Howard Weiner

The White in the Wind (Blood Relations) (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Foreign intelligence services seek to influence events and outcomes when opportunities arise in other countries. In a bitterly divided U.S. political spectrum, Russia's intelligence services make use of social media to create the illusion of an extensive, powerful left-wing movement known as Antifa. In this installment of the Blood Relations Series, the Russian Federation funds rightwing militia groups to kidnap three Republican governors from midwestern swing states. This kidnapping is allegedly claimed by Antifa which conducts a trial accusing their captives of capitalistic crimes against the citizenry. The governors are sentenced to death.In The White in the Wind, the CIA discovers the Russian GRU role in this charade, but they can neither action on their own nor can they share the information with U.S. law enforcement agencies without compromising sources and methods. Instead, the CIA arranges to have one of its foreign undercover agents, who operates without official recognition abroad, to be discredited and deported back to the U.S. where he takes up residence in Whitefish, Montana. With his old identity restored, he appears to be a person a questionable gap in his history that frustrates the local law enforcement official.The local militia group wields an outsized influence in this small western town. It's only a matter of time before they are in conflict with the Carrullo family who are then drawn into the kidnapping and trial. The resulting struggle is what you'd expect when small town xenophobia collides with the sophisticated assassins in the Carrullo family and their blood relations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Howard Weiner
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798201641870
• Artikelnr.: 62037175

Autorenporträt

Howard Weiner is a recent addition to the literary genre of fiction. Writing mysteries, thrillers, crimes-with a touch of romance-an approach described by one reader as "one bubble off."

Many authors sharing the genre have characters whose fortune is determined by others. They literally have dodged the bullet that otherwise would have killed them. Weiner's characters make their own fortune-good or bad-and they live with the results.

Weiner's own experiences are blessed with no small number of noteworthy characters and events. He brings these slightly off-kilter individuals to life, complete with their own stories and dramas. Like the child prodigy in his first novel, It Is Las Vegas After All, who comes to the starting edge of adulthood and then loses the approval of his doting parents, the sponsorship of one of America's great institutions of higher education, and gains the enmity of his girlfriend's father-an international arms dealer-to become a home-grown terrorist operating on U.S. soil.

A survivor of rich, nuanced bureaucracies in the public and private sector, Weiner writes about characters whose career choices and decisions are morally questionable. A student of personal behavior in complex circumstances, Weiner brings these often cringe-worthy characters to life. Some are amoral, others immoral in a narrow slice of their lives, yet they otherwise look and act like people we all know from work or even childhood. Like one of the female leads in his novel, Serendipity Opportunity, an out-of-the-box thinker who flunks most of life's basic relationship tests, yet she is someone you never want pursuing you in the cause of justice. There's a former foreign security official who uses his protected status as a witness for federal prosecutors to provide cover for his own mayhem and murder in Weiner's third novel, Bad Money.

Many of Weiner's stories are born out of real life events: The mix-up in luggage claim at the airport in, Bad Money, the chronic high school slacker in Serendipity Opportunity whose one stroke of good fortune creates his opportunity to perpetrate a complex series of frauds, or the brilliant student in It Is Las Vegas After All who uses his prodigious talents toward an evil end.