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Dead in Dubai (Lee Carruthers #2) Paperback – March 30, 2015
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- Print length284 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateMarch 30, 2015
- Dimensions5 x 0.71 x 8 inches
- ISBN-10099109123X
- ISBN-13978-0991091232
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"A female sleuth, International diamond trade, spy v. spy thriller, served up with wry wit and a lot of action! Entertaining!" Chanticleer Book Reviews
"This is a spy thriller filled with cross, double cross and triple cross. I haven't read a good spy thriller where you cannot take anything at face value in a real long time." VicG
"The plot is like a pretzel with its twists and turns." Richard Lang
"Dead in Dubai kicks off with a bullet, a near miss, and ends with four: Tears came to my eyes but they didn't spoil my aim. I shot him four times."D. J. Adamson
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- Publisher : Artemis Hunter Press; 1st edition (March 30, 2015)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 284 pages
- ISBN-10 : 099109123X
- ISBN-13 : 978-0991091232
- Item Weight : 10.9 ounces
- Dimensions : 5 x 0.71 x 8 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #8,276,005 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #25,236 in Espionage Thrillers (Books)
- #2,713,541 in Literature & Fiction (Books)
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About the authors
MARILYNN LAREW is a historian who has published in such fields as American colonial and architectural history, Vietnamese military history, and terrorism, and has taught courses in each of them in the University of Maryland System.
She has lived in seven states and two foreign countries, so she has always been interested in different cultures and different places. Being the “new kid” in so many places, she has always had to adjust quickly. Reading helped her deal with that, and her library card has often been her best friend.
She has always liked to write, but the idea of writing fiction didn’t occur to her until after she finished her PhD in history. Everybody who goes through that grueling program swears to write a book revealing how awful it is. Marilynn wrote a hard-boiled detective story with a female protagonist. It almost sold, but when it didn’t, she focused on her teaching and research. Perhaps her most interesting scholarly publication is about 300BC Vietnamese military history.
It was only after she retired from teaching that she was able to return to writing fiction. The two volumes in the Lee Carruthers series are the result. Her protagonist is still female, but perhaps she is not so hard-boiled. Lee Carruthers is a CIA analyst who has a conflicted relationship with the Agency. She is often sent where no analyst goes, and she has the scars to prove it – one from a 9 mm. bullet and three knife cuts. She keeps trying to quit, but the Agency keeps coming back like a song.
There are two more Lee Carruthers thrillers in the pipeline, and she is currently working on a third book in which the protagonist is a medium-boiled female private eye.
She writes thrillers because she likes to read them. She also likes to read Vietnamese and Chinese history and military history of all flavors.
She lives with her husband in a 200-year-old brick farmhouse on the Mason-Dixon Line in southern Pennsylvania. She belongs to the Sisters in Crime, the Guppies, and the Chinese History Military Group.
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Larew has found a comfort zone in describing exotic settings, and her perspicacity for honing in on minute details gives her work a sense of authenticity. Through the eyes of her intrepid, intelligent heroine, we are treated to an insider’s view of locales like Dubai and Istanbul.
Employing her wry wit (“I disapprove of assassination, particularly my own”), Carruthers, a woman of a certain age (“my long brown hair had a few strands of silver”) is looking for a dead man. After quitting the CIA and vowing she wouldn’t go to Dubai to look for CIA operative George Branson, she is inveigled into doing just that by the appeals of Branson’s wife Cynthia, and possibly equally, by the little brass key that Cynthia gives her. Figuring out what that key unlocks will consume Carruthers; finding out why Cynthia plunges off a balcony to her death, and others will die while the hunt is on, will provoke far more troubling questions.
Carruthers, a sort of female Bond, can identify a person’s borough of origin by his accent, and tell whether a man is an American or English by the way he takes his whiskey—with or without ice. She knows where to get the best pastry, what wine to order, and in which Islamic enclave she can walk around without a head covering. She bribes passport control agents and befriends charming crooks. And she’s tough, always carrying a Glock, with a knife in a sheath on her leg. She goes through several weapons in the course of this story, and uses a particular firearm to good effect occasioning one of the book’s better zingers: “Tears came to my eyes but they didn’t spoil my aim.”
Carruthers is a person of principle, so when she gets caught up in a spy vs. spy morass, she keeps her own counsel and tries to do the right thing, though with the CIA and the Russian mafiya trying to outfox each other, she knows she may be seen as expendable. In the end, she has her ethics intact, a small bag of rough diamonds as compensation for her troubles, and some disturbing conclusions about who George Branson was, or is?—and who’s playing footsy with whom under the big table.
In an age when national, ethnic and political identities and loyalties have blurred the lens of spycraft, Larew’s heroine is right up to speed. And if the story line seems at times to move too fast and somewhat jerkily, it’s also true that there are few if any lulls in the action. Still, some readers may find the wrap-up final chapter rather mechanical, and may wonder why Carruthers, who keeps protesting that she quit the CIA in order not to be sent on dangerous assignments, hops on board for another missing-person case on the last page. But lucky for Larew’s readers that Carruthers accepts despite her better judgement.
A sequel seems to be brewing that may perhaps reveal a softer side of Lee Carruthers. In this story there is a hint, but just: someone named Kemel, and a bloodstained pearl.
Larew has built up steam with her fascinating femme-sometimes-fatale protagonist and her writer’s grip on the subtleties of international intrigue and double crossings that ratchets up the race against time in this spy vs. spy thriller.
Another entertaining book by Marilynn Larew. Lee Carruthers not only knows how to track the financial threads of international terror and criminal networks, but she wields the edged weapon needed to sever those threads. She's also handy with the firearms needed to ultimately deal with the web spinners.
Fun read. Who knew analysts were so tough?
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