Eye of the Mountain God
A Thriller
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Megan Montoya has come to New Mexico with her daughter, Lizzie, to begin a career in photography. One morning she opens her newspaper and five jagged stones clatter to the floor. A jeweler identifies them as emeralds, and an attractive archeologist believes they might be the legendary emerald arrowheads used by the Pima Indians four centuries ago to lure away the Spaniards.
Megan's paperboy goes missing, and her house is searched. Tension escalates as Megan finds her only client is hiding something, and that the man she is falling in love with may have ulterior motives. When Lizzie is kidnapped, Megan becomes embroiled in a separatist plot, bargaining with a cabal's crazed leader to spare her daughter's life.
Eye of the Mountain God is Penny Rudolph's fourth crime novel. Combining a cast of maverick characters and nonstop action, she offers a unique and captivating story about one mother's love and the causes that some people are willing to die, and kill, for.
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Fans of independent women striving against the odds will best appreciate Rudolph's less than suspenseful thriller. Megan Montoya, a single mom with an eight-year-old autistic, hearing-impaired daughter, has moved from Pennsylvania to Santa Ynez, N.Mex., where she hopes to jump-start her career as a professional photographer. Soon after her paperboy vanishes, Megan finds within a days-old newspaper five emerald arrowheads, which, she later learns, might be worth a million dollars each. She decides to hang on to the arrowheads as a means out of her financial difficulties. Megan gets another break when a representative of an organization called Save the People asks her to photograph the poor women and children of nearby mountain villages to help their cause. Rudolph (Thicker than Blood) throws in a terrorist, who's planning an attack in revenge for the U.S. government's violating the treaty that ended the Mexican-American war, but the various parts never gel into a satisfying whole.
