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Windmills of the Gods
Windmills of the Gods
Author: Sidney Sheldon
This classic best-selling thriller races from the White House to the romance of Paris and the shady menace of Cold War Bucharest as a young woman ambassador faces unseen and powerful enemies plotting her and her children's destruction.
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ISBN-13: 9780688065706
ISBN-10: 0688065708
Publication Date: 11/1991
Pages: 384
Rating:
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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3.8 stars, based on 14 ratings
Publisher: William Morrow Company
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio Cassette
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Very suspenseful and interesting - I was completely caught off guard by the ending, and had to go back through the book looking for clues that pointed to his ending. You will not be able to put this one down.
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She's on the glinting edge of East-West confrontation, a beautiful and accomplished scholar who has suddenly become our newest ambassador to an Iron Curtain country, a woman who is about to dramatically change the course of world events - if she lives. For Mary Ashley has been marked for death by the world's most proficient and mysterious assassin, and plunged into a nightmare of espionage, kidnapping, and terror. Here, only two people - both powerfully attractive and ultimately enigmatic men - can offer her help. And one of them wants to kill her.
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She's on the glintig edge of East-West confrontation, a beautiful and accomplished scholar who has suddenly become our newest ambassador to an Iron Curtain country, a woman who is bout to dramaticfally change the course of world events--if she lives. For Mary Ashley has been marked for death by the world's most proficient and mysterious assassin, and plunged into a nightmare of espionage, kidnapping, and terror. Here, only two people--both powerfully attractie and ultimately enimatic men--can offer her help. And one of them wants to kill her.
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This book is an entertaining, engaging mix of international intrigue, murder, sex and action. Mary Ashley, a beautiful, accomplished scholar, has just been appointed ambassador to an Iron Curtain country, and is about to be plunged into a nightmare of espionage, kidnapping and terror. Sidney Sheldon is always a good, fast read!
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An engaging mix of action, murder, and sex!
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exciting , will have you tearing threw the pages
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Sheldon did an excellent job of weaving the plot with mystery and suspense. He kept you so you never knew what was going to happen next. There were plenty of twists and turns in this mysterious murder plot.
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During the Cold War, the President of the United States asks college professor and Mrs. Average America Mary Ashley to fill the very important post of Ambassador to Romania. She is flattered, but declines because her husband's job requires him to stay here. Faster than you can say "Conspiracy theory," the husband has a fatal accident and Mary is off to Bucharest, where the protocol is stifling, her office is bugged, and her assistant, smart aleck Mike Slade, just may be trying to kill her.

This story is a bit of a departure for Sidney Sheldon, who usually writes romantic thrillers about spunky, single young women. Mary Ashley is brave, but definitely from the Donna Reed School for Wives and she has two (perfect) kids, to boot. The character I liked best was the enigmatic master assassin, Angel, who has killed some of the world's most influential people, and now find Mary Ashley on his to-do list. The ever-smirking Mike Slade is a fun and likeable character. You'll learn a lot about diplomatic protocol in this tidy little political thriller.


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