Review: Disregard the cover and enjoy the wonderful gripping story!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 23, 2012
Extended Description of Story via Smashwords.comJake Forrester is recruited by Harvey Baum, a Miami based business associate, to carry out an assignment for Cyrus Kroger, a reclusive billionaire, at his heavily guarded property in the Catskills. In a series of emails to his wife Sally, Jake describes his increasingly close friendship with the septuagenarian Kroger but Jake suddenly disappears and Baum says he is out of contact, visiting Kroger's operations in Central Africa. Shortly after Jake's disappearance Baum phones Sally to say Kroger has fallen ill and died and then, a month later, he phones again, this time to say Jake is back in Miami but in a clinic suffering from a nervous breakdown.Sally flies to Miami and brings Jake home. She notices there are no visas or stamps in his passport indicating a visit to Central Africa. Jake gradually returns to normal but his relationship with Sally does not regain its old warmth. Whatever happened in the month Jake disappeared brings him vast wealth but Sally is worried because she finds he is growing increasingly nervous and suspicious.Sally and Jake start getting used to being extremely rich. She finds she is leaving her old life and friends behind. They move into a Park Lane penthouse and there Sally makes a discovery that brings her whole world crashing down. She starts investigating and what she discovers makes her afraid for her life.My ThoughtsThis book was a minefield from the beginning, it was full of pitfalls and twists and turns that totally were too good to put down. The drama and suspense are offset by characters you will find easy to understand and in the case of Jake's friend Harvey easy to dislike as well! The main character Sally Forrester is a no-nonsense forthright woman with a charming bounder of a husband who manages to finally sail his ship into port so to speak making the couples dreams of wealth a reality. The only problem is how did her husband Jake come by his money, was it by fowl means or fair? What happened to Jake for a month? Why is he no longer the warm, fun-loving, charming man she married?The answer to these questions and more are found out over the course of her story, a story that takes the reader on a rather rambling madcap journey of almost a year where Sally tries to stay alive and culminating in a shocking ending that will change your mind about money being the end to all life's trials and troubles!I highly recommend this read to those of us like me who like to travel in our armchairs, Sally and Jake will take you on a few journeys to places that are beautiful and also places most of us will never visit in our life time.[ECopy of this book was provided by author in exchange for an honest review.]