David Lindsey

Requiem for a Glass Heart (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Irina Ismaylova kills people . But she doesn't kill for pleasure, or money, or to save her own life. She kills at the behest of Sergei Krupatin, a Russian crime lord who exerts a shadowy, heartless hold over her. Desperate to escape his madness, Irina has no choice but to believe his promise to free her . . . after one last mission for him. But she soon learns her odds of surviving her new assignment seem improbable.

FBI Special Agent Cate Cuevas has just learned of a devastating personal betrayal by her recently slain husband. Crushed and shaken, she jumps at the chance to divert her misery by accepting the most challenging and dangerous undercover assignment of her career.

The leaders of three great international crime organizations are planning a secret meeting in Houston. The implications are stunning. The FBI's only chance to stop this ominous alliance depends upon Cate being able to infiltrate the Russian contingent. And her odds of surviving are nearly as bleak as Irina's. And ironically, Irina is her target.

But when Cate and Irina meet, each playing her clandestine role and maneuvering through layers of lies and deceptions toward their objectives, they discover a mutual and powerful empathy for each other.

As the two women fight to survive amidst the elaborate and cunning stratagems of violent men who are using them, their relationship becomes an ever-more-intricate dance of the heart, and neither woman foresees the consequences. Only one of them survives. But they remain forever united through the life of a little girl.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: David Lindsey
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781963821079
• Artikelnr.: 73720284

Autorenporträt

I'm a native Texan, and I spent my early years a few miles from the Mexican border in Starr County. Eventually my family moved to West Texas where I grew up in the oil fields and ranches of the Colorado River valley northwest of San Angelo. After graduating from North Texas State University and spending a year in graduate school (focusing on 19th century European literature), I moved to Austin in 1970 where my wife, Joyce, and I still live.

I took an editing job with a small regional press and spent the next decade knocking around in a variety of jobs, including running my own small publishing company for a few years, and editing books in the humanities for the University of Texas Press.

Finally, in 1980, I decided I couldn't wait any longer to try my hand at fiction. I decided to increase my odds of getting published by researching what kinds of fiction had the best chance of finding a publisher. Mystery novels rose to the top of my research results. I don't think I'd ever read a "mystery novel" at that time, but I immediately bought a representative collection of twenty-five popular, famous, and classic mystery novels, including British and European writers. After reading these, and many more, I realized that the "genre" encompassed a startling variety of work, everything from Mickey Spillane to Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Two years later I began my writing career by publishing two mystery novels in the same year. Though I began writing in the mystery/crime genre, the subject matter of the books always leaned into the psychological aspects of human nature. I eventually went on to write fiction in other areas, including thrillers with international settings dealing with national and private intelligence professions.

When I'm not writing, I spend most of my time in my library filled with books predominately in the areas of literature, history, religion and art. My other pleasure is gardening and landscape work where I live in the hilly streets of West Lake Hills (Austin). it's a great pleasure to watch things grow. Joyce and I now sit in the shade of trees that are forty feet tall that we planted when we first moved to this place over thirty-five years ago. That's a good thing.