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left me cold
Interesting read, but more coverage on the author than content comprising final chapter in Cold Sassy. Just 15 chapters and no closing in sight - sadly, author died before finishing. If you're a big fan, you'd probably like it. I'm a medium fan, could have passed on it...

Left cold by Leaving Cold Sassy
Initially, "Leaving Cold Sassy" was just as well written and engrossing as the original story. It would have been nice to know that the story has no real ending. Olive Burns was an excellent writer and it is unfortunate that she passed away and was not able to finish the story that was to become her legacy. The sequel is worth a read, but be forewarned that you will not find out what ultimately happened to Will Tweedy and his family.

Maybe it would have been better if she had lived long enough to complete it.
Leaving Cold sassy Tree

Ms. Burns died before this was completed (she had started Cold Sassy Tree as something to do after she was diagnosed with cancer.It's too bad.Leaving Cold Sassy Tree was not anywhere as good as the original.Maybe it would have been better if she had lived long enough to complete it.

Then again, may she was a "one shot wonder"
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I'm afraid that I can not recommend this book.I normally don't write reviews on two star items, this was an exception.Sorry Ms. Burns.

GunnerMarch, 2010

Leaving Cold Sassy - A Gift
Soon after her first novel was published, Olive Ann Burns began work on the sequel, Leaving Cold Sassy. Fighting cancer off and on for at least 10 years, she finally succumbed to congestive heart failure. While confined to bed her last three years, Olive Ann drafted the first fifteen chapters. Her trusted editor, Ms. Katrina Kenison, took charge to wrap Ms. Burns final work in a satisfactory manner for the legions Of CST readers.
Insight into Olive Ann's process is a gift. Kenison allows readers a close up view to the author's process in building the story based on Olive Ann's own parent's marriage, struggles and love story.
Olive Ann Burns's legacy lives strong. Thank you Katrina and all. Job well done.

Leaving Cold Sassy
We truly lost a great storyteller when Olive Ann Burns passed away.Even though I was so very disappointed in the way "Cold Sassy Tree" ended, she managed to keep me interested in "Leaving Cold Sassy"!I only regret that we will not be able to read any more of her work. ... Read more

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"Cold calling is the lowest percentage of sales call success.  If you invest the same amount of time in reading this book as you do in cold calling, your success percentage and your income will skyrocket."- Jeffrey Gitomer, Author, Little Red Book of Selling

"You can never get enough of a good thing!  Read this book and USE its contents!"- Anthony Parinello, Author, Selling to Vito and Stop Cold Calling Forever

Salespeople everywhere are learning the hard way that cold calling doesn't work anymore.  Yet, millions of salespeople are stuck in the past, using twentieth-century sales techniques to try to lure twenty-first century customers.  There has to be an easier way to find prospects - and there is.  Today's most successful salespeople are using modern technology to bring prospects to them, rather than fishing for prospects over the phone or knocking on doors.

Never Cold Call Again offers practical, step-by-step alternatives to traditional cold calling for salespeople, small business owners, and independent professionals who are actively building a client base. The Information Age presents endless opportunities for finding leads without cold calling. In fact, Frank Rumbauskas’s system brings prospects to the salesperson, rather than the other way around. Readers will find unbeatable sales advice on effective self-promotion, generating endless leads, how to win prospects using e-mail, prospecting on the Web, networking, developing effective proposals, and much more.

Frank J. Rumbauskas Jr. (Phoenix, AZ) provides marketing consultation and coaching services to firms who wish to provide qualified leads to their sales force rather than have them spend productive work time cold calling. He is the author of the self-published hit Cold Calling Is a Waste of Time (0-9765163-0-6). ... Read more

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Great title - little content.
I bought this book because of the title.

I sell for a living and was looking for creative ways in which to connect with potential clients.

The first half of the book went over and over the fact that cold calling does not work - yes I know this, that's the title of the book, it was slow of the mark and didn't get me to sit up and take note.

Finally I got to the ideas for self marketing ...

First idea: write out a mailer promoting yourself and your business - hand deliver this to businesses.... Wooohooo!!!! Why didn't I think of that?

My god, this book has inspired me to write a book.

The author keeps cold calling to sell his never-cold-call technique
Frank, PLEASE, ask your sales STOP COLD CALLING ME. I am overseas on business a lot. Your COLD-CALL sales keep waking me up mid of night asking me to buy your books or CDs. Everytime I pick up your cold call overseas, it costs me international rate. Can you tell me where I can send the bill?

However, this is something I am impressed by you.
Iput your email in spam folder whenever I saw it. But I keep getting your promotional emails showing up in my email box. (It doesn't happen to other spam emal). I can't stop your SPAM EMAIL!
I am impressed!How do you do it?

You claim to teach people how not to cold call. All I see what you do is exactly COLD-CALLING.

Basic...
This book is a basic direct response marketing book. If you have had no exposure to direct response marketing or are a beginner... you'd find some value, in fact, it may be a great starting point (it is an easy read with some sound principles). If not, you'd find it uninspiring and 'old hat' at best.

It seems to me that many of the positive reviews are part of the marketing strategy to generate sales for the book. In fact, I bought because of an e-mail that gave me thousand's of dollars in bonuses if I bought the book (the bonuses were more valuable and interesting than the book). However, good marketing does not define if the product is good.

I strongly suggest considering other options.

Yes, This is What a Sales Book Should Be About!
After working an 8 to 5 job, I had to give it up. Even in this economy,I gave up a "steady paycheck" in order to work for myself in sales. It's a good thing I don't believe anything that I hear on the news.

Now, my title is an independent contractor and I work for myself. It's great, and pay is becoming steady thanks to this book! Frank really has hit the nail on the head and brought sales technique back into the 21st century. The book give specific examples of what to do, and you'll close like crazy with something he calls "profit justification".

If you hate cold calling, read this book and stop. It's already bringing me leads and I HATE (and I mean DISPISE) cold calling!

When almost everything in business has evolved, why not your sales process?
As president of a strategic marketing firm, I've felt the pain of sales. What's more, lately I've recognized that the old methods don't work - voice mail lets us avoid untimely calls, the Web helps us research potential purchases when we need them, and we've learned every way imaginable to avoid salespeople.

Never Cold Call Again's main value is in exploring ways to stop "selling" and to instead put yourself in a position in which prospects seek you out and are actually interested in talking with you (!) ...perhaps even purchasing something. While some of the proposed techniques are cheesy (sending letters with handwritten addresses on the envelope or an "approved" stamp) others make good marketing sense. Consistently sending out a newsletter, maintaining a relevant blog and adding other non-intrusive methods to build a lasting network of prospects can help you convert from a supplicant (how awful!) to a resource (how nice). Worth a read - just use your judgment when you decide which of Rumbauskas' suggestions to put into action. ... Read more

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In this outstanding first novel, Craig Johnson draws on his background in law enforcement and his deep attachment to the American West to produce a literary mystery of stunning authenticity, and full of memorable characters. Walt Longmire, sheriff of Wyoming’s Absaroka County, knows he’s got trouble when Cody Pritchard is found dead. Two years earlier, Cody and three accomplices had been given suspended sentences for raping a Northern Cheyenne girl. Is someone seeking vengeance? Longmire faces the most volatile and challenging case in his twenty-four years as sheriff and means to see that revenge, a dish that is best served cold, is never served at all. ... Read more

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WALT
Loved the book. Arrived on time and in great shape. Found a great new character in Walt. Thanks

STARTS OFF SLOW BUT IT'S NOT CATSUP
So far 30 pages in this is a big yawn.The author has acertain turn of a phrase and Wyoming fauna, floraand geology are deftly captured.But, the sherriff ( a 4 year widower)is large, fat, depressed and mostly crying in his beer when not having panic attacks.I hope things pick up from here.So far our chief sleuth is sluggish, verbose, laconic and unsure.I hope CJ is setting the reader up for the protagonist to rise to the occasion like a Phoenix.I am 138 pages in and not enjoying the cowboy prose and the small town chatter.The plot is that years ago there was a rape of an Indian girl who was retarded like the fact pattern of Glen Ridge, New Jersey a few years ago.Could the Indians be out for vengeance by a murder served cold?I am hoping this book can be redeemed; but after more than a quarter of the work I have serious doubts.OK at page 225 this turns into a rip-snortin' page turning pot-boiler that I cant wait to pick up.CJ gets tired of playing chatty cowboy.sherriff Walt quits mooning over some rich, spoiled, dried up puss and explodes into action.He cold cocks his deputy for exhibiting a nasty S & M streak.The bodies start to pile up.The last Buffalo rifle from Custer's Last Stand shows up as a possible murder weapon.This is good stuff.It was a 200 page wait; but hopefully the weepy, depressed, slow moving, chatty, fat sherriff is only in the rear view mirror now.The Lone Ranger and Tonto goes badass new age; with a dash of weepy, chatty Kathy thrown in.

New Line of Western Books
I was very pleased with this book and glad find a new author that I had read before.

It's simple:I love Walt Longmire.
I stumbled across these in Powell's Bookstore and bought them because the graphics were great. Who says you can't judge a book by . . . . ? Once I got past the cover, I was delighted to discover a series that does not disappoint. All the details of a great series are in place (besides the obvious): food, weather, tiny quirks (love the post-its, Craig!). Buy the series but don't expect to pass them along. The book jackets make them instant collectables.

