Shelter From The Storm [Paperback]

Michael Mewshaw (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Bluehen Books, 2003; First Edition edition (2003)
• ASIN: B000MDYJQ6
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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1.0 out of 5 stars waste of time, December 31, 2008

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C. Willenburg "voracious reader" (Missouri) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Shelter from the Storm (Paperback)

Don't waste your time reading this book. The author seemed more intent on dazzling the reader with his vocabulary than with character development. The plot was excellent, but it was lost in the verbiage.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Chaos, October 19, 2004

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John Bowes (Oxford, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Shelter from the Storm (Hardcover)

You won't want to visit the "stans", Few survive, those who do are changed beyond their belief. A thriller that is much more. Damnation and redemption, hate and love. A skilled writer shows you people and places, that, if you are lucky, you will never get to see.

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4.0 out of 5 stars engaging suspense thriller, March 26, 2003

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Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Shelter from the Storm (Hardcover)

In Central Asia, American researcher Kathryn Matthews takes in a "wolf" boy who just materialized from the nearby wilderness. The natives believe animals raised the lad as he behaves as such.

At about the same time, middle aged American Zack McClintock arrives in country seeking his missing son-in-law Zack after recently receiving a ransom note demanding one million-dollars. A second letter also arrived demanding instead of cash that Zack take a boy to America for treatment. The US State Department tells Zack to go home, but instead he goes deeper into the country escorted by the Russian Mafioso, Misha. Zack meets Kathryn and her "ward", the wolf boy, among other characters carving out a post Soviet enclave, but wonders where his in-law fits in this chaos.

SHELTER FROM THE STORM is an engaging suspense thriller that showcases a nameless post Soviet State country struggling to find its identity in a strange world. The story line is action-packed. However, the plot fails to fully grip the reader because Zack's mission seems not only out of character, but it is also never totally understood why he went overseas and in country for someone he apparently does not like. Still Michael Mewshaw is a colorful author whose latest tale will provide shelter for sub-genre fans from the storms of boredom.

Harriet Klausner