The Skins of Dead Men
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- $5.99
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
When a vacationing young schoolteacher stumbles upon the killing of a woman--and attempted kidnapping of the murdered woman's son--she rescues the 7-year old, only to find herself pursued by thugs hired by international agencies. She is aided by Ross, her close friend who has received multiple skin grafts following burns sustained 2 years earlier. But Ross is plagued with memories not his own, and it seems that dead men can tell tales... Fast paced suspense, from the author of the New York Times bestseller THE RANSOM OF BLACK STEALTH ONE.
“…first class characterizations”
- Publishers Weekly
"Ing remains a superb describer of physical and mental combat."
- San Francisco Examiner
“Nobody makes high-tech adventures come to life better than Dean Ing.”
- David Brin
“I am prepared to call Dean (Ing) a Robert Heinlein of a science fiction writer, and that is the highest praise I own.”
- Spider Robinson
"Ing continues to mine a profitable side vein in a field crowded with the claims of more conventional thriller writers"
- Publishers Weekly
“Ing is a master of ground-based spy novels as well as of high-in-the-sky thrillers… An always entertaining author."
- Publishers Weekly
“Above all, he is a master storyteller”
- SF & Fantasy Review
“Dean Ing is a talented and consistent author of thrillers that seem to take a slightly different tack from the rest of the crowd.”
- St. Petersburg Times
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Despite a cookie-cutter kidnapping plot, first-class characterizations save this story about a schoolteacher who comes to the aid of a young boy with a problematic royal heritage. Teresa "T.C." Contreras's Puerto Vallarta vacation is interrupted when she stumbles onto the kidnapping of seven-year-old Al Townsend and then puts her life in peril to save the boy. The man behind the kidnapping plan is Al's Kurdish father, who wants to return his son to their homeland so he can fulfill his birthright as an Islamic leader, a rite of passage that was interrupted when his American mother took off with Al in violation of their custody agreement. T.C. manages to sneak the kid out of Mexico after his mother dies in the kidnapping attempt, but when the team of terrorists continues to stalk the pair into the U.S., she turns to Ross Downing, an old friend severely burned years earlier in an unsuccessful effort to rescue T.C.'s child in a tragic accident. The climax lacks spark, but what saves the narrative is the intriguing interplay between T.C.'s optimistic resourcefulness and Ross's darker history, a balance that adds depth to the narrative when they finally become lovers. Despite the relative lack of imagination, Ing (Wild Country) fans who enjoy quality characters and solid storytelling will find merit in this title. Author tour.