I give it a ten!
I absolutely loved this book, even though it used the "f" word more times than I cared to hear (I actually listened to the unabridged audio).The reader was superb and the story was excellent. It's not often a book moves me to tears but I was so involved with the characters it was hard not to become emotionally involved.When the book ended, I wanted more! It's been a long time since I've read a book this good. Kudos to the author for letting us get to know all the characters well and involving them all in the mystery. Quite the talent. I highly recommend this book. ... Read more

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Fifteen years later, Quinn Southerland still hadn't forgiven Tess Claybourne for treating him like the dirt beneath her boots. But the widowed nurse tending his ailing mother was a world away from the spoiled homecoming queen Quinn had known. Yet she was just as achingly beautiful, still arousing the old bittersweet longing for something he could never have.

Or could he? That fierce attraction still burned between them. This could be their second chance...if they let love lead them where their hearts longed to go....

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Psychic Cold Reading In Theory and Practice - Mentalism. Cold reading is a skill that is currently making the news in a variety of different places. There has been considerable interest in modern psychics, especially the better-known television psychics who are able to attract vast audiences. Yet nothing of this is new. Cold reading has been with us for as long as fortune tellers, certain priests and priestesses, medicine men, con artists, salesmen and of course psychic mediums. In other words, it is entirely likely that the art and practice of cold reading is almost as old as that oldest of professions. ... Read more

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A very easy to read and understand book!
This book is pretty unusual and covers ideas of cold reading, mentalism, readings and much more.The book is well illustrated with hand drawn pen and ink drawings.Excellent material and available in both printed and kindle versions.

A very easy to read and understand book!
This book is pretty unusual and covers ideas of cold reading, mentalism, readings and much more.The book is well illustrated with hand drawn pen and ink drawings.Excellent material and available in both printed and kindle versions. ... Read more

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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE

The first full account of how the Cold War arms race finally came to a close, this riveting narrative history sheds new light on the people who struggled to end this era of massive overkill, and examines the legacy of the nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons that remain a threat today.
 
Drawing on memoirs, interviews in both Russia and the US, and classified documents from deep inside the Kremlin, David E. Hoffman examines the inner motives and secret decisions of each side and details the deadly stockpiles that remained unsecured as the Soviet Union collapsed. This is the fascinating story of how Reagan, Gorbachev, and a previously unheralded collection of scientists, soldiers, diplomats, and spies changed the course of history.

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The Dead Hand by David Hoffman
Hoffman is obviously a man incredibly experienced in Cold War history, and it shows throughout this fascinating, incredibly entertaining, and completely jarring book. Here you learn all you'd ever need to know about the secret Soviet nuclear and biological weapons war against the U.S., how it came about, the risks involved, the lives it took, and its presence in modern-day foreign policy. The writing is deep yet crisp, the research thorough but not overwhelming. A particular triumph of the book is how well it communicates the widespread fear and lack of understanding of the late 70's and early 80's, when neither side knew what the other was up to, when signals were constantly being misconstrued, and when random happenstances of fate stopped civilization from a complete nuclear holocaust. It was completely enjoyable and terrifying from beginning to end, with a none-too-reassuring final note of trepidation that the Dead Hand is still active in modern-day Russia. Hoffman is always direct and on the money. Vital reading for anyone with the slimmest interest in Cold War/Soviet/Iron Curtain modern history.

Wow!What a shocking piece of work.
David Hoffman does a wonderful job of taking the reader on an inside look back to the cold war and post-cold war world.If you thought you knew about what was going on...well...you didn't.

The Dead Hand is a sometimes frightening look at inside the Soviet Union in regards to handling of nuclear material, chemical/biological weapons development, and military procedures for responding to a possible nuclear attack.Insight into the motivations and discussions of Reagan and Gorbachev at the time of the arms talks are quite intriguing.Hoffman uses personal interviews with those involved to really bring the information to life.

Lots of information and a good read.I would recommend this to anyone and everyone with an interest in history, the cold war, or as insight into some current issues in the world today.

Richly detailed, with some frightening content
"The Dead Hand" has three main topics: a detailed history of the late Cold War, mostly starring Reagan and Gorbachev, with emphasis on the attitudes and problems within the Soviet Union. That is where Mr. Hoffman added substantial content and insight, based on his years over there and his access to sources (people and papers) not available to others or at least not yet exhaustively studied. He tries to play it reasonably straight, without political bias that would have made the book much less attractive.

The second topic is the dangerous situation once the Soviet Union fell, where radioactive materials were unguarded, and terrible results could have occurred. As one person said after risky, difficult and expensive efforts to contain the risk, we accomplished a lot, but who knows what slipped through? This situation was somewhat publicized at the time, but perhaps not to this level, and certainly at least the passage of time allows another reconsideration of what might have gone wrong.

The third is the scariest, the biological weapons research and manufacturing of large quantities of horrible agents, all kept under the strictest security. Of course, all that was illegal and "justified" by claims that of course the Americans must be doing the same thing. This thread was smartly written and may be more likely to be remembered than the "normal" history of nuclear weapons and the arms race that dominated the Cold War.

A Stunning Tour de Force
The Dead Hand should be required reading for everyone and no other book probes so deeply into the incredible insane depths of human skill and depravity as does Hoffman's study of the cold war era. Truth is far stranger than fiction.Some things I had been aware of and others which he presents are new and terrifying to even consider the plans that were implemented for assured extermination.Biological, nuclear and chemical weapons produced at a nearly unimaginable scale and deployed to ensure extermination.Talk about horror or scary--this is it.Stephen King, "Eat your heart out".Truth is terrifying and I don't know if it sets you free.The Dead Hand is a MUST read.Read it twice.

'Dead Hand' is a lively and thought-provoking read.
This book presents aspects of the Cold War that were
unknown to most of us back then. How they reflect on
and affect present-day life is told in an enthralling way.
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He Has a Month to Win Her Love. And They're Already Married.

First comes love, then comes marriage - right? Not so for Carrie Allen.When her newly bankrupt father arranges a union with the wealthy but unappealing Justin Monroe - interrupting a nascent courtship with the one she loves - Carrie's understandably upset. But even after telling her new husband they're wrong for each other, he refuses to grant an immediate annulment.Instead, Justin offers a deal: a month-long trial marriage. As she does everything she can to prove the marriage is doomed, he tries just as hard to win her affection. All of which makes for an uproarious romantic comedy set amid the manners and mores of the late-nineteenth century.Will Carrie melt under the heat of Justin's desire? Or will she always remain The Cold Wife? ... Read more

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Very poorly written
This book is supposed to be a period piece, unfortunately, throughout the book the characters' language is very contemporary and completely out of place for the specified time period.In one of her books the author has a character wonder if a ring was an actual diamond ring or if it was cubic zirconia in the late 1800's!Additionally, the conversations between the characters are incredibly stiff and unrealistic.I ended up skipping whole paragraphs to get through this book, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.

A very entertaining read
I was slightly hesitant on beginning this book because I hadn't read many romances, but it was surprisingly entertaining and enjoyable! The premise, that a woman is forced into an arranged marriage after her father goes bankrupt, was immediately engaging and although I found the main character immature and whiny at first, she quickly evolved into a likable and charming woman. The relationship between her and her new husband seemed very genuine and I soon found myself relating to what she was going through.

One of the most interesting parts of the story is that the perspective changes from the wife to the husband and the reader gets to see how each of them interprets and experiences certain events differently. The struggle between the importance of work and providing for your family vs. being there for your significant other was also prominent and something which I'm sure many of us can still understand today. Beyond the romance of this book, there is also a mystery intertwined, which made it even more exciting.

As for some of the 1-star reviews (which I was very surprised to see!), I am not an expert on this time period, so I have no idea if the dialogue and characters were realistic or not. However, if you are not a stickler for historical accuracy, I definitely recommend this book. I found myself laughing out loud at some of the scenes and anxiously turning the pages to find out what would happen next. It's an easy, delightful read.

Romantic & Charming
I am quickly becoming a fan of Ruth Ann Nordin.This was the 2nd book I have read by this author and once again I loved it.

This book is an historical romance and the author was able to transport me to the time and place of the story with no effort at all.

The story is about a young woman forced to marry someone she believes to be boring, so that she doesn't get left destitute after her father is bankrupt. Little does she know that the man has loved her since she was 14 years old.Carrie is incredibly annoying to start off with but that is intentional, she doesn't yet realize what this young man is like, and we as the reader do.I got to the point where I wanted to shake her to get some sense into her.But thankfully she soon comes to realize what a wonderful man her husband is and, well you'll just have to read the story for yourself.

Although the ending is a happy one, it had a twist that I wasn't expecting.

A couple of people gave Ms. Nordin 1 star because they were disappointed with the fact that she was not accurate with the details of the period.I would say, If you are a stickler for period accuracy then don't read this novel because those things will probably annoy you enough to spoil the story. BUT if you enjoy a lighthearted romantic story filled with great, loveable characters then you can't lose.

Moronic
The premise for this story was a good one. The problem is that the author did not take the time to research the moral restrictions of the period. No brother of this time would have dared to discuss his sister's marital relationship and absolutely no one would have discussed the subject of marital relationships with anyone in public.
Because of the modernization of the discussions the characters, it did nothing to lend any credibility to the story. The moral code of the period were very restrictive and ladies did not discuss sexual relationships with even other women, much less with men...not even their own husbands. And no gentlemen of the time would have dared to kiss a woman in public....just not a believable story. Very disappointing.

