Whistler's Angel [Import] [Hardcover]

John R. Maxim (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 416 pages
• Publisher: Piatkus Books (May 24, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0749905697
• ISBN-13: 978-0749905699
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)

More About the Author

John R. Maxim was born in Greenwich Village, NYC, educated at NY Jesuit Schools (Xavier and Fordham) played all the street sports and most team sports.
Comes from a family of cops and a few Feds. After school, took up flying, skydiving and dirt-track stock car racing until the Military decided it could do without him. Then went into marketing and advertising. Several awards. Rose to Senior VP at major New York Advertising agencies. Work involved a great deal of international travel. Major hobby back then was sailing.
Always wanted to write, however, and, one night on the bar car, decided to give it a year, succeed or fail. Sold first novel at age 41. Wrote 12 more plus one non-fiction, averaging a year and a half each. Translated into ten languages. Several were optioned for film or TV. Still waiting.
Took up skiing. Many trips to Switzerland and Colorado. With the kids gone, sold our Connecticut house and moved to Hilton Head Island with his beautiful wife, Christine, herself a champion sailor.

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars He's Done It Again!, March 7, 2001

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Thomas K. Mackinney (Folsom, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Whistler's Angel (Hardcover)

For you John R. Maxim fans, he's done it again with Whistler's Angel. Adam Whistler and his guardian angel, Claudia lead the reader through a suspenseful and realistic attempt to leave years of jaded government service with an insurance policy in the form of a damaging ledger purloined from his former boss.

Characters return from earlier novels initially giving you the thought that the "old" JRM was back but then revealing a "new" JRM with a cast of background players reflecting a little age, a little mellowness but the same "help out a friend or family" attitude so well done in his Bannerman series. Those readers enamored of Carla Benedict and Molly Farrell from earlier yarns will have a difficult time putting Whistler's Angel down.

JRM again brings his characters to Hilton Head, South Carolina where they mix with the local population and cause you to wish you lived down the street or around the corner. The marina, complete with local watering hole called Jump & Phil's and a bartender named Leslie will remind readers of another place and time and cause them to wonder if there really is such a place and person(s) on Hilton Head?

The dialog in his latest novel reflects Maxim's tremendous sense of humor and will keep you enthralled from chapter to chapter. His extraordinary narrative skill will cause the fan to go back and read JRM's other offerings and the first time Maxim reader to haunt the bookstores. A great example is his conversation between Whistler's father and Claudia's mother, the single parents of his main characters:

"Want to marry me, Kate?" "Ask me again in two years. That's if I haven't murdered you first." "Fair enough." "Will you let me redecorate? Add some tuches of my own?" "Ask me again in two years."

I'll have a hard time waiting for the further adventures of Whistler and his Angel.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Exciting espionafe thriller, February 15, 2001

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Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Whistler's Angel (Hardcover)

Being a chip off the old block once felt great to Adam Whistler who followed his distinguished father into the eerie world of covert operations. However, Adam no longer has a taste for the work and simply wants to quit. The problem is no one in his line of work just changes professions and lives long enough to earn a different retirement. Adam needs a special kind of life insurance, which he negotiates by robbing damning documents about the activities of his nasty boss, Felix Aubrey.

However, in the middle of his protective documents, Adam finds himself holding something more damning and dangerous than just a bit of minor blackmailing fluff he planned to use to keep his own life safe. He turns to his legendary dad who sends him to Claudia Geller for help. Aubrey begins a deadly game to regain the document, leaving Adam and company turning to the great Bannerman and his cohorts as allies in a war between covert professionals.

Best selling author John R. Maxim stretches the maximum acceptance levels of a daring plot by his readers and somehow his talent turns it into a fast-paced story line. The plot never slows down as Adam tries to expedite himself from the business only to land deeper inside its darkest cesspool. Felix seems too nasty to be human yet his machinations make the novel spin forward so that the reader does not care. Throw in Bannerman's return even if he is not the star in this action-packed novel, thereby insuring that WHISTLER'S ANGEL is espionage at its thrilling best.

Harriet Klausner

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WOW!!!!!, July 28, 2001

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Ann Marie Rupe (Warren, Michigan United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Whistler's Angel (Hardcover)

All of you Maxim readers are going to need afew more spaces on your "favorite characters" list. The new players Mr. Maxim has brought to us in Whistler's Angel are every bit as memorable as our old favorites from earlier Maxim books. Adam and his clever guardian angel Claudia, Whistler's father, the Twins, all marvelous new characters. And how delightful to run into some of our old Bannerman friends. Thank you Mr. Maxim for bringing us up to date with some of Bannerman's people. Was happy to hear that Paul and Susan now have a family. What do you Bannerman fans think Lesko had to say about that?? and can't you just picture the twins slipping behind the bar to give Billy a hand? Glad to see the Maxim "family" of characters enlarged. They will all get along just fine. Can't wait to see them in future books. If you have never read a Maxim try Whistler's Angel with acouple of warnings. Don't start it if you have other things you need to be doing because you will not be able to put it down and then be prepared to make several trips to your nearest book store because one Maxim is never enough! You will want to read them all. My only complaint with Mr. Maxim is that he could never write fast enough for me.