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Richard Setlowe The Black Sea: A Novel
HarperTorch 20000701 0061014257 / 9780061014253 MM Very Good
0061014257 From Library Journal It's not safe to go anywhere these days. Consider the plight of Dr. Maggi Chancellor, an Asian studies specialist enlisted as a guest lecturer aboard a Soviet luxury liner with an international passenger list. Hardly has the ship steamed into the Strait of Singapore when it is hijacked by pirates led by a messianic leader. While the great world powers search in vain for the missing vessel, the captain and crew of a lone American warship devise ingenious rescue strategies, and Maggi struggles to intercede between captors and captives. Setlowe is a fluent and accomplished tale-spinner, unafraid to include some charmless types among his characters. The action is fast-moving, the setting exotic, and the background painlessly instructive. An intriguing glimpse into an environment not yet picked over by thriller writers, The Black Sea is a sure-fire winner for popular fiction shelves. - Elsa Pendleton, Boeing Computer Support Svces., Ridgecrest, Cal. Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Kirkus Reviews Malayan terrorists seize and hide a Soviet cruise ship and its cargo of rich Americans, among whom is the former secretary of state, in an ingenious thriller by the author of The Experiment (1980) and The Haunting of Suzanna Blackwell (1984). Arms for hostages is the deal proposed by Tengku Haji Azhar, the handsome, charismatic Malayan who--thanks to the encouragement of his smarter but uglier cousin and co-plotter--believes he is just the man to lead a Muslim political renaissance in southern Asia and Oceania. The cousins have recruited a gang of Malaccan pirates and, with very little trouble, seized The Black Sea, a posh new Russian liner, then hidden the ship in an uncharted jungle river just a day after its departure from Singapore. Tengku gets the attention of the Singaporean, American, and Soviet governments with the delivery of a recently detached head of a crew member and a shopping list of weapons the terrorists would like to have delivered in return for not detaching more. With a fresh Soviet or American head arriving every day in Singapore, the three governments feel a bit of pressure to do something. Working for the Americans are the very capable captain and crew of the U.S.S. Decatur, a frigate operating in the area, and Mr. Yee, a very cool and rather mysterious aide to the president of Singapore. Time is working against them--as are the hungry local crocodiles and the rising hysteria of the passengers. Fortunately for everybody, one of the ship's tour guides is Maggi Chancellor, a pretty American who speaks the terrorists' language and who has caught the eye of Tengku. Ms. Chancellor has no intention of spending her life in the jungle.... Great fun. Fresh gimmicks and scenery skillfully assembled in a very slick package. Never palls. -- Copyright ?1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Richard Setlowe The brink
New York A. Fields Books 0525630147 / 9780525630142 First Edition/first Printing Hardcover/Ex-Library Fair
0525630147 Fair/Good- npd., c. 1976, blue bds. w/d.j., 244pp., (shelf wear, corners bumped, spine slightly cocked, page ends lt.soiled, some lt.crinkling from page turning, small chip to a small section of pages towards back at foredge, upper page corners bumped, lt.soiling to a few pages, binding good, d.j. taped to bds., lt.edge wear, mylar cover, rubbing)
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