Awful writing.
This is a contemporary novel placed in the 1890s. The language is modern, the attitudes are strictly 21st century. This lends an unfortunate disbelief to the story. People simply did not talk openly about sex, or try to match an aristocrat's daughter with the family cook, or disrespect one's parents.But the worst offense of this book is the slaughter of the English language. Where was the editor?Grammar and spelling are not this author's fortes. ... Read more

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Never get in the way of a mission

The job was supposed to be dead easy -- hand-deliver some legal papers to billionaire philanthropist Harry Van Dorn's extravagant yacht, get his signature and be done. But Manhattan lawyer Genevieve Spenser soon realizes she's in the wrong place at the wrong time, and that the publicly benevolent playboy has a sick, vicious side. As he tries to make her his plaything for the evening, eager to use and abuse her until he discards her with the rest of his victims, Genevieve must keep her wits if she intends to survive the night.

But there's someone else on the ship who knows the true depths of Van Dorn's evil. Peter Jensen is far more than the unassuming personal assistant he pretends to be -- he's a secret operative who will stop at nothing to ensure Harry's deadly Rule of Seven terror campaign dies with him. But Genevieve's presence has thrown a wrench into his plans, and now he must decide whether to risk his mission to keep her alive, or allow her to become collateral damage . . . ... Read more

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Worst Book EVER!
This is, arguably, the worst book I've ever read. The first third of the book has a premise in which only a psycho could find any romance. Falling in love and/or hot sex are great but self-preservation IS the first law of nature. Eewwww. After that, I wanted to shoot the heroine myself as she did one stupid thing after another, page after page after page. And she was a shrew throughout the whole thing, as well. Still, per usual, I kept reading. I just kept hoping it was somehow going to get better. But no, the end was just as awful as the rest. I'm shocked that Stuart is the same author who wrote the two historical novels that I first read and very much enjoyed. It seems impossible that the same person penned both. Sheesh!

Very badly-structured attempt at romantic suspense.
This book (and, I suspect, this series) is to romantic suspense what The Playboy Billionaire Sheikh's Virgin Pastry Chef would be to contemporary romance - over the top melodrama, minus the heart. I think there's a particular mood you need to be in to read it.
I looked for that mood but I couldn't find it.

I love romantic suspense, but I generally prefer it to be a bit more realistic than this one. Something we can imagine actually happening, something that deals with real issues. This book is anything but that - and I think the world domination theme was too crazy for me to really get into the story. To be honest, it was utterly ridiculous, and a little embarrassing. And for all their greatness, the `heroes' are grossly incompetent. The comically over the top villain didn't help matters. I also do not appreciate how many digs the author had at the French.

I know this series is supposed to be so fantastic because of the `edgy' heroes, but I'd like to know what's so great about a man who treats the woman like dirt, lies to her repeatedly that she's bad in bed and that he's only there under orders, and who then the poor heroine has to go running after at the end. There wasn't a single moment where he let the heroine - or the reader - know how he felt. The relationship was a joke. There are a lot of complaints about how ruthless the characters are, but I can handle most things in my stories. That wasn't the problem. The problem was it just wasn't a very good book.

And the biggest problem of all was that there actually wasn't any suspense.
No ticking clock. A villain who was subdued from the get go. A hero who might think bad things but was never in a million years going to act on them. A heroine who stole knives and - gasp! - made the hero a sandwich.
There wasn't much of a plot either, but this author sure can tell you backstory until the cows come home. We seriously never actually find out anything about the organisation they are trying to stop.

Anne Stuart's writing suffers from the same flaw that stops me liking writers such as Cherry Adair and Sherrilyn Kenyon. Namely, she creates the most abysmal, forgettable, stupid, annoying heroines. Then she throws them in with Superman. And bam! they're in love in five minutes. Not once are we shown what's so special about this woman who has height/weight/attractiveness/intelligence/ personality/any other issues over all other magnificent women the hero has known through his lifetime. Not once is there a moment where it's convincing the dim-witted, barely attractive heroine has the ability to bowl the hero over. Go ahead, make your heroine plain, but at least give her a personality or something.

Much of the book goes like this:
Hero: "I have to kill you and there's nothing you can do to stop me."
Heroine: "Oh I'll stop you. Just you wait and see."
Hero: "Think that if it makes you feel better."
Heroine: "When do you plan to kill me?"
And then they have a little spat, ending either with a kiss or with her trying to storm out of the room. Cut to the next scene where the hero catches her by surprise. And repeat.

The heroine goes on and on about her clothes and her weight, and the hero waffled around, trying to figure out if - and how - he was going to kill the heroine. He's nowhere near the tough bastard the writer wants us to think he is. In fact, he's kind of bland and indecisive.

Of course we have the stereotypical mega evil French guy (what is it with hating the French?! In my experience, they're by far one of the nicest nations.).

The terms `collateral damage' and `fifteen pounds' were used so often I thought about turning the reading of this book into a drinking game.

I had to laugh at the dam in Mysore, India being a target though. I've been there - to that very dam - and it's not exactly the kind of place that's going to be any good for bringing down the baddy's wrath on the world. In fact, it's run out of water. It might have sounded exotic, I suppose...but it's just...not. And `beefing up security' at the dam? Obviously this author hasn't spent a lot of time in India if she thinks `security' over there ever consists of more than a young man asleep in a booth, occasionally waking up to take a bribe. And the dam is part of a park where families go for picnics, not the bloody Pentagon!

Then - just when I thought the story might redeem itself - the heroine (who already had notched up rather a lot of borderline TSTL moments) had the too stupid to live moment of them all, and I knew I hated her with everything I am.

I have nothing good to say about this book.

4.5 stars
This is the second book in the series about the shadowy organization known as the Committee.

Genevieve is a lawyer who needs a vacation. And she's planned one--she's on her way to Costa Rica, but she just has to do this one thing for her law firm first: deliver some papers to billionaire Harry Van Dorn to sign.

Which is where she runs into trouble. Van Dorn is a notorious playboy, but Genevieve thinks she can handle him. He arranges it so she has to spend the night on his yacht, and seems to enjoy playing games with her. Unfortunately, the timing is disastrous.

Peter Jensen, currently posing as Van Dorn's personal assistant, is actually an assassin, and Van Dorn is actually a whacked-out lunatic with a 7-point plan to throw the world into chaos and profit by it. Peter's mission is to discover the plan and kill Van Dorn.

And to accomplish that mission, he may well have to eliminate Genevieve, who's definitely in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Like Black Ice, it's an intense, exciting story, with a very dark hero who falls in love with a woman he's supposed to kill. Anne Stuart does a great job with this kind of hero, making his ruthless, practical mindset very believable.

Genevieve is also believable, though--oddly--not as sympathetic for me. I could easily believe in her character as a smart, successful lawyer who knows she can handle herself, doesn't quite believe when she finds herself in over her head, and especially that she makes up her own mind about who to believe--the smooth, charming billionaire, whose type she's handled before; or the bland personal assistant who's suddenly become hard and dangerous and who makes her distinctly uncomfortable?

It's a personal failing, I'm sure, that I related more easily to the character who does what needs to be done without regard to emotion, than to a strong and confident woman. To paraphrase Harry Dresden, that would probably tell me something important about myself, if I were an astute sort of person. Good thing I'm not astute.

I didn't connect with this story quite as well as I did with Black Ice, or with the next book, Ice Blue, though I still loved it. Maybe it's that the villain was so over-the-top James-Bond-ish, to the point where he wasn't really understandable. Or maybe it's just that I didn't connect as well with Genevieve. Still a great story, though.

I love these Ice books!
I am totally hooked on these books. They are outside of my normal reading (I'm a Kenyon, Showalter, JR Ward, and Feehan reader), but I LOVE Anne Stuart. I bought Black Ice on a whim (I had never read anything by her) and I loved it. They are really heavy with action and character development--not a lot of meaningly violence and sex. Her plots are engrossing and there is just enough darkness to balance the romantic elements. I cannot say enough about these books--I don't even know which is my favorite...although Ice Blue is pretty darn close.

Nice, entertaining, fast but...
I read Black Ice recently and I was so thrilled that I went and ordered all Ice books afterwards. This is my second of the series and while it was very fast-paced, interesting and addictive ("just another chapter and then I'll sleep for sure" style), it was not Black Ice. While the action was just as good, I found Genevieve and Peter a less interesting couple and their romance lacking. I especially disliked the ending, in fact I almost hated it.

What bothered me:
-Both hero and heroine kept denying their attraction and feelings for each other for wwwwaaaayyyyy too long
-Peter was actually "Cold as Ice". I like a cold, aloof hero but he was robot-like and so self-controlled it irritated me

What I really hated about the ending(---SPOILERS---)
-Peter actually went on and used Genny as a bait to catch Harry in the end. And the worst thing is he KNEW that had he suggested to Harry that he, Peter, gave himself up instead of Genevieve, Harry would have gladly accepted. So, he could have taken her place at a risky situation and didn't, but put business first. This makes him less than a Knight in shining armor
-Also, Peter was determined to not leave the Comittee for Genevieve, as Bastien did for Chloe. To me, this confirms that he was really cold enough to actually put his work ahead of his feelings. Certainly not the decision I have come to expect from a romance book hero
-Genevieve was, in the end, what we call Too Stupid To Live; Bastien warned her that Peter stood a better chance if she didn't distruct him but she thought she knew better than a professional agent; she went after Peter and as a result got him shot.
-The fact that Peter suffered a limp from Genevieve's rush action, is what made him leave his job which he otherwise wouldn't. And I can't help but wonder, how will the heroine feel for the rest of her life knowing she caused his limp and that hadn't there been this injury, he might left her for good? These facts make their HEA too fragile for my taste.

