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Dangerous Deception
Some secrets are worth dying to protect …
Professor John Raymond lies paralysed and unable to speak.
His colleague, brilliant young medical researcher Breeanna Montgomery, is attacked by a shotgun-wielding stranger. Before the night is over, the man is killed, and Breeanna is fleeing from someone even more ruthless … and deadly.
Have those secrets already cost a life?
Rogan McKay’s search for his missing brother forces him into a dangerous act of deception as the trail leads him to Breanna. When he confronts her, a shocking chain of events reveals her family’s dark secrets.
One man’s dream becomes another’s nightmare …
Nothing Rogan discovers about this woman will be as astounding as the truth behind the experiment Professor Raymond was trying to hide …
Professor John Raymond lies paralysed and unable to speak.
His colleague, brilliant young medical researcher Breeanna Montgomery, is attacked by a shotgun-wielding stranger. Before the night is over, the man is killed, and Breeanna is fleeing from someone even more ruthless … and deadly.
Have those secrets already cost a life?
Rogan McKay’s search for his missing brother forces him into a dangerous act of deception as the trail leads him to Breanna. When he confronts her, a shocking chain of events reveals her family’s dark secrets.
One man’s dream becomes another’s nightmare …
Nothing Rogan discovers about this woman will be as astounding as the truth behind the experiment Professor Raymond was trying to hide …
297 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2005
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Sandy Curtis
25 books40 followersSandy Curtis lives on Queensland’s Central Coast, not far from the beach where she loves to walk and mull over the intricate plots in her novels. Her husband says he doesn’t know how she keeps it all in her head, and her friends think she must be far more devious than she appears.
Actually, after having dealt with the chaos involved in rearing three children, dogs, cats, guinea pigs, and a kookaburra (teaching it to fly was murder), creating complex characters, fast-paced action and edge-of-your-seat suspense is a breeze for Sandy.
At fourteen she wrote a story about a pickpocket who steals a wallet from an off-duty cop. To make sure her details were authentic, she wrote to Police Headquarters asking them about fingerprints. Her mother received a phone call wanting confirmation the query was genuine, and as Sandy hadn’t told her about the letter (or the story), she nearly had a heart attack thinking her daughter was in trouble with the law.
Sandy’s query resulted in an invitation to tour Police Headquarters with her teacher and several schoolfriends and meet the Police Commissioner. That’s when she learned that although the pen might be mightier than the sword, it does nothing to imbue self-confidence in an extremely nervous fourteen-year-old who had to shake the hand of Queensland’s top cop.
“All my pocket money and birthday money went on purchasing books,” Sandy says. “I devoured them. My aunt and uncle used to let me borrow their Saturday Evening Post (American version) and Reader’s Digest. In one Saturday Evening Post I read a story called “The Answer” by Philip Wylie, about a nuclear explosion which kills an angel and the Defence Force’s efforts to prove it was ‘really an alien being’. I was so impressed with the story I decided that one day I would become a story-teller like Philip Wylie.”
Interviewers often ask Sandy to describe her normal writing day. “Normal is when the chaos in my life subsides to frantic rather than frenzied. I once told a friend that I must have a chaos attractor glued on my forehead and she said that creativity hovers on the edge of chaos, to which I replied that I’d long ago fallen off the edge into the middle.”
Her various occupations, from private secretary to assistant to a Bore Licensing Inspector, as well as hitch-hiking around New Zealand and learning to parachute, have given Sandy lots of people and research skills. It’s the paperwork going feral in her office she has trouble with.
Actually, after having dealt with the chaos involved in rearing three children, dogs, cats, guinea pigs, and a kookaburra (teaching it to fly was murder), creating complex characters, fast-paced action and edge-of-your-seat suspense is a breeze for Sandy.
At fourteen she wrote a story about a pickpocket who steals a wallet from an off-duty cop. To make sure her details were authentic, she wrote to Police Headquarters asking them about fingerprints. Her mother received a phone call wanting confirmation the query was genuine, and as Sandy hadn’t told her about the letter (or the story), she nearly had a heart attack thinking her daughter was in trouble with the law.
