The Casanova embrace [Hardcover]

Warren Adler (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1978

A charismatic South American Diplomat recruits three Washington women to engage in a bombing plot to kill a political rival. Hungry for the man's sexual favor, the women allow themselves to be manipulated and unwittingly enter into the diplomat's bizarre, destructive and lethal plot. When the women discover each other and learn how they have been duped, they become enraged. Overcoming their jealousy toward each other, they band together to destroy their ruthless lover.

This highly praised erotic thriller is explicit and explores the raw power of sexuality and desire.

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Editorial Reviews

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A seductive South American Diplomat recruits three Washington women to engage in international terrorism. Unaware of the consequences and greedy for the man's erotic favor, the women allow themselves to be manipulated and unwittingly enter into the diplomat's bizarre, devious, and destructive plot. When the women discover each other and learn how they have been duped by their need for erotic fulfillment, they become enraged. Overcoming their jealousy toward each other, they band together to destroy their ruthless lover. This is an explicit, erotic thriller, and not for the faint of heart. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

From the Back Cover

Through the power of his sexuality, a South American Diplomat recruits three Washington women to engage in international terrorism. Unaware of the consequences and greedy for the man's erotic favor, they willingly and eagerly allow themselves to be manipulated. Unknown to each other, the women unwittingly enter into the man's bizarre, devious, and destructive plot. When they discover how they have been duped by their need for erotic fulfillment, they become enraged. Overcoming their jealousy toward each other, they band together to destroy their ruthless lover. This is an erotic thriller of deep sexual overtones and explicit descriptions. It is not for the faint of heart. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 383 pages
• Publisher: Putnam; 1St Edition edition (1978)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0399121072
• ISBN-13: 978-0399121074
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.9 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,855,619 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Warren Adler is a world-renowned novelist, short story writer and playwright. His 32 novels and story collections have been translated into more than 25 languages and two of his novels, The War of the Roses and Random Hearts, have been made into enormously popular movies, shown continually throughout the world.

Three short stories from his acclaimed collection, The Sunset Gang, have been adapted as a trilogy and shown repeatedly on the Public Television network.

Mr. Adler's blogs appear regularly in the Huffington Post and other sites throughout the world and his short stories appear in numerous anthologies.

Mr. Adler is a pioneer in electronic publishing. He was one of the first authors to acquire his complete backlist and to convert his entire library to digital publishing formats.

A product of the New York public school system, Mr. Adler graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School and New York University, where he majored in English literature. In 2009, he was honored by being chosen "Alumni of the Year" at NYU's School of Arts and Science. He has taught novel writing at honors seminars at NYU.

After graduating from New York University with a degree in English literature, Mr. Adler worked for the New York Daily News before becoming Editor of the Queens Post, a prize winning weekly newspaper on Long Island. His column, "Pepper on the Side," became a staple of a number of newspapers in the country.

During the Korean War, after basic training, he was recruited by Armed Forces Press Service to serve in the Pentagon as the only Washington Correspondent for the service. His Washington by-line went all over the world and was published in every publication put out by the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force and Coast Guard.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Oversexed and characters that are unsympathetic ruin the story..., January 3, 2007

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This review is from: The Casanova Embrace (Paperback)

Warren Adler's "Casanova Embrace" is an overdone and oversexed book about 3 women and their lover, a Chilean in exile. At the beginning of the book, Eduardo the Chilean, is killed in an explosion, and a CIA man tries to piece together the who and whys of the murder. On the way, we meet three women that bore us to tears, and by the time we get to the part where they know they've been had, we don't care.