As a synopsis though, it was an engaging book, filled with action and a little dark despite the Carribean sun which is a plus for me. The romance was second-rate though and the hero too cold and business-like to make it into any "memorable heroes list". Nevertheless, Ms Stuart's writing was excellent and I can't wait to start Blue Ice, Takeshi's story.
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"Stone Westmoreland had an eye for the ladies. And charm that never failed. He was an experienced player who played for keeps. So who would have guessed that prim and proper Madison Winters could rattle his nerves without even trying? She had him feeling all protective, and all sexed up, too. Before he knew it, Stone had volunteered to help Madison find her mother, who'd gone missing in the mountains.

Stone was willing to play the knight in shining armor, but only if it meant the hard days of trekking through the wilderness would result in the ultimate payoff--passion-filled nights under the Montana starlit sky with the delectable Miss Winters..." ... Read more

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very good
Thanksyou for such promt service, you've helped me in the quest in completeing my collection.

could have found a better way for them to meet
this one was so hard for me to read..and the daughter was one the dumbest mission to find her mother who had clearly told her more or less she was fine...and i have to agree with what someone else said about her books..why are they in such a rush to get married

hmmmm.
Of all the brother's stories that I've read from the Westmorelands, I like this one the least..the story was slow...i still have not finished reading it...I have moved on to Clint and Cole...even Durango, but this one I did not like...It was slow and hard to follow.sorry BJ

Stone Cold Surrender Review
Exceelent book!Another great piece by Brenda Jackson!As if she could write a bad book!

Too short of a story and a little rushed
But it's still a good story. I just hate because it's only 180 pages long. I think that's why I thought it was rushed. I don't believe that you can fall in love that fast in 2 days. You just met the man on the plane and then you're in love 2 days later. A little far fetched but it's all good. It's a Brenda Jackson novel that I'm glad to have in my collection. ... Read more

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Anyone can learn to store fruits and vegetables safely and naturally with a cool, dark space (even a closet!) and the step-by-step advice in this book. ... Read more

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Informative
Excellent book.I have not read it cover to cover but what I have read already has provided me with the knowledge on how to save food much better than I already do.I will not have a root cellar next year but I know this book will help me when I do make one.

The Single Best Reference For Root Cellaring
This book gathers everything you need to know about root cellaring between two covers.It details exactly what conditions you need to store every vegetable and fruit imaginable, and how long to expect them to last in storage.It includes precise directions on how to build a root cellar, as well as how to utilize spaces you already have around your house for food storage.You can tell the authors are writing about what they know, with techniques they have used themselves.Anyone can have some space dedicated to root cellaring.It inspired me to build a few crates to prepare for storing the garden's excess this winter.I highly recommend this book if you're a gardener, homesteader, or prepper.

Very Informative
I found this book to be very informative. We are in the process of planning a root cellar and this tells you everything you need to know on how to do it, how big you need, to what kind of vegetables store the best and when to plant them. I have learned alot!

Root Cellaring
"Root Cellaring"has great information,most applicable for those who have room on their property, basementsand those who are planning new construction.

ROOT CELLARING
I have learned a lot from reading this book. These authors really know their stuff! The most invaluable information is all of the specific instructions on how to prep and care for foods that will be stored over the winter. There is also adequate information on different styles and plans for root cellars. Worth every dime. ... Read more

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Coming home was anything but safe to Muirinn O'Donnell. The successful journalist, single, pregnant and proud, was back in her Alaskan hometown, investigating her grandfather's death--and finding evidence of a conspiracy. Muirinn turned to the one person who could protect her--her first love, rugged bush pilot Jett Rutledge. Though years had passed since they'd seen each other, Muirinn trusted him.

She felt strong with Jett on her side, but wondered how long his kindness would last. Because Muirinn had kept a painful secret from Jett for eleven long years. If he found out, she feared he might never forgive her.

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an engrossing romantic suspense novel full of passion and danger
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Muirinn O'Donnell is a highly successful, pregnant journalist who just returned from her latest research trip to find her grandfather, Gus, has died, under suspicious circumstances. She never wanted to return to her hometown in Safe Harbor, Alaska but now she's back. When she finds evidence that there may have been a conspiracy around Gus's death, connecting it to a blast in the mines that killed her father twenty years ago, someone will stop at nothing to prevent the information from getting out.

Jett Rutledge is a brush pilot who long ago loved Muirinn with all his being. But Safe Harbor was his home and he refused to follow Muirinn as she chased her dreams. When she returns, he knows his simple life is about to be turned upside down, especially when she starts stirring up trouble with her investigation. Jett can protect her, but both of them have secrets better left unrevealed. However, passion intervenes and these two find themselves caught up in a Cold Case Affair.

Loreth Anne White has written an engrossing romantic suspense novel full of passion and danger, and the charm of Alaskan town life in Cold Case Affair. Mystery and intrigue abound as Muirinn investigates what happened to Gus and what really happened in that mine so many years ago. Intensity ratchets higher the closer Muirinn gets to finding the answers she so desperately seeks. While I suspected who was behind the murderous bomb in the mine shaft from early on in the story, I really hoped it wouldn't be who I thought it was since I was so sympathetic to the killer and their plight. That shows true talent when a writer can make us love the bad guys as much as we love the good guys, understanding what drives them to the acts they choose.

I will admit, I'm not usually a fan of the "Big Misunderstanding" and/or "Secret Baby" plot devices, but Loreth makes both work in a believable way in Cold Case Affair. As much as I wanted to smack Jett and Muirinn a time or two for just not coming out with it and revealing their secrets, I felt for them and completely understood their reasons for keeping such important details to themselves. I especially liked the unique spin she uses to make the two secrets mesh so seamlessly, putting her own spin on the themes.

Muirinn and Jett are such a perfectly imperfect couple, both with stubbornness in spades. The spark between them has had over ten years to smolder, never dying, faring again to brilliant vibrant life as soon as these two reluctant love birds come in contact again. They have much to learn about what it means to really give yourselves, body and soul, to another for safekeeping, but we know that as soon as they can overcome their past, they will be strong enough to face down the worst of their demons... together.

I thoroughly enjoyed my visit to Safe Harbor in Cold Case Affair and I look forward to future adventures in the Wild Country series. Loreth Anne White has cemented her spot on my "must watch" author list and I can't wait to see what she dreams up next.

© Kelley A. Hartsell, October 2009. All rights reserved.

Buried Secrets
Do secrets always come out even when you burry them? Are you better off keeping a secret? Almost everytime you try to bury a secret it comes out. In this book we have a bunch of buried secrets about several different things. They can all ruin the lives of the people in this small town. You have murder, accidental deaths, poisoning, betrayel, adoption, & search/rescue parties. You name it, it is likely to happen in this book. Many times people try to cover up a scandal but they always get burned and everything is much worse.

I was captivated at the secrets that Murriun and Jett keep from each other. If either of them had enough fatih in each other they wouldn't be in the shape they are in today and would not have so many wasted years. They may still have had a hard time over coming the scandal that was released in the town on this cold day though.

Excellent Read
If you like romance and suspense you'll love this book. It contains secrets, lies, murder, conspiracy, questionable death, love, and second chances.

Muirinn O'Donnell returned to her hometown of Safe Harbor, Alaska after eleven years. She was there to take over her grandfather's newspaper business and to find out how her grandfather really died. She did not believe the official verdict that he had died of a heart attack and had fallen down a mine shaft. Her grandfather ~Gus~ had been her only living relative and she was determined to find answers. She set out to prove that someone had killed him in order to protect themselves.

She had a past in Safe Harbor with Jett Rutledge that she would have to explain. She was also seven months pregnant making her safety even more important. When Muirinn had run away from Safe Harbor she had been pregnant with Jett's child and had given it up for adoption and this was a secret that she would have to reveal if she expected him to help her. What she didn't know was that Jett already knew and was very angry with her.

Since her grandfather had been found down a mine shaft where twenty years earlier an explosion that had killed all of the men in the tunnel had occurred she was sure that whoever killed Gus was trying to stop him from revealing a secret he had uncovered that would prove the explosion was no accident.
Jett was determined to have nothing to do with Muirinn but when someone started trying to kill her he had to protect her and find out the truth behind the attempts.

The town was basically run by the Moran family and they were the ones trying to stop Muirinn from finding answers...but were they responsible for trying to kill her and had they killed Gus? And how were they connected to the explosion in the mine twenty years ago?...Or were they connected to the explosion and Gus's death and the attempted murder of Muirinn or just trying to hide the truth to protect someone else?
Guess if you really want to know you'll have to read the book for yourself? ... Read more

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His Vengeance Will Be Repeated...

A woman's slashed, incinerated corpse is found in a seedy New Orleans apartment. Her killer is certain there were no witnesses, unaware that his every move was seen by a beautiful stranger--from her bed in a bayou cottage on the outskirts of town-

And Repeated...

Weeks later, another violent vision shatters Olivia Bechet's sleep. Convinced a serial killer is stalking the city, Olivia turns to the authorities. But jaded detective Rick Bentz doesn't believe her--even when a second body turns up, slain in exactly the same bizarre, ritualistic manner Olivia described-

And Repeated-

As New Orleans panics in the icy grip of a merciless killer, Olivia is frustrated by Bentz's skepticism--and captivated by her attraction to him. But soon her dreams are invaded by images of another murder. One that has yet to be committed. This time, Olivia recognizes not only the victim's face--but the murderer's. And both are closer than she ever imagined-

Customer Reviews (38)

great book
this was a great book with a lot of suspense which i love. the only downside was all of the grammatical errors which seems to be a constant in lisa jackson's books. other than that i loved it.

Cold Blooded
Book arrived quickly, a real steal for the money!Great reading!I love Lisa Jackson books!Thumbs up!

