Jane Whitefield is Back on the Job

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	• The face changers: A Jane Whitefield novel Thomas Perry Ballantine Pub. Group, 1999 - 422 pages average customer review:based on 29 reviews
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highly recommended

Jane Whitefield is Back on the Job

Native American (she's part Seneca) Jane Whitefield has stopped guiding people in danger to safe locations because of a promise she made her new husband Dr. Carey McKinnon. She'd spent the better part of a decade helping those in danger disappear and take on new lives, getting them new papers and teaching them how to stay hidden, now she's finished with that. Or is she?

Now it's her husband of all people who wants her to get back in the saddle and take up her dangerous work once more. His mentor, a famous plastic surgeon, is close to making a medical break though, but he's wanted for a murder he didn't commit. While helping him Jane learns that a group of face-changers are using her name, techniques and underground reputation to prey on innocents in trouble and destroy their lives rather than save them. Jane has to unmask them and put them out of business before they harm anyone else.

Reviewed by Vesta Irene

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Not as good as the previous

Thomas Perry is an amazing writer, but somehow I didn't feel that this latest venture meets his high standards. There is the usual Jane Whitefield dance with her evil pursuers, close calls, and a subtext that you don't figure out till the end. Neverthless, the fact that Jane is performing her magic not out of her devotion to her work, but because she is somewhat reluctantly pushed into it, robs the story of its customary magic. Thomas, let Jane live out a quiet life with her husband, and write about Jane's earlier adventures instead.

The only thing I can't figure out is - how did Thomas Perry go from writing amazing and humorous crime noir like "Metzger's Dog" and the "Butcher's Boy", to the somber (but no less readable) Jane Whitefield?

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Thrilling

I didn't think it possible, but with each new Jane Whitefield book, Thomas Perry creates an even more frightening and exciting scenario than in the previous book. The characters are always fleshed out and believable. Mr. Perry is always worth the time you spend reading his works.

Not up to his usual standards

I've read all of the Jane Whitefield novels so far and this is the first one I found just a bit tedious. However, that said, Perry is still a better mystery writer than 90% of the authors of this genre. My feeling was the book went on a little too long. I like, and have always liked, the utter competence of Jane Whitefield. There doesn't seem to be much that fazes her or puts her off her stride. Not a bad book but the others in this series are just a little tighter and more suspenseful

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The Face Changers

Thomas Perry is a fine writer and his novels are very well-constructed. I think the conceit of an Indian woman who knows how to make people in danger 'disappear' is clever, and his explanations of just how she does it are always interesting and believable. Jane Whitfield is not, however, an entirely believable character. She is just too good: she is never petty or venal or self-indulgent or anything but wise, judicious, strong and virtuous. Thomas Perry makes up for that with his intelligent prose, intricate plotting and his wit. Altogether worth reading.

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Read by Margaret Whitton

With this stunning new novel of suspense, one of America's best writers of thrilling fiction moves to an entirely new level of brilliance and craftsmanship. "The books keep getting better," said Lawrence Block about Thomas Perry's Shadow Woman. But now, in The Face-Changers, Perry combines in a special way the superb storytelling, rich characters, and fine writing that have made his work so highly praised.

The courageous and ingenious Jane Whitefield has worked as a "guide" for over a decade, helping people in danger disappear. Now she has promised her new husband, Dr. Carey McKinnon, that she will never work again. But then Carey's mentor, a famous plastic surgeon, seeks him out, desperate and pursued, wounded and wanted for murder. Carey asks Jane to perform her dangerous magic one last time. But as Jane tries to save her husband's friend, she uncovers the perverse activities of the Face-Changers: Using Jane Whitefield's name, reputation, and techniques, they are destroying human lives rather than saving them.

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