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A Wild and Lonely Place (1996)

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0446603287 (ISBN13: 9780446603287)
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A Wild And Lonely Place (1996) - Plot & Excerpts

#16 in the Sharon McCone series. Finalist 1996 Macavity Award for Best Novel. Sharon continues the dramatic sea change in her career started with Wolf in the Shadows (1993). She's left the All Souls Legal Cooperative, she and boyfriend Hy share a cottage on the California coast and she has soloed with her new pilot license. This time out she forms an uneasy alliance with security group RKI - encountered in Wolf in the Shadows. Wide ranging and very readable series entry.Sharon McCone series - A series of bombings at embassies, consulates and U.N. delegation offices in the U.S. over the last five years is the work of someone the feds and the San Francisco police call the Diplo-bomber. A $1-million reward has been offered, and Sharon signs on with the slick security office of RKI, where her boyfriend Hy Ripinski is loosely connected, to investigate. Recently targeted is the local consulate of Azad, a small Arab emirate; during an interview with the woman consul general, Sharon meets her granddaughter Habiba, whose isolated loneliness reminds Sharon of her own childhood. Unmet is Habiba's father, who disappeared years before, apparently after getting in gambling trouble. More bombings, a murder and a kidnapping lead Sharon to a small Caribbean island, a dramatic late-night rescue and then a desperate flight from Miami to California as she tries to stay a step ahead of the kidnappers. The Diplo-bomber case promises more violence and, not incidentally, craters the career of a policewoman friend before its resolution.

Marcia, Marcia, Marcia...oh how I love reading about the adventures of Sharon McCone. It's been too long since I sat down with Sharon and crew. I love her toughness and reasoning abilities. But I also love how situations get to her. I feel the real human emotion come through. These books keep getting better and better. This book was written in the early Nineties, so the technology is out of date. But it is fun to see how far we've come with computers, cell phones and the Internet. Looking forward to more adventures.

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How can I change myself into this woman? For the first time, I understand the urge of 20 year olds who are dressing up like Batman or Star Wars characters. Sigh.Now that Sharon McCone has her pilot's license, she has extended her reach. In this case she is involved in a serial bombing threat. A madman is setting bombs at certain diplomatic consulates around the U.S., and finally he is after a San Francisco embassy. McCone is called in when her boyfriend's company, RKI, is tasked with the responsibility of security for the Azad consulate, threatened by the bomber in a note. She notices immediately a lot of things wrong there, especially in seeing a little nine year old girl who appears neglected. Soon she is butting heads with Gage Renshaw, her boyfriend Hy Riponsky's business partner, and her temporary employer. One of the other members of the task force to find the bomber is a San Francisco detective, Joslyn Adah, who is also McCone's friend, but she seems to be cracking under unknown pressures. Hy is very sick with a tropical disease, and Mick, her nephew, is pushing McCone into computers, cell phones and BBS boards. Does McCone fold up and hide under the nearest rock?Read the book and find out!
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