As a U.S. Intelligence officer, Jordan Weiss has seen her
share of death and violence. However, the one death that
has always haunted her is the drowning of her college
boyfriend, Jared Short, at Cambridge years before.
Devastated by the sudden loss, Jordan left England and has
never returned -- until now. After receiving a letter from
her friend Sarah, who is seriously ill and lives in London,
Jordan puts her own pain aside. She takes an assignment to
assist the British government and heads across the
Atlantic, determined to face the ghosts of her past.
One of those ghosts turns out to be the very-much-alive
Chris Bannister, who was a good friend of Jared's and
Jordan's. Although Jared's death was generally thought to
be an accident, Chris now believes Jared was killed because
of something he had discovered in his doctorate research.
He wants Jordan, with her experience and connections, to
help him find out what really happened. Jordan reluctantly
agrees, although she's also been assigned a complicated
case as part of her new job responsibilities: tracing
possible corporate ties to the Albanian mob. As she delves
into both investigations, Jordan discovers some bizarre
connections and coincidences. Strange as it seems, she
starts to wonder if Jared's death is somehow linked to her
current case. If so, it would indeed appear that he was
murdered for something he knew.
Getting to the truth takes on even greater urgency after a
key person in the investigation vanishes and then Sarah is
attacked. With her own life in danger, no longer sure who
she can trust, Jordan digs through the long-buried pain in
her past in a desperate search for answers -- hoping to
bring criminals to justice and to finally put her personal
demons to rest...if she can stay alive long enough, that
is.
This book pulled me in from the start and never let go. The
details about Cambridge and London bring those locations to
vibrant life and the tension ratchets a little higher with
each chapter. I enjoyed following Jordan's and Jared's
relationship via college flashbacks as much as I enjoyed
navigating through the twists and turns of the modern-day
investigation. Like Jordan, I found myself constantly
wondering just who the "good guys" were. With intrigue,
romance and action, this book is a thrill ride from start
to finish.
A breathtakingly poignant novel of suspense
from one of fiction's newest leading
voices.
From bestselling author and Quill
award nominee Pam Jenoff comes a rich, ambitious, and
startling novel about a woman who must face a past she'd
rather forget in order to uncover a dangerous legacy that
threatens her future.
Ten years ago, American Jordan
Weiss's idyllic experience as a graduate student and
coxswain at Cambridge was shattered when her boyfriend and
fellow crewmember, Jared Short, drowned in the River Cam the
night before the biggest race of the year. Since that time,
Jordan, a State Department intelligence officer, has
traveled the world on dangerous assignments but has managed
to avoid returning to face her painful memories in England.
When her terminally ill friend Sarah asks her to come to
London, though, Jordan finds herself requesting a transfer
to the one place she swore she'd never go again.
In
London, Jordan attempts to settle into her new life, pushing
aside her haunting memories and taking on an urgent mission
beside rakish agent Sebastian Hodges. Shortly after her
arrival, just when she thinks there's hope for a fresh start
in England, she is approached by a former college classmate
who makes a startling assertion. He tells her that Jared's
death was not an accident, but that he was
murdered.
Jordan quickly learns that Jared's death was
indeed not an accident, and that his research on World War
II had uncovered a shameful secret. But powerful forces with
everything to lose will stop at nothing to keep the past
buried. Soon, Jordan finds herself in grave peril as she
struggles to find the answers that lie treacherously close
to home, the truth that threatens to change her life
forever, and the love that makes it all worth fighting
for.
It is a journey that sweeps readers across England
and back in time to reveal the incalculable dangers that lie
in the wake of war. Fast-paced and impossible to put down,
Almost Home establishes Pam Jenoff as one of the best
new writers in the genre.
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