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Two boys discover a forty year-old skeleton, and an old man trudges through a San Franciso Park to the Fior d'Italia Restaurant. Thus begins a story filled with love, intrigue and murder.
Helm Publishing
July 2007
On Sale: July 1, 2007
Featuring: Julia Rice; Thomas Andersen; Mark Hansen
300 pages
ISBN: 0979232880
EAN: 9780979232886
Paperback
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Suspense | Mystery
The Separatist is two parallel stories: one about Julia
Rice, a newspaper reporter, and the other about Mr.
Andersen, an eighty-year-old man who roars into her life
like an aging lion. Forty years ago, Mr. Andersen was a
separatist, a man hired by clients to sever relationships
between spouses, business partners, or lovers without
unwanted publicity or legal confrontations. But he had to
flee the country to escape the clutches of a Chinese
warlord, Liu Kwong. Now, he has returned, and he asks
Julia to tell his story so he can bring Kwong to justice
and closure to his life. Julia hesitates, but finally
agrees when the old man offers to help her find her
father, for whom she has searched since he abandoned her
as a small child. Julia learns that Mr. Andersen was hired forty years ago
by Kwong to sever relationships with a woman, Kathy
Griffith, who he claimed was his mistress. Andersen
discovers Kwong’s real motivation for wanting “to get rid
of” Kathy is to prevent her from exposing his illegal
smuggling operations, and if he is not successful, Kwong
will have her murdered. In the process of investigating
Kathy, Andersen falls in love with her, creating an
agonizing dilemma. If he does not ruin Kathy’s
reputation, Kwong will have her murdered, but if he
fulfills the contract, he will destroy her trust in him
and lose her anyway. Like Andersen, Julia is trapped by her own past. She
knows her father roams the country promoting fraudulent
land schemes, but despite his unsavory character, she
hopes to fine him someday. But as Julia navigates the
twists and turns of the separatist’s dangerous world, she
makes startling discoveries that shake her confidence and
nearly cost her her life. She has no choice, however, but
to continue down the path laid out for her by Mr.
Andersen, for she knows it is the only way to bring peace
to her life.
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