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12 Drummers Drumming (Gemstar)
Diana Deverell

Oxmoor House, 2001

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Couldn't Put It Down

Diana Deverell has given us a new heroine, Casey Collins. Ms. Deverell's experience as a US Foreign Service officer makes this book a must read. I picked it up and couldn't put it down. The twists and turns in the plot kept me guessint right to the end. I am going out tomorrow to buy her second book.


12 Drummers Drumming

For over a decade Casey Collins has sought out, confronted and apprehended terrorists. And when a New York-bound flight from England explodes shortly after takeoff, killing all on board, she fears Stefan Krajewski, a Polish operative for the Danish Defense Intelligence and her lover, went down with the plane. Casey immediately flies to England to investigate.

Casey's motives are pure, but her actions quickly become suspect and she's forced underground to prevent capture by her own people. Working with people she neither knows nor trusts, she learns Stefan withheld information that would have influenced her objectivity over the years; secrets that now threaten to destroy her and those she loves. Betrayal...that fine line between love and hate. The cost of betrayal...the number of lives of innocent people lost to kill one operative.

Not once, not twice, but three times she offers herself as bait to catch Reinhardt Kruger, the monster orchestrating the bombings. Not once, but twice she rendezvous with him and twice he has reduced the size of her little band of mercenaries in his wake to escape.

Faced with death on foreign soil by the enemy or imprisonment back in the states by her employer, the US Government, Casey does what she does best. She meets her adversary head on and spits on those responsible for the violence surround her.

Each page is filled with fast-paced suspense and you'll find yourself wondering what's going to happen next. As a former Foreign Service Officer in San Salvador and Poland, Deverell draws on her experience to give authenticity to the settings and nations of people who value human life so little, thereby giving her audience an excellent read.


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Effective spy thriller with more humanity than most.

12 Drummers is engaging, exciting stuff, recalling the thrills and chills of LeCarre and Deighton. But here, the dusty old men's club is aired out, and human connections have real substance. (So does the food!) A great read for a winter evening.


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Casey Collins, a U. S. Foreign Service officer, is thrown into a maelstrom of agony when she learns a New York bound flight from England exploded soon after takeoff, like a grim Lockerbie Two. Casey fears that her lover Stefan Krajewski, a Polish operative for Danish Defense Intelligence, was on the ill-fated flight and promptly flies to Europe to learn the truth. But she is swiftly embroiled in a twisted series of events that paint her as a terrorist conspirator and a suspect in the airline bombing. Discredited by her own State Department, pursued by the FBI, wanted by Interpol, Casey is a fugitive whose only protection is a small band of skilled agents operating outside of the law.

With her career and credibility in ruins, Casey has only one chance to bring the malicious mastermind behind the bombing to justice before he can massacre any more innocent people. Setting herself up as a fake mediator for U. S. interests, she conceives a dangerous strategy for gaining access to her target. Hurled into a relentless, death-dealing mission, she senses a multi-leveled web of deception tightening around her, forcing her to rely on people she neither knows nor trusts--any one of whom might sacrifice her life for his own corrupt motives.

In the pulsating tradition of Robert Ludlum and Helen MacInnes comes an electrifying international thriller, a breakneck race against time to prevent a wave of airborne terrorism. Writer Diana Deverell goes behind today's explosive headlines and takes readers on a whirlwind international chase as a lone woman stands between a diabolical terrorist and the completion of his deadly master plan.


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