"Action packed thriller is hard to put down"

Intriguing, intense and action packed are the first words that come to mind when describing this book.  Gabe Jame's family has found him, and he can't do anything about it.  Gabe James is actually James Gabriel Tremayne, ex DEA agent, husband to the daughter of a gangster, and son of another notorious gangster.  Not only has James' family found him, they have kidnapped and drugged him in order to bring him back under their control.  Once under their control they use the threat of killing his new wife to keep him that way. 

For three years James had been able to elude his family and wife.  A family that for the most part hated him, and a wife that wanted to control him.  During that three years James had changed his name, met a woman he fell in love with and married, and had started a whole new life away from them all.  One day his wife found a trunk in the attic with some newspaper clippings and some other things.  Things that made her investigate and start making some phone calls.  That's when everything came to and end.  The call was traced and James' family sent some of their goons to bring him back. 

Once James' was brought back his family had him committed to a private mental hospital and had plastic surgery done on his face in order to hide his identity.  James' father has always hated him so has his sister and older brother.  They considered him weak and a liability.  The only ones of his family that cared for him were his mother and other brother Patrick, and they were too afraid of his father to help him. 

James' family thought they had finally gotten James under control.  They had him in a place where they could torture him to their hearts content, his face had been changed so he was unrecognizable and he was under an unknown name.  Who could find him, and more so who would care?  What the family hadn't counted on was that his wife would still love him and his friends weren't going to give up until they had found him.  James' friends put their own lives in danger to find and try and help James.  What they found was definitely not what they had expected. 

I enjoyed this book very much.  I found myself reading faster and faster just to find out what would happen next.  The loyalty of James' friends and the continuing love of his wife after all that had happened was touching.  I felt the ending fit the crimes.  This book is another credit to Charlotte Boyett-Compo's list of excellent books. 

Carol Castellanos / May, 2000
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Review is based on the e-book release: May 15, 2000 / Dark Star Publications; ISBN: 1929034644

Reviewed by PNR Group Member
Posted August 21, 2002