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Suspicion Of Rage: A Gail Connor And Anthony Quintana Novel

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After a quickie marriage, Miami lawyers Gail Connor and Anthony Quintana plan to travel to Havana via Mexico so she can meet the Cuban branch of her new husband's family. They plan to stay at his sister Marta's house; she is married to General Ramirez Vega, a rising star in Castro's government. Anthony is also friends with political dissidents so he tries not to talk politics while he is there.

This trip proves impossible because before he leaves a government investigator wants Anthony to persuade his brother-in-law to defect; they want him to verify what Major Omar Cespedes Ruzi, a Cuban defector, told them when he arrived in the United States. Gail and Anthony find that General Garcia, Romero's boss, wants Anthony to find out what Cespedes told government officials and he won't let them return home until he gets some answers. While these events are transpiring, dissidents in an underground cell plans to assassinate General Vega and one of these rebels has a very special relationship to Anthony.

Unlike the previous books in this series, this novel takes place on Cuban soil and readers see how life is like for those who support the government and those who oppose it. Much against his will, Anthony is forced into the role of spy in order to keep America from invading Cuba. There is plenty of action in this romantic thriller but the heart of the story lies in Anthony's love for a Cuba that he was forced to leave when he was thirteen years old .SUSPICION OF RAGE is a fantastic thriller that will grab and keep reader interest.

Harriet Klausner

Here I thought I was buying a mystery...only to find the author using this book as a soapbox for Cuban history and politics.

I've found this series to be less enjoyable since it's morphed from the Gail Connor mysteries to the Gail Connor and Anthony Quintana mysteries to what I believe is now the Anthony Quintana mysteries. Gail seems to have become a supporting character in her own books as Mr. Perfect continues to zip around in his red cape, saving the world and all its people.

Aside from her character being minimized, Gail has gone from a fiesty indepedent lawyer to an annoying, harping shrew who whines and complains to and about Anthony constantly, but then forgets all about it as soon as he kisses her hand and calls her "bonboncita" (which is usually about when I throw up). Anthony is way too slick for my tastes -- I lived in Miami for 15 years, and having known many Anthonys, I can guarantee that this guy wouldn't give someone like Gail a second look, let alone marry her and put up with her garbage. And no one...I mean NO ONE...is as perfect as the author tries to make us believe Anthony is.

I was disappointed in the supporting cast in this story too. I didn't think any of the Cuban characters were fully developed and there were a lot of loose ends left hanging, particularly with Mario and Marta. I also thought the regular supporting cast was pretty useless to this story. The author would've been better off leaving them all at home and not wasting so much time on finding stuff for all these people to do.

While this book was suspenseful and well-written, I really didn't expect or want to read a political novel about Cuba and Cubans. Had I wanted that, I would've picked up a Carolina Aguilera-Garcia book.

I love Barbara Parker and can't wait for each book, so I was really disappointed to have purchased a Cuban history book instead of a legal thriller. I understand that the writer is passionate about Cuba and Cuban exiles, but this story was so perdictable and dull, she lost my sympathy early on. My guess is that anybody acting against Fidal Castro while in Cuba will always be in danger, so the unfolding events were no surprise.

Hopefully the next book will have both a legal case and Gail's family life or I'm thinking Parker's books go off my "must buy in hardcover" list.

This latest in Ms Parker's books is her tribute to her Cuban sympathies. Anthony and Gail take his and her children and her mother for a visit to Anthony's Cuban father and sister. Interesting tidbits here and there. Cuba is on the verge of change; Fidel Castro is almost 80. It will be interesting.

The story was, as usual. one tense moment after another. Anthony and Gail are typical lawyers: She has to know every little detail and he lies like a rug!!!!

I think Ms Parker caught the Latin emotions (and they are volatile) well. It's hard to put the book down. But I am hoping her next "Suspicion of......" will take place back home.

I bought this book because in the cover was written "money back guaranteed" of course I don't want my money back just because I read the book, and if you read a book you don't deserve your money back no matter if you liked it or not.

The main plot is so boring even if you can find it, but it's a difficult task to find it, and the end is the biggest fairy tale I ever read. In the other hand, as all Cuban's plot books, if you want to go to Cuba read this book instead of going to a travel agency.

I'll say to the publishes that don't be so sure about what they are guarantying. Don't waste your time and money in this one.

I have read all the books in this series and am am anxious for the next one, the combination of two attorneys with different backgrounds is a different setup. There is a little of everything suspense, family relations, love, murder etc.

Barbara Parker knows Miami!!! Having read all of her published works, I recommend any of her novels to mystery lovers. I had the pleasure of meeting her in South. Florida; what a gracious lady. Can't wait for more steam from Miami.

If you are expecting a Gail Connor, Anthony Quintana novel with legal twists and courtroom scenes, you are not going to find it in this book. Very much unlike the entire "Suspician of" series this is merely an adventure in Cuba and a bit of a travelogue that helped me to understand 21st century Cuba a lot better. I really enjoyed it and found the tension and suspense to be very good, while understanding the ambivalence of the Cuban people a lot better. I listened in Unabridged Audio. I really liked the time when Barbara Rosenblatt was reading the series - in this one (William Dufris) many of the spanish accents sounded alike and I did have a bit of trouble differenciating characters. All in all I really liked the book, as I will also enjoy a return to Miami.