Earthquake Games
by Bonnie Ramthun

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Eileen is carrying some heavy personal baggage. She's recently killed a criminal who, although he richly deserved it, is still causing her nightmares. She's deep into denial about a series of traumatic events in her childhood that make her unable to trust the man in her life or accept the fact that Alan Baxter, a retired professor who was on his way to meet the slain woman in the dunes, may be her long-lost father and may also be a murderer. When a friend in the CIA tracks down documents involving the construction of an earthquake machine hidden in dusty Pentagon files, and Eileen draws a line between the secret project and information her boyfriend decrypts from the computer of the murdered military man, she uncovers the outlines of a fiendish plot to cause the deaths of thousands of innocent people and pave the way for a political takeover of the U.S. In a thrilling, fast-paced conclusion, she manages to find and disable the device, and in so doing to save the nation as well as solve the mystery of her own origins. Author Bonnie Ramthun evokes the mysterious landscape of the desert Southwest with good descriptive touches and creates characters with interesting backgrounds and more emotional and intellectual texture than is usual in novels on the theme of criminal masterminds bent on world domination. There's even enough science to make the plot seem credible. Earthquake Games is a lively and suspenseful read with a heroine you'll want to meet again. --Jane Adams

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