Eyes of the World
Non-series
Rob
Palmer
Dorchester (Mass Market Paperback)
ISBN-10: 0-8439-5676-3 (0843956763)
ISBN-13: 978-0-8439-5676-4 (9780843956764)
Publication Date: April 2008
List Price: $7.99
Synopsis (from
the publisher): Mike Stanbridge, a Florida lawyer, has been friends
with Lynnie Connor since childhood. Lynnie, always driven, always a
risk taker, has risen to be president of the United States. Their
friendship is common knowledge; their long-standing love affair is the
most carefully guarded secret of their lives.
It is the campaign season, and Lynnie is running hard for reelection.
Any scandal could bring her career crashing down.
Trouble starts when a woman is murdered in upstate New York, in the
town where Mike and Lynnie grew up. The dead woman knew more about
Lynnie than anyone—except, perhaps, Mike. Evidence indicates
someone close to Lynnie may have been the killer. The police look
deeper and tie Mike to the scene. He's suddenly the number-one suspect.
With the clock ticking on the election, Mike must find the real
murderer. That means digging into Lynnie's political connections and,
ultimately, into her past. The clues lead him on a high-speed run
across the country.
Mike isn't the only one in the hunt. The police, the FBI, a tight-knit
squad of assassins—they all are after him. The circle slips
tighter with every step closer to the truth. And always Mike is pursued
by questions: How well does he really know Lynnie? How much can he
trust her?
Review:
A murder investigation complicates the re-election campaign of
America's first woman President in Eyes
of the World, a thoroughly entertaining and absorbing
political thriller by Rob Palmer.
A "This is Your Life" birthday party is being planned in Blaine, New
York, the hometown of President Carolyn "Lynnie" Connor. In charge of
the festivities, 73-year-old Reverend Eve Tessmer had scheduled
forty-three speakers, one for each year of Lynnie's life. Although
Lynnie had lived in Blaine since she was a toddler, she was actually
born on a ranch in Arizona near the border with Mexico. Eve wanted a
speaker to attend and tell the story of Lynnie's birth. But she could
not locate any one who was willing to talk to her about it. Whenever
she talked to anyone, she was always referred to someone else. Eve
decided to do a search into Lynnie's ancestry, but before she could get
very far, she was murdered, her death made to look like suicide. Her
neighbor and close friend, Archie Pascoe found her on her bed, shot in
her head with the gun in her hand. In her other hand he found a wadded
up slip of paper with the name and phone number of Mike Stanbridge,
Attorney-at-Law, written on it, together with some unreadable words.
Because he knew suicide was not an option for Eve, he took the gun and
the paper. Before leaving her room he looked around her desk noting
that a folder for Arizona was missing from among the information
folders she had for the party. At a memorial service for Eve, Archie
meets up with Mike and together they decide to continue the search that
Eve had begun.
Their involvement, however, gets the attention of someone as false
clues are planted, framing Mike for Eve's murder. Now the two men are
not only searching for the reasons someone might have wanted to kill
Eve, but are trying to stay ahead of the police and FBI, and, it turns
out, the very criminals who actually murdered Eve. Mike feels
sure that someone in the government must be involved in this conspiracy
but who would want the information so badly that they would condone
these men to kill, injure and torture to find the secrets that lay in
Arizona? Would Lynnie's political opposition be so bold? If so, why? If
it wasn't the opposition, was it someone in Lynnie's own camp? Mike and
Archie are in uncivilized country in Arizona, and the men after them
seemed just as uncivilized. The election was only a few weeks away;
Archie and Mike wondered if they could stay alive long enough to cast
their votes.
Eyes of the World
is an exceptionally well written and plotted novel. The characters are
richly developed, from Mike and Archie and Lynnie to the leader of the
clan of criminals chasing Mike and even to the one person who knows the
secret everyone is looking for. In the midst of the madness and mayhem,
the author adds to great effect a humorous camaraderie between
Mike and Archie. This is a terrific novel, and is highly recommended.
Special thanks to guest reviewer Betty of The Betz Review for contributing her review of Eyes of the World and to Book Trends for providing a copy of the book for this review.
Review Copyright © 2008 — Hidden Staircase Mystery Books — All Rights Reserved.
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Location(s) referenced: New York, Arizona.