Great intro to Ms. Jackson for me
This was the first book I read of Lisa Jackson's as I was looking for a new author for some mystery and suspense.I really enjoyed it!It reminded me of another favorite author of mine Erica Spindler.Great story.I felt like it kept me guessing for a while who was the real killer, her mystery relative, her ex-con dad, the creepy co-ed, or the real priest who doesn't really keep his vows.However the only reason I don't give it 5 stars is because when it was revealed who it was it was just sort of like thrown in there like saying duh you should've known no surprise.I didn't feel like it was a big reveal.I did like the chemistry between the two main characters.I felt like Olivia was a bit wishy washy at times but it felt right for the story.

Good read
This book was in awesome condition for a used book and it was a great follow up book to 'Hot Blooded'.

Lisa Jackson Cold Blooded
This book is in the murder/suspense genre. There are some very graphic scenes where the victims are tortured gruesomely. The characters are likable and the writting keeps you interested. I would recommend this book to folks that like this genre but not to those who are easily grossed out. ... Read more

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The Cold War between the former Soviet Union and the United States indelibly shaped the world we live in today--especially international politics, economics, and military affairs. This volume shows how the globalization of the Cold War during the 20th century created the foundations for most of today's key international conflicts, including the "war on terror." Odd Arne Westad examines the origins and course of Third World revolutions and the ideologies that drove the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. towards interventionism. He focuses on how these interventions gave rise to resentments and resistance that, in the end, helped to topple one and to seriously challenge the other superpower. In addition, he demonstrates how these worldwide interventions determined the international and domestic framework within which political, social and cultural changes took place in such countries as China, Indonesia, Iran, Ethiopia, Angola, Cuba, and Nicaragua. According to Westad, these changes, plus the ideologies, movements and states that interventionism stirred up, constitute the real legacy of the Cold War.Odd Arne Westad is Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. In 2004 he was named head of department and co-director of the new LSE Cold War Studies Centre. Professor Westad is the author, or editor, of ten books on contemporary international history including Decisive Encounters: The Chinese Civil War, 1946-1950 (2003) and, with Jussi Hanhimaki, The Cold War: A History in Documents and Eyewitness Accounts (2003). In addition, he is a founding editor of the journal Cold War History. ... Read more

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Padded Notes
The core of this book is what appears to be very detailed notes of official Soviet correspondence related to the wars in Afghanistan (1979-1989), Angola (1975-1976), and Somalia-Ethiopia (1974-1978).It is padded with much less-detailed, less recondite information about Cold War operations in Latin America, Indonesia, and the Arab World (mostly the former South Yemen).That, in turn, is further padded with some "analysis" that highly damaging to the book's value as history.

The first layer of "padding" includes most of chapter 3 ("Creating the Third World"), in which Westad races through an unmanageably long itinerary of newly liberated colonies of Western Europe, or else Latin America.This is actually valuable at times, especially if one follows the endnotes: Westad focuses on the destructive aspect of the US in the 3rd World to 1960, and documents it with many non-radical sources.However, Westad is apparently convinced that the former colonial powers or Latin states were entirely without agency of any kind; so the result is that he can simply treat the US as a malevolent black box.

Westad is clearly far more sympathetic to the Soviets, probably because his research tends to pursue Soviet motives through (a) official memoranda to (b) a series of compelling motivations. In contrast, the motives of US figures are documented through informal tapes, and not pursued.The Soviets are therefore portrayed as cautiously evading conflict, and responding only to multiple US provocations; the Usonians are portrayed as omnipotent louts whose behavior requires no explanation.*

The most damaging aspect of the book lies in what I called the "outer" layer of padding.It's padding because it purports to be "analysis" of the overall sweep of events, but it shows clear signs of having been included as boilerplate. First, Westad entirely ignores the role of Europeans.Oddly, the East Germans are represented frequently as having independent influence; the French, almost never. Westad claimed this was because he believed the 3rd World, not Europe, was the "real" theater of the Cold War. This is silly, because Europe was still a participant in the 3rd world.I think there are two other reasons he didn't mention.

1. First, acknowledging the colonial powers as as having agency would have made everything more complicated.Instead of being 4/5ths padding, the book would have been highly distilled and required enormous effort to write.

2.Second, Westad has no desire to indict capitalism, just the US. This book has a remarkably crude, even Manichaean, view of historical causality.There is no inner division within the USA, and no sharing of agency among Western elites.Westad allows for deep turmoil and complexity in the Soviet leadership, but not in the "Western camp."

This becomes spectacular in his attempts to blame the entire poverty of the 3rd world on the USA, rather than acknowledging Europe's share of responsibility.His economic narratives presuppose, for example, omnipotence by the US government, complete ability to anticipate consequences, and complete discretion.** Likewise, he "blames" the US for creating the IMF in order to "Americanize" developing nations; the real reason was that the IMF was vital to the new recovery scheme, in which growth rates were delinked from gold.Again, the Western European contributions to both demands for and approval of US policies are ignored, for clearly invidious reasons.

Those interested in finding a better thought-out and more accurate indictment of US economic/security policies should consider Galeano's Open Veins of Latin America, which is infinitely superior.
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*It's understandable that Westad might simply be kinder to the USSR because it lost, and the USA survived.No doubt he regards the USSR as the natural defender of native rebellions against oppressive neocolonial polities.But rather than really make his case, he uses very manipulative language, such as endlessly following the death toll from each US intervention with a figure representing the same percentage of Americans; for example, 30K Nicaraguans killed in the civil war there, followed by 1.2 million (the same percentage of Americans as 30K is of Nicaraguans).He does nothing like this for the Soviets.

** For example, he claims the US caused the debt crisis by "deliberately" driving its currency up (1980's); in fact, the US government was trying to stop galloping inflation at considerable expense to its own economy.He mixes up real and nominal interest rates, and blames US deficits for a global credit crisis (the US public deficit in the early 80's was not unusually large as a share of GDP for OECD countries in that time period).

Fiscal and monetary policies of large countries accommodate interests inside and outside that country.In a crisis like the period 1971-1984, no policy option could avoid causing widespread unhappiness.In any parallel universe, any alternative course of action could have been deemed "selfish."And so on.

Dissapointing
The author made this an unnecesarily difficult to read by using convoluted run on sentances and dancing around points instead of just stating them.

He had some good information but it was all overview level in detail.He'd say what happened but leave out how or why, which is what makes history truley interesting.

The book also seemed to lack a coherent organization, it would focus on the US or the Soviets for a long while then switch, which made it difficult to view the cold war in any kind of chronological order.

Outstanding overview of a huge topic
This is by far the best book available about the Cold War in the Third World. I have been waiting for a good book on this subject for quite some time, and I was not disappointed.
Westad starts out with a broad overview of American and Soviet history with particular emphasis on the importance of ideology and expansionism. He shows that the Cold War was primarily an ideological struggle between two powers that occurred at a time when when many new nations were coming into being due to European decolonialization. The two forces contributed to the radicalization and violence of the Third World in the Cold War.
Westad does an excellent job of providing both wide scope and in-depth analysis of a number of conflicts. He covers Cuba, Vietnam, Ethiopia, Somalia, Angola, Iran, Afghanistan and Central America. Unless you are an expert in all these conflicts, you are sure to learn something from this book. I am somewhat familiar with a few of them and found no major inaccuracies. And Westad does a great job of integrating them together into a tight narrative and argument.
My only complaint is that the book ends with an argument against "intervention." After 400 pages of explaining why past interventions were so important to the direction of modern history, it seems a bit of a contradiction to the rest of the book. But this is just a tiny criticism of an otherwise great book.

Outstanding Overview of a Neglected Topic
This fine book is devoted to a hugely important topic typically neglected in most discussions of the Cold War; the course and impact of the Cold War in the Third World.Most overview monographs on the Cold War concentrate on US-Soviet relations and/or the impact of the Cold War in Europe and Japan.Westad successfully attempts an overview and structural analysis of the Cold War in the Third World.Westad opens with a pair of summary chapters on the USA and Soviet Union leading up to the beginning of the Cold War.He then covers the early decades of the Cold War in the Third World concisely, and devotes much of the book to the last 2 decades of the Cold War, including detailed analyses of the events in Afghanistan, Africa, and Central America.Based on a wealth of secondary sources and analysis of primary literature from both US and Soviet archives, the narrative is comprehensive, clear, and punctuated with thoughtful analysis.

There is a lot of surprising information.While many readers will be aware of US interventions in places like Guatemala and Iran, Westad's descriptions of the depth of US interventions in places like Indonesia and Brazil will come as a surprise.Similarly, his description of how the Soviet involvement in the Third World came to be seen as a crucial element of the legitimacy of the Soviet state goes a long way towards explaining why the events in Afghanistan had such importance.With respect to the battleground states of the various Third World countries where US and Soviet interventions took place, this is generally a series of tragic stories, usually involving considerable bloodshed and impoverishment.

Westad goes considerably beyond good narrative.Several well articulated themes run through the narrative.A basic concept is that the Cold War was driven by two competing ideologies about what should be the basis of modern society - American liberal capitalism and Soviet communism. Westad is very good on how ideological considerations consistently drove US and Soviet policy decisions, including the many cases where ideology led to gross misunderstandings of reality. Another important theme is the independent role of local elites in Third World countries.Over and over again, these elites or portions of them sought superpower support to pursue their own ends, often quite different from those of the superpowers. This led, for example, to the depressingly frequent US support of brutal dictatorships and the Soviet support of regimes who suppressed local communist parties.Westad is very good as well at showing how the Cold War involvement of the superpowers was entangled with decolonialization, another important theme.Both the US and Soviet Union presented themselves as, and made serious efforts to act as, modernizers.In a series of particularly ironic developments, both US and Soviet policies often mimicked the development policies of the imperial states they displaced.

