Eyes of the World [Mass Market Paperback]

Rob Palmer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 2008

As the first female president of the United States, Carolyn Connor is under constant intense scrutiny. If anyone discovers that her childhood friend Mike Stanbridge has become her lover, not just her marriage but her career could be ruined by the scandal. Their secret could be blown sky high when a woman close to the president is murdered. Worse yet, Mike is the main suspect. Someone clearly wants Mike to take the fall as more and more evidence seems to point his way. With political assassins trying to kill him and the FBI trying to arrest him, Mike will need to move fast if he wants to stay alive and find the truth behind the lies.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"A perfect read for the election year! . . . Rob Palmer's book [is] superlative. ...I cannot recommend this one highly enough! Magnificent!" -- Huntress Reviews

"You're gonna want to read this one! Hold on for an intricately plotted, wickedly smart trip through presidential politics." -- Fresh Fiction

"[T]oo good to put down, too suspenseful to keep reading. Personally, I recommend the former . . ..the plotting is great." -- Scribes World

From the Author

Washington insiders know where the bodies are buried. They also know how to avoid becoming a corpse themselves. These are the characters in Eyes of the World; part of the fun is seeing how they play the game.

Eyes of the World is a political thriller and a love story. One of the lovers is the most famous woman in the world - the President of the United States. Imagine the pressures: the loneliness and the lies. Can a love like that be worth all the suffering to keep it alive?

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 369 pages
• Publisher: Leisure Books (May 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0843956763
• ISBN-13: 978-0843956764
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,745,181 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars exciting thriller, April 26, 2008

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Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Eyes of the World (Mass Market Paperback)

The election for the next President of the United States is two weeks away, but appears to be a historical one. Carolyn "Lynnie" Connor is leading comfortably in all the major polls and looks ready to become the first female president. Her spouse former naval chaplain "Saint Devon" is a popular individual as he does missionary work around the world; currently the future First Man is in Africa. The only thing that could derail Lynnie's trip to the White House is a mega scandal. That possibility exists because of her affair with her childhood friend, who saved her life during a fire that killed his sister; her trysts with Michael "Mike" Stanbridge will not be forgiven by the voters as she is cuckolding her paragon of a husband.

Reverend Eve Tessmer has set up a "This Is Your Life" for Lynnie in her home town. She has arranged guest speakers to represent each phase in Lynnie's life, except for when she was in Arizona. Eve's friend Archibald "Archie" Pascoe takes some of the Arizona documents home to peruse in an effort to determine a suitable speaker. That same night someone kills Eve and takes her Arizona file except what Archie possesses. The police suspect Mike killed Eve. When someone tries to murder Archie, Mike knows he is the only target of the Feds for this attempted murder and an unknown assassin who he fears is working for a famous person he knows intimately.

With the obvious connections to the real election aside, this is an exciting thriller as a lone nobody becomes the focus of an assassin, the media, and law enforcement. Though somewhat over the top readers will enjoy the fast-paced EYES OF THE WORLD as Mike will remind the audience of Cary Grant's character psychiatrist Thorndike in NORTH BY NORTHWEST.

Harriet Klausner

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect read for the election year, April 30, 2008

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Gloria Almuina - See all my reviews

This review is from: Eyes of the World (Mass Market Paperback)

This book is incredibly suspenseful, as well as moving. In it, the first woman President is running for re-election, and her two biggest secrets are threatening to blow up in her face. One is the fact that Mike Stanbridge, her childhood friend, has become her lover. The other is even more explosive. People around her start to die, and Mike is "put in the frame." It's up to him to save his own life and the President's career (to say nothing of the country's stability), but it's hard to do while pursued by political assassins and the FBI. The plotting is exquisite and the pacing is terrifically fast (I finished it in a day; I just couldn't find a place to put it down.) I think the best things, though, may have been the characters and the love story. Hard to decide!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Perfect Read in a Presidential Election Year, June 15, 2008

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K. Brancato (New Jersey) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Eyes of the World (Mass Market Paperback)

This is the first book I've read by Rob Palmer. To be honest, I hadn't heard about him until I read he was Diana Gabaldon's (love Diana) brother-in-law. The book didn't catch me until about page 100 (my cut off page on any book I read -- if I don't like it by page 100 I don't pick it back up), but once the story developed I didn't want to put it down. I can't wait to read his first book which should arrive sometime this month.