Anonymous Sender - Hardcover

Mcdowell, Michael S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0842025898 ISBN 13: 9780842025898

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1996

Synopsis

The Story Unfolds: A beautiful young woman is found dead of a cocaine overdose. An embittered lover vows vengeance on the men who brutally shot his fiancee. The Russian mafia has its finger on the world's most deadly substance. And the lives of millions of U.S. citizens are in jeopardy.
Little did Jake suspect that the innocent-looking package from East Coast Nautical Wares contained a much more dangerous cargo than the fishing lures he had ordered. This mistakenly delivered shipment starts a cataclysm of events that spans the globe: from a sleepy South Carolina town to cocaine factories in Colombia to the Russian mafia-owned warehouses in Vladivostok to the FBI and the CIA. Frighteningly realistic, this story of international terrorism and world security in the Information Age will have you on the edge of your seat.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

It looks like Abbeville isn't the only publisher taking an unexpected plunge into fiction this fall season (see Small Worlds, Forecasts, July 29). Now Scholarly Resources, which specializes in reference and genealogy titles, is bringing out its first novel, an action thriller that provides brisk but modest entertainment. Debut novelist and former Navy officer McDowell lays out a 145-chapter plot that, in the manner of Clancy, traces the intersecting paths of myriad stories and characters, including FBI and CIA agents, Russian mobsters, drug dealers, a big-city homicide cop retired to a small town, several very rich and/or powerful men and a murderous but otherwise virtuous woman. Central to the plot, which spans three decades, are the trials of young Jake Weichert, who in 1986 settles down in Fox County, S.C., where he romances a beautician. Her violent fate, as well as that of another young woman killed by a cocaine overdose, spurs the quick-paced tale. McDowell's characters are only serviceable, and his prose barely that. Plotting is the thing here, however, and readers will enjoy the skill and ingenuity with which McDowell pieces together his intricate jigsaw puzzle of a tale.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal:

Fleeing a mysterious past, Jake finds himself in rural Fox County, South Carolina. There he settles in to run a bait-and-tackle shop and falls in love with beautiful, red-haired Diana. All goes well until Jake receives a package intended for someone else, someone who wants it back badly enough to kill for it. Jake finds himself entangled in a conspiracy large enough to have global impact that involves the death of a powerful man's daughter, the downfall of a prominent politician, the Russian mafia, and Colombian drug dealers. McDowell delivers solid entertainment and spiraling action in this page-turning debut novel. With enough characters and crisscrossing plotlines to fuel a daytime soap opera, this thriller is sure to lure and hook readers. A good buy for all public libraries, especially where spy thrillers are popular.?Lori Dunn, Montgomery Cty. P. L., Troy, N.C.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0842025898
• ISBN 13: 9780842025898
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 349