My only substantial criticisms of Westad are his treatment of the origins of the Cold War.Westad presents US policies as rooted in a long history of US expansionism and capitalist ideology.There is considerable truth in this position but it ignores some of the specific circumstances of the 1940s.The failure of the post-WWI settlement seemed to demand a dominant international US role after WWII.Similarly, as Westad's own narrative shows, US fears of the Soviet Union were driven in good part by Stalin's aggressive and paranoid behavior.

Westad concludes by highlighting the frequently tragic consequences of US and Soviet intervention in Third World states, often transforming local conflicts into major disasters.The results of US and Soviet interventions in the Third World are among the most important results of the Cold War, and these results have been largely negative.

A good introduction
This is an important introduction to the topic of the Third World and the Cold War which has been gaining more study recently and deservedly so.For too long the history of the Cold War focused on foreign policy and Europe, but this book examines the doctrine of intervention, beggining mostly with Eisenhower in the U.S and increasing greatly with Khruschev and Brezhnev in the U.S.S.R.The book examines unique examples such as Cuba, Vietnam, Southern Africa, and Afghanistan.But it is also a sweeping account of this phenomenon, whereby many countries went from being colonized to being politiszed between the West and the Soviet Union.A very interesting study that seeks to show how the modern state of affairs in the world is tied up with the affects of the Cold War.

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In this savagely audacious novel, James Ellroy plants a pipe bomb under the America in the 1960s, lights the fuse, and watches the shrapnel fly. On November 22, 1963 three men converge in Dallas. Their job: to clean up the JFK hit’s loose ends and inconvenient witnesses. They are Wayne Tedrow, Jr., a Las Vegas cop with family ties to the lunatic right; Ward J. Littell, a defrocked FBI man turned underworld mouthpiece; and Pete Bondurant, a dope-runner and hit-man who serves as the mob’s emissary to the anti-Castro underground.

It goes bad from there.For the next five years these night-riders run a whirlwind of plots and counter-plots: Howard Hughes’s takeover of Vegas, J. Edgar Hoover’s war against the civil rights movement, the heroin trade in Vietnam, and the murders of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bobby Kennedy. Wilder than L. A. Confidential, more devastating than American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand establishes Ellroy as one of our most fearless novelists.Amazon.com Review
With its hypnotic, staccato rhythms, and words jostling, bumping, marching forward with edgy intensity (like lemmings heading toward a cliff of their own devising), The Cold Six Thousand feels as if it's being narrated by a hopped-up Dr. Seuss who's hungrier for violence than for green eggs and ham. In spinning the threads of post-JFK-assassination cultural chaos, James Ellroy's whirlwind riff on the 1960s takes nothing for granted, except that absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Hurtling from Las Vegas to Vietnam to Cuba to Memphis and back again (and all points in between), from Dealey Plaza to opium fields to smoke-filled back rooms where the mob holds sway, the novel traces the strands of complicity, greed, and fear that connect three men to a legion of supporting characters: Ward Littell, a former Feeb whose current allegiance to the mob and to Howard Hughes can't mask his admiration for the Kennedy brothers and Martin Luther King; Pete Bondurant, a hit man and fervent anti-Communist who splits his time between Vegas casinos and CIA-sponsored heroin labs in Saigon; and Wayne Tedrow Jr., a young Vegas cop who's sent to Dallas in late November 1963 to snuff a black pimp, and who is fighting a losing battle against his predilection for violence: "Junior was a hider. Junior was a watcher. Junior lit flames. Junior torched. Junior lived in his head."

And behind these three, J. Edgar Hoover is the master puppeteer, pulling strings with visionary zeal and resolute pragmatism, the still point around whom the novel roils and tumbles. At once evil and comic, Hoover predicts that LBJ "will deplete his prestige on the home front and recoup it in Vietnam. History will judge him as a tall man with big ears who needed wretched people to love him," and feels that Cuba "appeals to hotheads and the morally impaired. It's the cuisine and the sex. Plantains and women who have intercourse with donkeys."

The Seussian comparison isn't that far-fetched: Ellroy's novel, like the children's books (and like the very decade it limns), is flexible, spontaneous, and unabashedly off-kilter. Weighing in at a hefty 700 pages, The Cold Six Thousand is a trifle bloated by the excesses of its narrative form. But what glorious excess it is, as Ellroy continues to illuminate the twin impulses toward idealism and corruption that frame American popular and political culture. He deftly puts unforgettable faces and voices to the murkiest of conspiracy theories, and simultaneously mocks our eager assumption that such knowledge will make a difference. --Kelly Flynn ... Read more

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The Cold Six Thousand
It is difficult to review this book in isolation as it is the middle volume of the "Underworld USA" trilogy.Ifyou haven't read the first volume, "American Tabloid," a lot of "Cold Six" isn't going to make a lot of sense.I'm looking forward to reading this one and the final volume, "Blood's A Rover."

Reads like a Dick and Jane book
American Tabloid was one of the best books I have ever read, I was so looking forward to the next 2 in the trilogy, but I just had to stop reading after 100 pages. The so-called "noir" style to me reads more like one of those old kindergarten Dick and Jane books. See Dick. Dick has a gun. Dick shoots Jane. Jane's head explodes. Dick has a cigarette.

The only parts that were not painful to read were the transcripts, at least there was some narrative.

I don't know what the attraction is to this style but it takes long paragraphs to describe what can be done in a normal well constructed sentence - see American Tabloid for an example of how a book like can be written wonderfully I might add. It got so all I was really reading was the action and my brain was starting to cut parts out because it is just tedious to read.

I might have to try it again because the story is so good I really want to see how it progresses but for right now I have to give it break.

Book on Tape Cassette
Quick delivery; have no comment on tape quality because I have yet to listen to the book.

Pretty Good, Not Ellroy's Best
The Cold Six Thousand is James Ellroy's hardboiled account of the seamy side of the 1960s. In Ellroy's fictional account, the murders of JFK, Martin Luther King, and RFK were all the work of underworld figures and the FBI. This is a good book, but the implausible plot keeps me from rating it higher than three stars.

Readers who are familiar with Ellroy's work will not be surprised by the book's strengths. Ellroy has the ability to write a novel with a twisted plot that comes together in the end. Another strong aspect of The Cold Six Thousand is Ellroy's sense of pacing; the novel moves throughout all of its 670+ pages.

Unfortunately, The Cold Six Thousands has some weaknesses. The violence is unremitting and very nasty. Ellroy spares the reader no details and the gore overflows at times. I also thought that Ellroy's tendency tend to use historical figures as characters was unsatisfying; none of the people in Ellroy's books are alive to defend themselves against Ellroy's vicious attacks on their good names.

Ellroy's fans will not want to miss this one. But he has written much better books.

Addictive once started.
I wasn't prepared for the style of writing here, short two and three word sentences, lots of short statements about what was going on, without a lot of extra description or extended dialogue.I almost put it down for good after the first few pages, but I was pleasantly surprised with how good and entertaining it turned out to be.

This was the first by this author, so I guess I should have started elsewhere, but I felt the work stood alone without a problem.

There is plenty of violence and rough language in this book, but it shows a side of the sixties that probably existed for many just as depicted.It is interesting to juxtapose race relations and mob activity in the sixties with how it is today.

I definitely recommend this to those that like historically set crime fiction, with lots of action, violence and depravity.I'll be looking for more by this author myself. ... Read more

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If you love submarine novels, this one's for you!
I've read a number of submarine novels and this, in my opinion, is the best one yet.It would make an excellent film.It has everything you could ask for:strongly defined characters, suspense, excellent technical explanations about the design, machinery, and running, etc., of a nuclear sub, political struggles both within and outside of the United States, and the common ground sometimes found between submariners of different countries' navies.It's gripping, satisfying and moving.

Cold Choices
I don't like to start off in a critical vein particularly when one considers the time and effort spent by an author in developing his story but I felt this rendition left me little choice.This submariner story by Larry Bond leaves much to be desired.If indeed he co-authored with Clancy on "Red Storm Rising", it is certainly not reflected in this effort. "Cold Choices" is too lenghty and too boring and borders on being a complete flop.The plot and story line are nowhere near his prior writings which were sharp and concise and held your interest throughout.

"Cold Choices" begins with the possibility of a well told submarine story, but soon deteriorates into an almost "sunk and lost" submarine story.Larry has done better in his previous writings but somehow, I think, lost his touch in this rendition.I am sure he will and can do much better in a future endeavor when he opts to go that route.I look forward to that day.

E.J. Walden, author of " Operation Snow Owl"

A tear to this old soldier's eye ...
I'm late to the party on this one - reading it in paperback.

I had the honor of meeting Larry Bond at a Las Vegas Consumer electronics Show in the late 1980's. He was there to sell his new computer game "Harpoon". As a serving Army Intelligence Officer at the time we had a brief conversation about the future of computer war gaming which I entered into the very next year. I've been a fan of his ever since.

The book has very well developed characters who interact well in a fast paced story. Even a retired Army Officer like me was able to pick up the Navy vernacular, synonyms and methodology. Equally developed were the Russian Naval staff ... Bond drawing on Russian military non-response to both the Kursk disaster - as well as the antics of the Russian Air Force shooting down Korean Airlines 007 with an American Congressman from Georgia aboard.

