To Benjamin Roan, the secret mission seems simple: save the life of the President of the United States. The president is dying of leukemia. With no close relatives, a bone marrow donor cannot be found. He is doomed. Then.a confession--He has a secret daughter, the result of a liaison when he was in college. He has had no contact with her since. His only hope is for Roan to find his daughter and bring her to Washington. But the mission must be kept secret. If she is not a match, the scandal of having an illegitimate child can be kept quiet. Also, there are people who want the President dead. If they knew Roan's mission, they would try to kill the girl. Roan's regrets begin the minute he meets the girl. She is gorgeous--and opinionated and suspicious. The regrets escalate when bad people begin trying to kill her--and him. And the regrets really get out of hand when he discovers he is falling in love. Now he not only has to save her life, he has to find a way to make her change her fear and resentment to love. It won't be easy. She told him: "I hate you. I hate your mother. I hate your father. I hate your dog. I even hate your cat, and I love cats." Can he change her mind? Can he save the President? All he has to do is keep her--and himself--alive.
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Murder by Proxy - A Must Read for Mystery Buffs,
This review is from: "MURDER BY PROXY" EPPIE Award Winner Thriller/Adventure (Paperback)
Murder By Proxy is the first book of Robert L. Hecker's that I have read. It was suspenseful from page 1 through the end. Each time you think you have it figured out, the story goes on and you have to figure it all out again. Its a must read if you like mystery and thrillers. I can't wait to read another of Hecker's books.
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Readers won't be disappointed in Hecker's latest effort!,
By Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: "MURDER BY PROXY" EPPIE Award Winner Thriller/Adventure (Paperback)
Robert Hecker is a Utah born boy who grew up in Long Beach, California. He spent his career writing radio and TV dramas, then morphed into writing documentaries and marketing films. His Air Force training, complete with medals for distinguished service, provided him with the background to cover military subjects. He is currently working on novels and screenplays.
Benjamin Roan runs a security company which has several government contracts. When a call comes in from the highest levels of elected officials, Roan travels to Washington D.C. where he comes face-to-face with a president who is dying of leukemia. The president and first lady never had children, but there is a "love child" who might be a match for the desperately needed donor for a bone marrow transplant. Roan quickly locates the lovely daughter in Cuba, but it seems that people in power have other ideas, such as killing both Roan and Lisa. In the midst of dodging the fearsome police officer "El Tigre" from Cuba, who is trying his best to impede the rest of their lives, Roan is so attracted to Lisa that his inner language constantly entertains the reader: "We used our hands to swing the inner tube so we faced the eastern shore, watching for the dark forms of docked ships. In the sky, a spangled brilliance of stars added to the light of the moon. Cradled as we were inside the inner tube, our sides pressed together, our derrieres submerged in warm water, my licentious hormones seized the moment. This would be the way it would feel to be together in a bathtub, except we wouldn't be wearing any clothes. It was almost that way now." Robert Hecker writes yummy action novels, and MURDER BY PROXY is no exception. He strings death-defying moments together so that the reader can't stop turning pages. His locations are exotic; his plot is full of action and conflict; the characters are steeped in sex appeal; and the tale is full of details that Hecker imparts due to his own varied experiences. MURDER BY PROXY is a barnstormer of a novel that is impossible to put down. Hecker really has a gift for suspense! Just when the reader things the characters are out of danger, another seemingly impossible obstacle is put in their path. Readers won't be disappointed in Hecker's latest effort! Shelley Glodowski Senior Reviewer
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I'm waiting for more by this author.,
By Huntress Reviews (United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: "MURDER BY PROXY" EPPIE Award Winner Thriller/Adventure (Paperback)
Benjamin Roan owns a small private investigation and security company and is quite shocked to be personally tapped by the critically-ill President of the United States (POTUS) for a secret, life-or-death mission. The President's condition is secret and Roan's mistake is to assume that the "life-or-death" in the assignment involves only that of the POTUS.
He is quickly swept into Cuba where he meets the object of his mission, a love-child from the POTUS's college days. It becomes obvious that there are more obstacles in their path than in the path of a real estate developer trying to cut down the Sequoyah National Forest to build a mall. One of the obstacles is his assignment, because she seems to hate everything about him, including "your cat, and I love cats." Will they live long enough to determine if the POTUS can be helped by this woman, about who he knows so little and who as so much anger towards him? **** I had recovered from Robert L. Hecker's The Angelic Prophecy and a subsequent stroll though the Book of Isaiah when Murder By Proxy arrives. To be honest, I figured I had Mr. Hecker pegged and the book would be deadly boring and the review a no-brainer...ladies & gentlemen, I was wrong. Robert Ludlum may write a lengthier book, but his works are on par with Murder By Proxy and not superior to it. Having missed the first Benjamin Roan book, perhaps there are some background issues that are in it that would have filled in my desire to better know this character, but that is me whining and not a major flaw of the book or the author. Murder By Proxy is fast-paced with witty and believable dialog. There are no James Bond-ish rescues and the plot is well thought out, although one bad guy is accursedly hard to defeat. Unlike many current novels, the man and the woman continue to allow sexual tension to build and it is not graphically consummated. That may be considered a minus for some readers, but I find imagination is a wonderful thing and the need to expose our base drives, merely to try and boast sales, isn't always good writing. Kudos to Robert Hecker for taking the high ground on this matter. Will Murder By Proxy be the second in a series of Benjamin Roan novels? Let's hope so and let's hope that Robert Hecker offers us many, many more literary surprises. I give Murder By Proxy a four (4) star rating and am waiting for the next novel from Mr. Hecker. **** Reviewed by Dr. Phil Rhyne for Huntress Reviews.
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