ISBN: 0-553-29613-2
Godina izdanja: 1992
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Beverly Byrne - The Firebirds
Bantam, 1992
435 str.
meki povez
stanje: dobro

Mendoza Saga #3

Determined to fight the powerful Mendoza family, Lili Cramer investigates the murder of a beautiful society matron years earlier in the House of Mendoza only to find an undying love.

Completes Byrne`s exciting trilogy that began with A Lasting Fire (7/91) and The Flames of Vengeance (12/91). From New York`s hectic streets to the gracious manors of the English aristocracy to the sun-drenched palaces of southern Spain, echoes of the past ignite a blaze in the present--and only the firebirds will rise triumphant from the ashes.

Though coincidence and plot convolutions are pushed to the limit, the conclusion of Byrne`s ( The Flames of Vengeance ) Mendoza trilogy offers an enjoyable passel of characters, some engaging, others satisfactorily mysterious. Studying in England in 1970, Lili Cramer falls for Andy Mendoza, member of a powerful banking family. An aspiring author, Andy is pursuing an unsolved mystery from the 1930s in which he suspects his family was involved: Amanda Kane, native of the same Massachusetts town as Lili, vanished the day her husband, an English baron, was murdered. After a whirlwind affair Andy drops Lili without explanation. Years later in New York Lili and her friend Peter Fowler, with the help of Spanish supporter Loyola Perez, plan to take over a publisher. When the publisher finds a white knight, Lili and Peter believe that Loy`s bankers, the Mendoza Group, are providing backing. Thus when Andy surfaces in New York, Lili proceeds cautiously. While Byrne`s tale is entertaining, it is too slight to bear the weight of the pretentious mystery of the Mendoza family`s lost Jewish heritage.



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