Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner
12 Drummers Drumming
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Diana Deverell
Class/Genre: Mystery Government Agency Thriller Woman Main Character
Avon, Jul 1998, $23.00, 304 pp.
American Foreign Service Officer Casey Collins is stunned to learn that a cross-oceanic airliner exploded in air from what apparently was a Lockerbie-like bombing incident. Casey fears that her lover, Polish double agent Stefan Krajewski, who works for the Danes, died on the ill-fated flight.
Desperate to know the truth about her beloved, Casey quickly flies to Denmark to determine whether Stefan still lives. Her inquiries come to the attention of Danish and American officials. Eventually, she finds Stefan, but he has a beautiful blond attached to his arm. Before she can decide what this means, Casey finds herself running for her life as she has become the prime suspect in the Lockerbie Two bombing. With no one else to trust, Casey has an uphill battle to prove that she had nothing to do with the fatal airplane explosion.
12 DRUMMERS DRUMMING is an exciting thriller that is hurt by the common error of debuting authors, who try to develop too many different story lines in one book. Instead none of the sub-plots fully get developed and none of them take charge of the story line. Still, Diana Deverell clearly has talent as her first published novel remaisn an action-packed, non-stop international thriller that will please fans of the sub-genre.
Harriet Klausner
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