Sandy’s query resulted in an invitation to tour Police Headquarters with her teacher and several schoolfriends and meet the Police Commissioner. That’s when she learned that although the pen might be mightier than the sword, it does nothing to imbue self-confidence in an extremely nervous fourteen-year-old who had to shake the hand of Queensland’s top cop.
“All my pocket money and birthday money went on purchasing books,” Sandy says. “I devoured them. My aunt and uncle used to let me borrow their Saturday Evening Post (American version) and Reader’s Digest. In one Saturday Evening Post I read a story called “The Answer” by Philip Wylie, about a nuclear explosion which kills an angel and the Defence Force’s efforts to prove it was ‘really an alien being’. I was so impressed with the story I decided that one day I would become a story-teller like Philip Wylie.”
Interviewers often ask Sandy to describe her normal writing day. “Normal is when the chaos in my life subsides to frantic rather than frenzied. I once told a friend that I must have a chaos attractor glued on my forehead and she said that creativity hovers on the edge of chaos, to which I replied that I’d long ago fallen off the edge into the middle.”
Her various occupations, from private secretary to assistant to a Bore Licensing Inspector, as well as hitch-hiking around New Zealand and learning to parachute, have given Sandy lots of people and research skills. It’s the paperwork going feral in her office she has trouble with.
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November 30, 2014
Rogan McKay woke in excruciating pain! He was sure he was having a heart attack…in an instant the pain had gone, but then it was back. After surviving the grip of this pain, the realization that his twin brother was in trouble struck him…the pain was his pain. Was he dead, is that why the pain had stopped?
Professor John Raymond was travelling home through Melbourne, extremely stressed and very tired. The work he had been doing was finally complete, but he needed to hide his work, he wasn’t ready to tell anyone just yet. When he was suddenly unable to grip the steering wheel properly, when movement ceased and he drifted into the path of an oncoming vehicle, his thoughts were of his wife...she was correct, he had been overdoing it.
Professor Raymond’s colleague, young medical researcher Breeanna Montgomery was suddenly and unexpectedly on the run after being attacked by a brutal man with a gun, who ended up dead himself. With his killer now after her, she had no idea who to trust, so decided to disappear while she tried to stay alive, plus trying to work out what on earth was happening.
Rogan headed to Melbourne to search for his brother, and the nightmare began. The deception which he began to uncover led him to Breeanna and her family…the danger to Rogan’s life, and the lives of those around him was intense. As with Breeanna, he had no idea who to trust…then when they worked together…did they even trust each other? And what was it that Professor Raymond was hiding?
What a gripping, brilliant tale! I really enjoyed this, and the twists were superb. I have only recently discovered Sandy Curtis, but I will continue to read her thrillers with great enjoyment!
Professor John Raymond was travelling home through Melbourne, extremely stressed and very tired. The work he had been doing was finally complete, but he needed to hide his work, he wasn’t ready to tell anyone just yet. When he was suddenly unable to grip the steering wheel properly, when movement ceased and he drifted into the path of an oncoming vehicle, his thoughts were of his wife...she was correct, he had been overdoing it.
Professor Raymond’s colleague, young medical researcher Breeanna Montgomery was suddenly and unexpectedly on the run after being attacked by a brutal man with a gun, who ended up dead himself. With his killer now after her, she had no idea who to trust, so decided to disappear while she tried to stay alive, plus trying to work out what on earth was happening.
Rogan headed to Melbourne to search for his brother, and the nightmare began. The deception which he began to uncover led him to Breeanna and her family…the danger to Rogan’s life, and the lives of those around him was intense. As with Breeanna, he had no idea who to trust…then when they worked together…did they even trust each other? And what was it that Professor Raymond was hiding?
What a gripping, brilliant tale! I really enjoyed this, and the twists were superb. I have only recently discovered Sandy Curtis, but I will continue to read her thrillers with great enjoyment!
February 27, 2012
am loving it so far the same as sandy curtis other books i have already finished.
January 25, 2013
Loved it - imagine if such a discovery really did happen! It left you wondering who the good guys were and who the bad buys were right up until the end.
May 24, 2016
awesome!
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