I began with one of my
favorite fiction characters, Gabriel Allon from Daniel Silva’s great spy
thrillers. A Mossad assassin, Allon is now Chief of Israel’s Mossad. A complex
man with a multitude of talents—a brilliant artist, a linguist fluent in
German, Hebrew, Arabic, English—he is also a moralistic man. You ask, how can
an assassin be a man of moral principles? He is. He draws the line at killing
only those despicable people who have killed innocent civilians in their quest
for religious dominance, money, power or national zealotry.
So from Gabriel Allon, whose
German Jewish family was killed by the Nazis and whose wife and son were killed
by radical Muslims, I jump into the heart and soul of Jacob Bernstein. He’s a
modern American male with a German Jewish/Irish Catholic family background. His
identification with his German-Ashkenazi Jewish grandparent prompts him to
pursue a law enforcement career aimed at seeking justice. Naturally, with his
Navy Seal history, he relishes the field work of counter-terrorism. His unique
training has prepared him for going undercover on a variety of cases, from
tracking down an elderly American grandmother suspected of WW II war crimes to
exposing a terrorist cell’s plot to commit mass murder. Now, in WHERE DANGER
LIES (Book Three in the FBI romantic-suspense series), Jake helps inexperienced
NCIs investigate the murder of a Navy weapons specialist assigned to Naval Base
Coronado, San Diego. Meanwhile, his girlfriend, Meg Larsen, finds herself in
the midst of helping one of her students, the daughter of a Muslim woman who
has become the victim of an attempted “honor killing.” There are people who want
to stop both of them before the truth is discovered. For even in beautiful San
Diego, you never know WHERE DANGER LIES.
In the next installment (Book
Four) of FBI Special Agent’s Jake Bernstein’s adventures, a Silicon Valley tech
genius plots to sell his Bio-weapon of Mass Destruction plans to the highest
bidder. But who among an international crowd of the world’s most dangerous
villains will be the one to succeed? Can Jake uncover him in time to stop the
transaction? And bring the American traitor to justice? This time, Meg Larsen,
having joined the Special Services Group of the FBI, partners up with Jake in
their undercover operation. Stay tuned for SPIES IN BLACK TIES!
by Donna Del Oro
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