Free (K) by Norma Beishir [Thriller]

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http://www.amazon.com/The-Unicorns-Daughter-ebook/dp/B00860WC7U

--This book was previously published in 1990 by Berkley, the previous title was A Time For Legends.

Book Description:

Jaime Lynde would stop at nothing to find the truth....

As a child, she was told her father was dead, but one by one, the lies began to unravel. James Lynde was an operative for the OSS during World War II, and later for the CIA. In 1986, he was still alive and working undercover in Libya. As Jaime followed his trail, a traitor followed hers...and the US prepared to take military action....

"Beishir pens a winner with this gripping thriller...she confidently builds to a revelatory and spellbinding finale."
-- Publishers Weekly

From Publishers Weekly:
Beishir ( Angels at Midnight ) pens a winner with this gripping thriller. Jaime Lynde's father has been missing for 19 years, and when she learns of his covert career in the OSS and the CIA, she becomes convinced that he is alive and his whereabouts concealed for sinister reasons. The plot elements are familiar: obfuscating CIA operatives; an agent who vanishes into deep cover; an elaborate official cover story; and people who begin to die under mysterious circumstances. But Beishir's galloping pace revitalizes these standbys, and she confidently builds to a revelatory and spellbinding finale. And in the midst of all the intrigue, a romance develops for Jaime--but the sex is more slow burn than Beishir's trademark high sizzle, as if Beishir herself was too involved in the moves and countermoves of espionage to concentrate on bedroom dramas. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From the Author:
When I was working on this book back in 1986, I'd originally planned to have the climax take place in Amsterdam. As fate would have it, however, President Reagan ordered the air strike on Libya and the the idea of sending my characters into the Middle East seemed a much better option.

Berkley originally published the book as A Time for Legends in 1990, with a lovely cover that didn't really say anything about the story. I got tired of having to say, with great embarrassment, "I have no idea" when people asked what that title meant (thanks, marketing chimps--and I mean that in the most sarcastic way possible), so when I regained the rights to it and decided to publish it as an ebook, some changes were in order....

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Angels at Midnight is free today on Amazon US.
[Previously free on July 13.]


From Publishers Weekly
Set primarily in the glamorous art milieus of San Francisco and Manhattan, Beishir's (Dance of the Gods) novel makes exciting stopovers in Monte Carlo, Venezuela, Big Sur and other exotic locales. The pages are rife with sizzling sex, suspense and conflict, expertly paced, as both hero and heroine are motivated to bend the law by a powerful need for revenge. Abby Giannini, who has changed her name to Ashley Gordon, loses custody of her son in a vicious court battle with her deceased husband's parents. Collin Deverell, heir to an oil fortune, trades his share in his late father's company for the rights to his mother's art and jewelry estate. But when his ambitious twin Justin defrauds him of his inheritance, Collin too has a score to settle. Collin and Ashley's joint quest for justice and lusty romance make for compulsive reading.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information Inc.

From the Author
Of all of my novels, so far this one was the most fun to write. It was a challenge to come up with ways for Collin and Ashley to carry out their plans to get back what was rightfully theirs, and I found Collin had to be part Indiana Jones, part MacGuyver, and even a little bit James Bond. I've been asked if these characters will ever come back in another novel. The answer, at this point, is "possibly." If I could come up with the right storyline, I would love to work with them again!

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Now FREE by same author at Amazon US:

Chasing The Wind - by Norma Beishir and Collin Beishir

Book Description:
Who is Connor Mackenzie? Is he the result of an experiment that should never have been undertaken...or is he the prophet foretold by an ancient text discovered in the Sinai wilderness? Around the globe, children are abducted. All of them are between the ages of five and six, all conceived by in vitro fertilization, and all extraordinarily gifted. In the Sinai, archaeologist Lynne Raven searches for proof of the Exodus and finds a papyrus proclaiming the emergence of a prophet sent to defeat the darkness that threatens to consume the world. In London, a powerful cartel manipulates politicians and industrialists and controls a think tank with an unthinkable agenda. One thing connects them all: the truth about Connor Mackenzie...

Revised, updated edition of the 2008 novel, now in multiple first-person points-of-view.

Norma Beishir is the bestselling author of fourteen previous novels. Collin Beishir is the author of the upcoming novel E.L.E. (Extinction Level Event).

From the Author:
I originally conceived the idea for this book back in 1998. It was supposed to be about a scientist's attempt to clone Jesus Christ. That didn't work for a number of reasons, the main one being too many people were trying to write about that same scenario. That, and the fact that the story just didn't work. I've now published sixteen novels, but I also have a pile of manuscripts that were dead on arrival. Then, a new character appeared to me in a dream--I know, it sounds corny, but that's what happened! Ten years and even more rewrites later, I had finished the book I wanted to write...and the self-publishing era had begun. Perfect timing for a creative control freak like myself.

About the Author:
Norma Beishir is the author of sixteen novels (so far) under her own name and her "Toni Collins" pseudonym. Fourteen of those novels were conventionally-published by Berkley Books (Penguin Putman) and Sihouette (Harlequin). Many of her novels have been national bestsellers. In 2012, she will re-release her backlist as ebooks and introduce two new pseudonyms: Scarlett Martin and Robin Collins.

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There's another one free today:

Final Hours

Could you live a lifetime in twenty-four hours?

Jamie Randall thought he had it all...until a close brush with death brought him face-to-face with the one thing that was missing from his life. Now, facing his own mortality once again, he will have to make a choice: one chance to live, or one chance to set things right in his troubled life....