A World I Never Made by James LePore is the 1st novel in his Invictus Cycle quintet of literary noir suspense thrillers centred around themes of organized crime and families trying to be ordinary despite that, this one a dual story featuring a man on the trail of his estranged daughter who has faked a suicide as a possible cry for help, and that of the daughter herself, a journalist who discovers something sinister about a businessman she has a torrid affair with, free for a limited time courtesy of publisher Fiction Studio, an imprint founded by ex-Big 6 editor
Lou Aronica.
This has previously been offered free way back in
2011 when affiliate links were still allowed, and we also happen to have gotten
#2,
#3, &
#5 as freebies in the past, as well.
Currently free @
B&N (new edition since the last time),
Kobo &
iTunes (both available to Canadians). Price-drop-check linkage for
Amazon &
Google Play.
Description
Pat Nolan, an American man, is summoned to Paris to claim the body of his estranged daughter Megan, who has committed suicide. The body, however, is not Megan’s and it becomes instantly clear to Pat that Megan staged this, that she is in serious trouble, and that she is calling to him for help. This sends Pat on an odyssey with Catherine Laurence, a beautiful but tormented Paris detective, that stretches across France and into the Czech Republic and that makes him the target of both the French police and a band of international terrorists.
Juxtaposed against this story is Megan’s story. A freelance journalist, Megan is in Morocco to do research when she meets Abdel Lahani, a Saudi businessman. They begin a torrid affair, a game Megan has played often and well in her adult life. But what she discovers about Lahani puts her in the center of a different kind of game, one with rules she can barely comprehend, and one that puts the lives of many—maybe even millions—at risk.
A WORLD I NEVER MADE is an atmospheric novel of suspense with brilliantly drawn characters and back-stories as compelling as the plot itself—a novel that resonates deeply and leaves its traces long after you turn the final page.