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Blind Influence
***Award Winner at 2015 Paris Book Festival!***
***Award Winner at 2015 Hollywood Book Festival***
Successful, sexy attorney Nicole Charbonneau feels content with her life and career as a star at a powerful law firm in Washington, DC. She is blind, however, to the circumstances that will put her at the center of a web of deceit, murder, power plays and conspiracies. Across the ocean, British MI-6 Agent Sean Adkins is tracking a cold-blooded assassin known as the Serpent, who’s been hired to kill President Andrews. The Serpent cares only for the millions he’ll get, not why the powerful group of men wants Andrews killed.
The Serpent, a master of disguise, completes his job, but will it be his last? Sean will stop at nothing to get revenge, which includes setting a trap. Nicole, through her work and her connection with Robert Jenkins, a powerful young senator who happens to head the Intelligence Committee, pieces together who hired the assassin. Will the senator reveal to the public all he knows, or will revealing the identities of the powerful businessmen, politicians and government officials be too much for a country already in a fragile state?
Blind Influence, set in 1979 when the United States was on the brink of its second oil crisis, takes readers on a wild ride of political intrigue and personal discovery.
***Award Winner at 2015 Hollywood Book Festival***
Successful, sexy attorney Nicole Charbonneau feels content with her life and career as a star at a powerful law firm in Washington, DC. She is blind, however, to the circumstances that will put her at the center of a web of deceit, murder, power plays and conspiracies. Across the ocean, British MI-6 Agent Sean Adkins is tracking a cold-blooded assassin known as the Serpent, who’s been hired to kill President Andrews. The Serpent cares only for the millions he’ll get, not why the powerful group of men wants Andrews killed.
The Serpent, a master of disguise, completes his job, but will it be his last? Sean will stop at nothing to get revenge, which includes setting a trap. Nicole, through her work and her connection with Robert Jenkins, a powerful young senator who happens to head the Intelligence Committee, pieces together who hired the assassin. Will the senator reveal to the public all he knows, or will revealing the identities of the powerful businessmen, politicians and government officials be too much for a country already in a fragile state?
Blind Influence, set in 1979 when the United States was on the brink of its second oil crisis, takes readers on a wild ride of political intrigue and personal discovery.
273 pages, Paperback
First published March 30, 2015
About the author
Linda Riesenberg Fisler
20 books72 followersWhen four-time award-winning author and artist Linda Riesenberg Fisler isn’t working on her next book, she is painting in her studio or riding her Trek bicycle along the many bike trails in Ohio. The former Fortune 500 consumer products manager explores art through her worldwide Internet radio show, “Art Chats with Linda Fisler.” Linda has been creative since childhood, writing stories and scripts for movies and TV shows to entertain friends. She discovered oil painting in the 1990s and began trying to express words visually.
Vowing never to test toilet paper again (yes, there's a story there!), Linda now enjoys the creative life of writing, creating book covers using her artist skills, and painting beauty with palette knives on large canvases. She teaches both self-publishing and oil painting at the Middletown Arts Centers.
Vowing never to test toilet paper again (yes, there's a story there!), Linda now enjoys the creative life of writing, creating book covers using her artist skills, and painting beauty with palette knives on large canvases. She teaches both self-publishing and oil painting at the Middletown Arts Centers.
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May 17, 2015
A classic spy page turner....thrills & spills to the very last page!
July 21, 2015
To give four stars to a book that begins a series feels like being a traitor to what I always claim, meaning a book should be complete by itself. Here, you know it cannot be finished, because so many questions remain.
But it does make a nice read, as an adventure/thriller. You go through it quickly and you are left wanting the next one, to know who is behind all those actions. Think of the USA at the end of the '70s, with the Iranian revolution and the second oil crisis and add more thrills and suspense than we had in real life plus a deadly assassin, involve the CIA, the FBI and MI6, give a good mix and you have he beginning of the plot.
I really enjoyed the ride, and just regret the book is not twice as thick to tell you the rest of the adventures of Nicole, Sean and Bobby.
But it does make a nice read, as an adventure/thriller. You go through it quickly and you are left wanting the next one, to know who is behind all those actions. Think of the USA at the end of the '70s, with the Iranian revolution and the second oil crisis and add more thrills and suspense than we had in real life plus a deadly assassin, involve the CIA, the FBI and MI6, give a good mix and you have he beginning of the plot.
I really enjoyed the ride, and just regret the book is not twice as thick to tell you the rest of the adventures of Nicole, Sean and Bobby.
