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Limbo Man
FBI Special Agent Vee Frost does not care for Homeland Security's list of job qualifications when they ask to borrow her services. "An experienced agent with a proven track record" is good. "Fluent in Russian" hints of an assignment close to her heart. But "Attractive female, under thirty-five" sends up red flags. Obviously, DHS is asking for services above and beyond the call of duty. But a loan to Homeland Security would look great on her resumé, and it sounds as if they really need her . . .
But when Vee agrees to turn on the charm for a mystery man who may hold the clue to something vital to U. S. security, she never anticipates a chase after two nuclear bombs from the old Soviet arsenal that will take her and the amnesiac Russian arms dealer from New York City to Connecticut, Colorado, New Jersey, and Florida, then on to Siberia and Iran. Nor does she expect to unearth a second personality beneath the façade of the tough arms dealer, Sergei Tokarev. A man with an agenda as hidden as the facts in his brain.
No matter how strong the bond Vee and Sergei form as they chase from one danger to the next, it seems doubtful either of them will live long enough to enjoy a happy ending.
Author's Note: LIMBO MAN and ORANGE BLOSSOMS & MAYHEM were written years apart, and yet the two stories, featuring amnesiac heros, were uploaded back to back. My only excuse: with all the current headlines about Iran's nuclear program, it just seemed the right time for LIMBO MAN to go "live."
But when Vee agrees to turn on the charm for a mystery man who may hold the clue to something vital to U. S. security, she never anticipates a chase after two nuclear bombs from the old Soviet arsenal that will take her and the amnesiac Russian arms dealer from New York City to Connecticut, Colorado, New Jersey, and Florida, then on to Siberia and Iran. Nor does she expect to unearth a second personality beneath the façade of the tough arms dealer, Sergei Tokarev. A man with an agenda as hidden as the facts in his brain.
No matter how strong the bond Vee and Sergei form as they chase from one danger to the next, it seems doubtful either of them will live long enough to enjoy a happy ending.
Author's Note: LIMBO MAN and ORANGE BLOSSOMS & MAYHEM were written years apart, and yet the two stories, featuring amnesiac heros, were uploaded back to back. My only excuse: with all the current headlines about Iran's nuclear program, it just seemed the right time for LIMBO MAN to go "live."
261 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 14, 2012
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Blair Bancroft
63 books54 followersBlair Bancroft is an award-winning author, multi-published in several different romance genres. Her eclectic background includes a career in music, with forays into editing and costume design. She wrote her first novel only after it occurred to her that her mother being a successful author didn't mean she couldn't be one too. Blair has traveled most of the United States and as far away as Siberia and Machu Picchu, with emphasis on touring Great Britain and Ireland, and enjoys using bits of her travel experiences in her books.
Blair’s first book, TARLETON’S WIFE, won RWA’s Golden Heart award. Her traditional Regency, THE INDIFFERENT EARL (now published as THE COURTESAN’S LETTERS) won the Best Regency award from Romantic Times and was a nominee for RWA’s RITA award. She has also won a Best Romance award from the Florida Writers Association and Best YA award from EPIC. To keep things lively, over the last few years Blair has added the genre Regency Gothic and the Space Saga series, Blue Moon Rising, to her list of books.
Blair’s first book, TARLETON’S WIFE, won RWA’s Golden Heart award. Her traditional Regency, THE INDIFFERENT EARL (now published as THE COURTESAN’S LETTERS) won the Best Regency award from Romantic Times and was a nominee for RWA’s RITA award. She has also won a Best Romance award from the Florida Writers Association and Best YA award from EPIC. To keep things lively, over the last few years Blair has added the genre Regency Gothic and the Space Saga series, Blue Moon Rising, to her list of books.
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October 18, 2017
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It seems odd that someone who has led a perfectly safe and relatively uneventful life should have put so much of herself into a Thriller. And yet I've been to every one of the many settings in this book, with the exception of Tehran, Iran. And a surprising amount of the story is based on fact, most particularly the true story of ten nuclear bombs lost in the chaos after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. As the book begins, we don't know if LIMBO MAN is Russian or American, friend or foe, savior or madman. The problem is, he doesn't either, as he's suffered a loss of memory. When FBI agent Vee Frost is asked to accompany him to a safe house and charm his memories out of him, it seems an intriguing assignment, a major plus on her resumé, with minimal risk.
Except, of course, everything goes wrong. Vee and her Man in Limbo find themselves under attack almost immediately and end up chasing over half the world in pursuit of an ancient nuclear weapon, soon to be resurrected to devastate a major U. S. city. But many essential details are still locked inside our Limbo Man's head. As for snatching at romance along the way, how do you reconcile the Montagues and the Capulets? With the Russian mafia rearing its ugly head against both American and Russian interests? So . . . a somewhat whimsical ending for a Thriller. I hope you'll find LIMBO MAN as much fun to read as I did to write.
It seems odd that someone who has led a perfectly safe and relatively uneventful life should have put so much of herself into a Thriller. And yet I've been to every one of the many settings in this book, with the exception of Tehran, Iran. And a surprising amount of the story is based on fact, most particularly the true story of ten nuclear bombs lost in the chaos after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. As the book begins, we don't know if LIMBO MAN is Russian or American, friend or foe, savior or madman. The problem is, he doesn't either, as he's suffered a loss of memory. When FBI agent Vee Frost is asked to accompany him to a safe house and charm his memories out of him, it seems an intriguing assignment, a major plus on her resumé, with minimal risk.
Except, of course, everything goes wrong. Vee and her Man in Limbo find themselves under attack almost immediately and end up chasing over half the world in pursuit of an ancient nuclear weapon, soon to be resurrected to devastate a major U. S. city. But many essential details are still locked inside our Limbo Man's head. As for snatching at romance along the way, how do you reconcile the Montagues and the Capulets? With the Russian mafia rearing its ugly head against both American and Russian interests? So . . . a somewhat whimsical ending for a Thriller. I hope you'll find LIMBO MAN as much fun to read as I did to write.
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