Freemantle enmeshes the listener in another intense puzzle, unravelling the pieces and laying out the tale for maximum enjoyment. Engage noodle, sit back, as it's almost impossible to be doing other things and not concentrating to follow the clews.

This is the 23rd book I've had by this author; this kind of fiction is exactly what tickles my fancy. Intense, dark in places, with intelligence and humour liberally sprinkled throughout.

There are some editing issues, in that the paragraph ends are not indicated by a several second break in the narration. The new subject/paragraph runs straight on.

No punches are pulled, not all endings are happy.

Stiff drink needed at the end.

SO ENJOYABLE AND SATISFYING

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