December 22, 2024
This is a non-stop spy thriller that totally hooked me in. At first it seemed like there are too many characters and I wondered if I would keep them all straight, but then the action started and the line between good guys and bad guys was drawn........ or was it? It is a spy mystery after all, so you have to wonder who might be hiding a big secret. The power plays of Washington DC politicians, corporate greed and a handful of people trying to do the right thing felt all too relevant to current events. The book is the first in the series and I can see all the loose threads that will be moved forward into the next book. I will get to #2, just not yet.
June 3, 2015
I was given a free copy of this book, in exchange for an honest review.
Blind Influence has something for everyone. There is suspense, action, cat and mouse chases, murders, investigations, back stabbing, mystery and much more.
It is set in a political world with the President, Vice President and Senator’s all having a role. The book switches between London and the USA. It immerses you in the politics of Washington DC, yet doesn't get so overly complicated that you won’t understand what is going on.
Nicole Charbonneau, the protagonist, is feisty, fearless, determined, wise and intelligent, mixed in with an air of sophistication and sexiness. She is a lawyer, a brilliant lawyer, tackling high profiled cases, but her luck changes when she witnesses the Serpent kill her friend Carol, she has seen his face and can place him at the scene, which makes her one of his targets, but she won’t be taken down easily, and certainly not without a fight.
Sean Adkins is an MI-6 agent tracking the deadly Serpent, to bring him to justice, not just for the people he’s about to kill but for his family who fell victim to him. His calling card is to fork the tongues of his victims, and he doesn't care who you are, male, female, young or old, if you’re on his radar there is little chance of survival. He’s ruthless and cold blooded, and every bone in his body is evil.
The plot is engrossing and gripping and totally nail biting in parts. It had me on the edge of my seat at various points in the story, yet I found it thoroughly entertaining. There are twists and turns throughout, and the story deviated numerous times from the path that I thought it was travelling on.
This is Linda’s début novel, though you wouldn't know from her writing. The book is powerful and hits you right from the first page. It sucks you in and holds you in its pages.
There are a lot of characters in the book and it is full of dialogue, which I feel is the only downside, but this doesn't take anything away from the amazing plot.
Blind Influence reminded me a lot of Robert Ludlum’s Jason Bourne novels, but in a more political and gritty manner.
The ending opens the book up for a sequel and I feel that there is a brilliant film waiting to be made from this novel.
If you love spy thrillers, you’ll love Blind Influence.
Blind Influence has something for everyone. There is suspense, action, cat and mouse chases, murders, investigations, back stabbing, mystery and much more.
It is set in a political world with the President, Vice President and Senator’s all having a role. The book switches between London and the USA. It immerses you in the politics of Washington DC, yet doesn't get so overly complicated that you won’t understand what is going on.
Nicole Charbonneau, the protagonist, is feisty, fearless, determined, wise and intelligent, mixed in with an air of sophistication and sexiness. She is a lawyer, a brilliant lawyer, tackling high profiled cases, but her luck changes when she witnesses the Serpent kill her friend Carol, she has seen his face and can place him at the scene, which makes her one of his targets, but she won’t be taken down easily, and certainly not without a fight.
Sean Adkins is an MI-6 agent tracking the deadly Serpent, to bring him to justice, not just for the people he’s about to kill but for his family who fell victim to him. His calling card is to fork the tongues of his victims, and he doesn't care who you are, male, female, young or old, if you’re on his radar there is little chance of survival. He’s ruthless and cold blooded, and every bone in his body is evil.
The plot is engrossing and gripping and totally nail biting in parts. It had me on the edge of my seat at various points in the story, yet I found it thoroughly entertaining. There are twists and turns throughout, and the story deviated numerous times from the path that I thought it was travelling on.
This is Linda’s début novel, though you wouldn't know from her writing. The book is powerful and hits you right from the first page. It sucks you in and holds you in its pages.
There are a lot of characters in the book and it is full of dialogue, which I feel is the only downside, but this doesn't take anything away from the amazing plot.
Blind Influence reminded me a lot of Robert Ludlum’s Jason Bourne novels, but in a more political and gritty manner.
The ending opens the book up for a sequel and I feel that there is a brilliant film waiting to be made from this novel.
If you love spy thrillers, you’ll love Blind Influence.
May 18, 2015
This was a great read that kept me on the edge of my seat all the way through. I found myself really interested in the fates of these characters and concerned how they were going to stay ahead of the assassin. The author really has a gift for plot development and really moved the plot forward well. Looking forward to more work from Linda Fisler, I suspect a sequel is in the works..
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May 6, 2015I won a copy of this book on Goodreads. Cant wait til it comes in the mail.
January 18, 2026
This was a great read that kept me on the edge of my seat all the way through. I found myself really interested in the fates of these characters and concerned how they were going to stay ahead of the assassin. The author really has a gift for plot development and really moved the plot forward well. Looking forward to more work from Linda Fisler, I suspect a sequel is in the works..
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