Title: Mists of Adriana
Author: Roger Woodbury
Review:
The story opens with the hero changing the tire of Adriana Burrows, a beautiful
and multi-talented young lawyer. She is
driving a Porsche as does our hero and it is here that the two find a mutual
attraction to each other and to each other’s cars. As the story takes place Adriana becomes a
mystery that our hero, she calls “Lancelot” decides he would really like to
know more about. They become involved
with each other to the point that they fall in love. One little hitch occurs though, she is still
married to the head of a drug cartel in South America and has a young son, or
so she tells him. As their time together goes on he learns more of her situation
and wants to help her find a way out of it, what he doesn't know is that this
all goes back to her job as a lawyer, for someone other than who he believes
she working for. Hint the DEA is
involved in the story along with the CIA which adds a lot of color to the whole
thing.
The story is
well written though I did feel that the author went into a bit too much detail
in some places that did not add anything to the story.
I thought it
would be an intrigue but it was much more of a romance with the intrigue in the
back ground until near the end, which gives an interesting twist on the story.
I like the book
because the language was minimal and the sex stopped at the bedroom door which
is a nice change of pace from most books of this type!
I give this
book a 3-4 leaning more to the four side of it.
Thanks Eileen
for this review.
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing
Platform (October 24, 2012)
Copyright: 2012
Pages: 252
ISBN: 978-1480177154
Quick Review: 3 1/2 stars out of 5
Where I obtained
the book: Sent by the author for review.
Synopsis: This is a
mystery/thriller set on the coast of Maine. The principal character/narrator is
a man entering his middle years. An army officer in Vietnam, upon returning
form his first tour he learned his wife had died unexpectedly. His response was to go back to Vietnam where
he tried to get dead for the next two years.
Finally, he was sent home by a commanding officer who felt he had more
worth alive than dying a mourning death.
He "retired" to a small house on the Maine coast
where he became a writer and photographer.
His principal enjoyment comes from early morning drives around Mt.
Desert Island, home to Acadia National Park and Bar Harbor. It is on one of these early morning drives
that he stops to help a fellow motorist stranded with car trouble. It is then he meets the semi-mysterious
Adriana Barrows.
An early summer/early autumn relationship begins to develop
as he learns more and more about Adriana's past. And soon he learns again one of the lessons
he learned in combat in Vietnam: when
things seem too good to be true, they often are. To be sure, Adriana is a strong, independent
woman. A linguist with a background in
the war on drugs and a fascination for him that he never expected to find.
Author Biography: Roger M. Woodbury is a man who says his life has been
"full and variable." "Full because of the wide range of
experiences I have had," he says, "And variable because I have never
wanted to stay nailed to one desk for a very long time. I have loved a woman
(well, several actually); I have had my war (one was enough), and I have needed
to reinvent my professional self many times. But always there was the writing,
whether by pen, keyboard, carpenter's pencil, or something else. The writing
has been the key to my ventures, experiments, and experiences. Now, I find
myself of a 'certain age'. The Air Force had taken away my keys to their newest
jet fighter; my calls to NASA's astronaut recruiter went unanswered and I am a
bit too broad to fit in a Formula One race car. But I find I am not yet done
and I will continue writing about my adventures, some fiction and some not, for
the rest of my time. I hope the readers will enjoy the adventures with
me."
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