A political thriller about strong-minded women and men, The Dark Path to the River tells a love story that moves between Wall Street and Africa.
“Particularly successful in building suspense … sensitive and ambitious.” —New York Times Book Review
“A knockout of a novel—impressive in its scope but at the same time intimate and personal … an extraordinary book.” —Elisabeth Forsythe Hailey, A Woman of Independent Means
“Joanne Leedom-Ackerman knows suspense like Hitchcock … But what distinguishes the novel is its characters … [They] give this fine novel its power.” —Washington Post “A book that provokes thought and is most entertaining to read.” —Los Angeles Times
“The story’s power comes from its daring and imaginative scope, its sense of humanity and human connectedness across … the ‘small’ events of life and the larger events which come to be called history.” —Dallas Morning News

The Dark Path to the River

Leedom-Ackerman, Joanne

Literature & Fiction

iUniverse, Inc.

Characters in No Marble Angels struggle to close distances between each other, distances of race, sex, age. “A valuable philosophical or political acquisition as well as a literary one … should be sought out and read.”—Carolyn See, Los Angeles Times “The stories remind me of both I.B. Singer and Flannery O’Conner—compelling.”—John A. Williams, The Man Who Cried I Am “Readers casually picking up … No Marble Angels might think they have stumbled into Anne Tyler’s world … gems of clean, direct narrative.”—Baltimore Sun “With wonderfully wry humor, Leedom-Ackerman depicts the kind of good will that ends up causing trouble for others … a refined sense of craft is evident in all the stories.”—Library Journal

No Marble Angels: Short Fiction

Literary

Nine stories deal with individuals trying to overcome the distances that divide them

No Marble Angels

United States

Texas Center for Writers Pr

Saybrook Pub

Characters in No Marble Angels struggle to close distances between each other, distances of race, sex, age.

Open Road Distribution

A political thriller about strong-minded women and men, The Dark Path to the River tells a love story that moves between Wall Street and Africa.The story's power comes from its daring and imaginative scope, its sense ofhumanity and human connectedness across the small events of life and the largerevents which come to be called history.”Dallas Morning News

Burning Distance

A modern-day Romeo and Juliet—set against the backdrop of deadly weapons smuggling\nWhen ten-year-old Elizabeth West’s father dies in a tragic plane crash over the Persian Gulf, her family uproots their life in Washington, D.C., and moves to London. Her mother marries a knighted British businessman who has two children, and Elizabeth (Lizzy) and her two sisters move in with their new family.\nAt age sixteen, while attending the American School of London, Lizzy meets and falls in love with Adil Hasan—but when Adil’s father, a noted arms middleman, is deported, Lizzy and Adil are separated.\nLizzy’s family has also become involved with French-German industrialist Gerald Rene Wagner. Little does she know that Adil’s family has ties to the man, as well. When a member of her family is murdered in Berlin under mysterious circumstances, questions surface about Wagner’s dealings, and Lizzy reexamines what really may have happened to her father. All the while, she endeavors to reunite with her lost love, Adil, and reclaim the connection that was ripped away.\nSet in the years before and after the first Gulf War, Burning Distance is a journey through family secrets and competing loyalties, contemporary history, and the dark world of arms trafficking.\nJane Austen meets John le Carré in this cross-cultural love story and political thriller

Oceanview Publishing

A terrorist attack—a kidnapping—the ultimate vacation gone wrong\nSisters Samantha and Monte Waters are vacationing together in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, enjoying a festival and planning to meet with their brother, Cal—but the idyllic plans are short-lived. When terrorists’ attacks rock the city around them, Monte, a U.S. foreign service officer, and Samantha, an international television correspondent, are separated, and one of them is whisked away in the frenzy.\nThe family mobilizes, using all their contacts to try to find their missing sister, but to no avail. She has vanished. As time presses on, the outlook darkens. Can she be found, or is she a lost cause? And, even if she returns, will the damage to her and those around her be irreparable?\nMoving from Spain to Washington to Morocco to Gibraltar to the Sahara Desert, The Far Side of the Desert is a family drama and political thriller that explores links of terrorism, crime, and financial manipulation, revealing the grace that ultimately foils destruction.\nPerfect for fans of Lisa Jewell and Daniel Silva

The Far Side of the Desert

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

A modern-day Romeo and Juliet--set against the backdrop of deadly weapons smuggling When ten-year-old Elizabeth West's father dies in a tragic plane crash over the Persian Gulf, her family uproots their life in Washington, D.C., and moves to London. Her mother marries a knighted British businessman who has two children, and Elizabeth (Lizzy) and her two sisters move in with their new family. At age sixteen, while attending the American School of London, Lizzy meets and falls in love with Adil Hasan--but when Adil's father, a noted arms middleman, is deported, Lizzy and Adil are separated. Lizzy's family has also become involved with French-German industrialist Gerald Rene Wagner. Little does she know that Adil's family has ties to the man, as well. When a member of her family is murdered in Berlin under mysterious circumstances, questions surface about Wagner's dealings, and Lizzy reexamines what really may have happened to her father. All the while, she endeavors to reunite with her lost love, Adil, and reclaim the connection that was ripped away. Set in the years before and after the first Gulf War, Burning Distance is a journey through family secrets and competing loyalties, contemporary history, and the dark world of arms trafficking. Jane Austen meets John le Carré in this cross-cultural love story and political thriller

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The Dark Path to the River

No Marble Angels: Short Fiction

No Marble Angels

No Marble Angels: Short Fiction

The Dark Path to the River

No Marble Angels

The Dark Path to the River

Burning Distance

The Far Side of the Desert

Burning Distance