As a person of Russian extraction (2nd Generation American) the development of Russian Navy Wives and Mothers came directly from the post-Kursk hearings and a good peek into the Russian Psyche. The use of the internet had much more effect in the novel than the protests from the families of the Kursk.

Whether or not we maintain a technological lead on the remnants of the Russian Navy is indeed speculation. The technology war continues.

The antics of the puzzle palaces that make up the decision making apparatus of the US Armed Forces remains real as I remember it - just different uniforms dishing out the same old bureaucratic non-decision making slop. Only in a novel can real decision making occur.

A very troubling aspect of the novel made me uneasy - as I kept up with the antics of the characters involved I kept on reflecting on 'something'. Having recently read "Blind Man's Bluff" and other books on the fate of the USS Scorpion and Thresher ... I was blown away by Bond's very last page content- about the names of his characters ... brought a tear to this old soldiers eye.

Very good techno-thriller
My wife and I both enjoyed this book a great deal, although I don't think I can quite go for five stars. The action is authentic and continuous. The author really knows his stuff, and that comes through. I see some recent reviews complaining about unexplained terminology. Neither of us has any military or nautical background and we had no trouble with that, nor did we even notice anything hard to understand. The subject matter inescapably reminds me of Clancy's Hunt for Red October, but this book isn't so bloated and overwritten. Bond wisely refrains from Clancy's tendency toward polemics. This is just a good techno-thriller about our submariners and the risks they face. I appreciate them much more after reading this book.

garden variety
In an effort to write authentically, these authors bombard the reader with unexplained and unexplainable jargon. Later, authenticity is abandoned for dramatic effect.
Characters are well developed, I actually shared their suffering.
Putting daisies into gun barrels is useful idiocy, I guess. (The heroine saves the day by forcibly educating the bad old male dinosaurs, of whom I am chief) ... Read more

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The Edgar, Shamus, and Anthony award-winning Rick Riordan delivers a spellbinding novel of a man on an edge so extreme that his fall will destroy not only him—but all that he holds dear.

Cold Springs

Chadwick’s life was balanced on a knife’s edge—his career, his marriage, his relationship with his dangerously troubled daughter.And then one autumn night, the worst possible thing happened….

Now, a decade later, Chadwick’s heart is on the mend.Working for an old military buddy, he saves kids for a living, escorting troubled teens to a Texas wilderness school that specializes in the toughest brand of love.

Until he gets a phone call that threatens to shatter his new life.

Mallory Zedman is taking the same terrible path Chadwick’s own daughter once took.Defiant and out of control, Mallory is determined to destroy herself and anyone who tries to stop her.No sooner does Chadwick snatch her off the streets than he discovers she is wanted for questioning in a brutal murder—a slaying that seems directly linked to Chadwick’s past.To save Mallory, tough love will not be enough.Chadwick must find the truth behind the murder—and in doing so revisit the infidelities, shattered promises, and violent passions that cracked his world apart.And he must jeopardize the one thing he still has left to lose—a slim hope of redemption.Amazon.com Review
Aptly subtitled "A Novel of Secrets," this dark, probing tale examines the destructive ripple effects of a child's death on those around her--especially after doubts arise whether it was accident, suicide, or murder. In the harrowing opening pages, 16-year-old Katherine Chadwick ODs on heroin while babysitting little Mallory, daughter of her parents' best friends. Then the tale leaps forward nine years: both couples' marriages are in ruins; Katherine's father, once a schoolteacher, is now a bruising "escort" for a reform school in the Texas outback called Cold Springs; and his next assignment is to capture none other than Mallory, now 15 and in trouble.

Texas native Riordan, whose Tres Navarre series has earned acclaim and awards, evokes the landscapes around Cold Springs with vividness and authority, and also brings that sensibility to the book's Bay Area scenes:

Chadwick ... stepped out into the growing gloom of the evening. Down the block, he could hear the lowrider cruising, its stereo setting off car alarms all across the neighborhood like a bloodhound flushing quail.

Customer Reviews (19)

Disappointed
I had read the Percy Jackson series and absolutely loved it. I was intrigued by the desciption of Cold Springs. I was terribly disappointed with the swearing (f-word) within the first three pages! I didn't even read the whole first chapter before tossing the book - yes, the swearing was offensive enough to me to trash the book! If you are looking for a "clean" book, this is not it. I'm sure the story is great, but the language completely ruined it for me.

Chilling Story of Interwoven Families and Tragedy
Every parent's worst nightmare is the gifted child who turns self-destructive overnight.When 16 year old Katherine Chadwick overdoses on heroin, her parents' lives are turned upsidedown. Nine years later, the story threatens to repeat itself as 15 year old Mallory Zedman, the girl Katherine was babysitting the night she died, becomes involved with the younger brother of Katherine's dealer/boyfriend. For Katherine's father, now working for a bootcamp for troubled teens in Texas, saving Mallory offers up a chance to redeem the loss of his daughter.

This is a story of three tragically interwoven families. The Chadwicks are an upwardly mobile family consisting of a teacher father and an accountant mother whose lives are torn apart by the death of their daughter.The Zedmans are a privileged family with an investor father, a headmistress mother and another troubled daughter. The Montroses are a family with a mother who is murdered early in the story, two drug dealing sons and a missing daughter. The connections between the familes are toxic. Chadwick the father was having an affair with Zedman the mother.Chadwick and Zedman's daughters were each dating different drug dealing members of the Montrose family.Chadwick the father is haunted by the death of his daughter and the romance with his high school friend Ann Zedman which died stillborn.Zedman the father is harried by a sinister blackmailer and angst over his troubled daughter. Finally, there are Mallory Zedman and Race Montrose, the Romeo and Juliet of the story, who must find a way to avoid destiny and live to adulthood.

Rick Riordan has woven an intricately layered plot which juggles the stories of the three families and the locations in California and Texas. This is a great mystery story because it unfolds enough details to keep the reader guessing without telegraphing the final resolution.

Twists and Turns!
I thought I had figured it out at least 10 or 15 times and was still completely astounded by the ending of this book!What a ride!This was great fun!

The book was readable, the characters interesting, But. . .
I realize Cold Springs is a novel - and so not bound by truth. However, I find the positive depiction of teen help boot camps, and escort services, disturbing and worrisome. Any parent with a drug addled kid, who happen to get ahold of this book, would likely be sent looking for a boot camp and escorts.The abuse and gross neglect, so common to these programs was not represented in its true light.
The girl the story revolves around was treated brutally; did resort to killing and eating an armadillo; did have to wear her menstrual flow stained clothes; but this was all to the good (rolling eyes) and she was saved from herself as a result. *Sigh*
Also, the escort the story revolves around was a murderer - but only of bad guys.
I would like to suggest to those buying this book,also buy a copy of :
"Help at Any Cost", how the troubled teen industry cons parents and hurts kids; by Maia Szalavitz.
Or, simply Google Aaron Bacon, the death of. Or Michelle Sutton, the death of. Or Nicholas Contreras, the death of.
Read about the realities, if your going to read the pro brutality fluff pieces.

A big letdown
After reading "The Devil Went Down to Austin" I was excited to discover Rick Riordan.Good writing and well-drawn characters.Cold Springs was a huge disappointment. The characters were neither very believeable nor were they likeable. Chadwick just didn't ring true and the daughters? -- tell me again why copying Katherine's addictive behavior was so compelling to Mallory? The story was a muddle. ... Read more

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Leslie Parrish introduces Extrasensory Agents, a band of psychic investigators interested only in the cases nobody else wants-the coldest ones...

After being made a scapegoat in a botched investigation that led to a child's death, Aidan McConnell became a recluse. Still, as a favor to an old friend, Aidan will help on the occasional ESA case.

Reporter Lexie Nolan has a nose for news-and she believes a serial killer has been targeting teen girls around Savannah, but no one believes her. So she turns to the new paranormal detective agency and the sexy, mysterious Aidan for help. But just as the two begin forging a relationship, the case turns eerily personal for Lexie-and Aidan discovers that maybe he hasn't lost the ability to feel after all. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (7)

GREAT SUSPENSE
This book kept me on the edge of my seat - I highly recommend it and cannot wait for Ms. Parrish's next book.

Excellent new author
This e-book had me from the second page, I found it hard to putdown because I couldn't resist the mystery. Love this kind of author that I just stumbled upon, I'm looking forward to the next book, trying to find out if there are others by this same person that I've missed. Gave it five stars just for excitement factor.If it's a first book, it's a keeper! Love my Kindle, don't know how i ever lived without it!!!!!!!!!!

Cold Sight
Aidan McConnell needed to get away from the world after a botched investigation/rescue was pinned on him. Getting away from anyone who might recognize his name was very important when Aidan picked out Granville to move to. This might have worked, except Aidan had to take his psychic abilities with him. Those abilities are not willing to take a vacation when Aidan is contacted by the last person he wants to talk to - a reporter.

Lexie Nolan is a reporter for the local paper. She knows news and how to scent it out. Lexie was hot onto the disappearance and deaths of several teens from their area when she was shut down, however, Lexie is not one to turn her back on what she believes is a serial killer hiding in their small town. Looking for any new angle, Lexie decides to brave approaching Aidan. She knows that after what Aidan was just put through, he might slam the door and not give her a chance but she has to at least try.

Aidan absolutely doesn't want anything to do with Lexie, her story, or the disappearance of the latest teen. But that changes in one instant and Aidan agrees to do what he can. The risks turn worse and it's obvious that someone doesn't want Lexie or Aidan to solve the mystery and find the killer. All the while both of them are tentatively stepping into a relationship neither expected to find.Aidan calls in friends - all members of a paranormal detective agency who can find out things others can't. The clock is ticking for several reasons as Aidan and Lexie search for a serial killer and look for a way to unlock their future together.

