Fatal Beauty

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Juno Sultan was in the kitchen when the news came over the radio. An American businessman, Joe Bering, had been kidnapped in Italy by terrorists, and with him his assistant Michael Surton. No, not Surton, thought Juno: Sultan. Michael Sultan. Her son. She went to pack her bags. 'I'm coming to get you, Michael,' she said. 'Let them try to stop me.' And try they do. Juno Sultan, forty-four, beautiful, frightened, determined, insecure, unsuspecting, is about to enter a maelstrom of spies, police and extremists, including the Forze Scarlatte, a group of radical intellectuals and killers willing to dispose of their hostages should it prove expedient. A terrible race across sun-lit landscapes unfolds, leaving a brutal trail in its wake. But who, in this maze of gunmen and violence, can Juno really trust? Only in a shoot-out on a dark Lido beach in Venice does she discover the real truth. ISBN:9780413603609