Take a man who doesn't want to feel and a woman who feels all too well and you have a team that can't be beat. Cold Sight combines Lexie's doggedness and Aidan's gifts to search for, and catch, a serial killer. I was struck by the varied differences between Aidan and Lexie from the beginning; she wanted to hunt out the killer and he just wanted to be left alone. A slow build up of their passion added to the suspenseful plot that succeeded in pulling me in and making me wonder just who was behind it. There was a couple of shocking twists that I had not expected but proves that you just can't take a small and sleepy town by its appearances. The beginning was a bit slow for me, but I found it well worth forging forward and found an ending that had me wanting the next book immediately. I loved meeting the other members of the team and can't wait to see what their stories will be. Cold Sight mixes deadly suspense with touches of humor, passion, and psychic abilities in a way that will have you leaning in your seat as the pages are turned.


Jo
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4 1/2 Hearts from TRS!
Cold Sight is dark, edgy, gut-wrenchingly painful at times, and one of the best romantic suspense books of the year. The paranormal element is very light and I wonder if we'll see more in-depth paranormal activity in the future books. The introduction and help of the psychic detectives from eXtreme Investigations, the company Aidan works for, sets up the future books in the series.

I was hooked on this book from the very beginning but once the hero and heroine began their snappy dialogue, I couldn't put it down. I was enthralled by the very serious threat to the teenagers and Lexie and Aidan's intense chemistry. Both Lexie and Aidan were strong characters that had taken a hit professionally. I loved how Lexie was able to understand just what Aidan needed to help him bounce back. Lexie had integrity as a reporter with her main focus being on helping the teenagers. The character building is woven seamlessly into the fast paced plot and you can't tell the difference between the developing romance and the developing plot. It all flows perfectly. Secondary characters like the teenagers are great complements to the plot. Be prepared because the author doesn't spare any expense when it comes to her characters. No character is immune to the knife! The ending of this book is unlike any I've read before. Your emotions will definitely be touched - it haas heartbreaking tragic moments and will spark strong emotions in many readers. You've been warned - now go get this book. I can't wait to read the next Extrasensory Agents book. - Lisa Freeman

entertaining paranormal whodunit
Investigating a string of suspicious runaways, Granville Daily Sun reporter Lexie Nolan considers someone malevolent and sinister is behind the disappearances.As she digs deeper, her boss tells her to drop the story; stunning her as this has never happened before to the investigative journalist.

When another young girl Vonnie vanishes, Lexie knows she cannot live with herself if she quits.Instead she asks former Extrasensory Agent Aidan McConnell to help her find the latest missing person.Aidan informs Lexie he no longer searches for people after his last mission ended disastrously.However reluctantly he agrees to help as he finds himself unable to deny her anything.He has feelings he never allowed himself to have before he met sexy Lexie.They connect as they follow clues to Savannah.

This is an entertaining paranormal whodunit starring an intrepid reporter and a man with telemetric extrasensory psychometric abilities.The changing relationship between the pair is fun to follow as they investigate the abductions and murder.Although the villain is inane, fans will appreciate the first Extrasensory Agent urban fantasy romantic suspense due to the lead characters and Vonnie.

Harriet Klausner
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There was a cold lady who swallowed some snow.I don't know why she swallowed some snow.Perhaps you know.This time, the old lady is swallowing everything from snow to a pipe, some coal, a hat, and more! With rollicking, rhyming text and funny illustrations, this lively version will appeal to young readers with every turn of the page. And this time, there's a surprise at the end no reader will be able to guess! ... Read more

Customer Reviews (8)

Silly spin on a old classic story!
My kids love this book! We listen to the cd and enjoy reading the book. We read it at least once a week!

Anti Smoking
I wish I had read this book before reading it to my 3 year old.I know it might be silly to some, but we're very anti smoking, and our children have never been introduced to smoking of any kind. I had to explain what a pipe was and why people smoke when we read this book.There was also the use of the word puke, or something similar that I just didn't sit well with me. I just didn't like this book- at all.

Book review
THIS BOOK IS REALLY CUTE AND ALWAYS GETS A GOOD LAUGH OUT OF MY DAUGHTER AS WE READ IT TOGETHER. I WOULD HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK BECAUSE IT IS VERY INTERACTIVE AND IMAGINATIVE.

Off Key
I have a collection of "Old Lady Who Swallowed" books and I was a little disappointed when I read this one. The sequence and rhyming are not as fluent as some of the other books. The ending was cute but this book is not as good as the original "Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly"

Surprise ending!
I have begun collecting There was an old lady.... themed books to use with students. This one is one of their favorites because of the alternate ending.. that'sa winter suprpise! Great book to read to young and older students.. one line doesn't rhyme that well, but it can also be used as a teaching point. ... Read more

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A New York Times Bestseller

Carine Winters accepts the job of photographing Sterling Rancourt's historic Boston home knowing she's taking a risk -- she could run into Tyler North, the man who all but left Carine at the altar a year ago. Then Carine finds a body in Rancourt's house -- and the prime suspect in the murder is Tyler North's best friend. Tyler goes to see his friend Manny, expecting him to ask for help. Instead, Manny urges Tyler to protect Carine, to take her back to Cold Ridge, away from the temptations to meddle in a murder investigation.

Available only in Core 6 & 7 ... Read more

Customer Reviews (11)

Couldn't get into it
Set in Cold Ridge, New Hampshire, Carine Winters is 33, a photographer.Her parents died when she was three and she, her brother and sister were raised by their uncle.

Carine has known Tyler North all her life.Ty's single mom was eccentric and not close with anyone.After her death Ty inherited her land and trust fund.He's an Air Force pararescuer.

When Carine unknowingly interrupts a smuggling operation, Ty helps save her.They fell for each other and planned to marry.A week before the wedding Ty backed out.

Meanwhile, one of the smugglers plans revenge on Carine and just about everybody she knows.One of Ty's pararescuer pals is suspected of murder, the pal's son is threatened, the pal's wife is a crybaby breakdown-waiting-to-happen, Carine's sister's husband is a senator, Uncle Gus has a lazy dog . . . this story was a disjointed, convoluted mess.The characters were not likeable and didn't make sense.

I didn't know it was a sequel; just picked it up and started reading.Maybe reading the first book would have made a difference.I read as much as I could and skimmed the rest.

By-the-numbers romantic suspense, with little plot.
Cold Ridge concerns nature photographer Carine Winters discovering a dead body in the home she's photographing, and the conspiracy she gets caught up in as a result. Well, it's not really much of a conspiracy considering that at least 70% of the novel is Carine and her protector Tyler North analysing the break-up of their relationship (he cancelled their wedding a week before it was due to go ahead) over and over again.

In fact, if the character of Manny Carrera had spilled the beans from the get-go, there wouldn't be a book at all. He had absolutely no reason to remain silent the way he did. All he achieved was nearly getting his family killed. The only reason for his silence is to ensure that the author can find some convulated way of getting her two main characters together (Manny is the one who asks Tyler to protect Carine - for no discernible reason) and whack us over the head with 200 odd pages of their romantic angst. Not exactly compelling.

I read the book quite quickly, wasn't terribly bored with it, and thought the climax was effectively done, but I've found more plot complications in pre-teen thrillers. Since I've given far better books than this just two stars, I'm giving this only one star (though it probably deserves one-and-a-half).

KEPT ME UP ALL NIGHT
I love all of Carla Neggers books!They are intelligent and intriguing, suspensful and romancey all at once.Just my cup of tea.

A Real Page-Turner !!!
Cold Ridge by Carla Neggers was a real page-turner.I was rather impressed by this writer.This was the first time I had read anything by her and after reading this story, I can tell you it won't be my last !!!

Can she learn to Trust Again?
Carine had her heart broken bu Tyler North, and due to a hoffifying turn of events it seems he is the only one who can help her and protect her from a killer.Can Carine trust Tyler enough to let him?

This is a wonderfully written book that kept me up until 3 AM.I coudln't put it down.The characters are interesting, entertaining and very believable.The novel has a plenty of suspense and romance and keeps its biggest secrets until the end.This is a great read. ... Read more

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Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (4)

Handy Tool
I really enjoy ALL of the Storey Counrty Wisdom Bulletins, and for a small bulletin, it has a lot to offer. I learned more than I thought I would.

I add notes to my Storey Bulletins, and then it becomes a HANDY TOOL you can use for a SPACIFIC TOPIC. I often take them into the garden with me. I own most of them, and plan to own all of them before too long.

This is a pamphlet really.
This is a very short publication, and possibly dated.I did find thie information interesting, but am not sure quite where to implement this on my property.

Great little book of information for storing foods
This little book has a lot of good information about storing foods.I'd recommend it to anyone who just wants some basic information that doesn't cost an arm and a leg...

Excellent information
Love the Storey Country Wisdom Bulletins. These are great because they are inexpensive and they offer basic useable information that most people can use. Which is more than I can say for some of the more expensive books I have bought.This Bulletin shows how you can either build under home or separate cold storage cellars for year round food storage. As well as using in ground units made from garbage cans with lids to old wooden barrels laid on their sides. As well as Pits and trenches which we have actually used for storing root crops.They also have a section beginning on page 20 where they list alot of vegetables and the best storage method. Beginning on page 26 they list the storage life expectancies of various vegetables.They also wisely caution to NOT store canned goods in cold storage areas. ... Read more