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Limbo Man: a female FBI agent & a Russian mystery man chase a wayward nuclear bomb
A lost Russian nuke plunges FBI Special Agent Veen Frost into a world-wide chase, from the East Coast to the Mid-West, from Florida to Siberia, on to Iran, and back again. Her only companion, an amnesiac Russian who may have the key to the location of the lost bomb locked in his head. Author's During the chaos of the break-up of the Soviet Union (c. 1990), ten nuclear bombs went missing. LIMBO MAN is a tale of "what might have been."
256 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 14, 2012
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Blair Bancroft
63 books54 followersBlair Bancroft is an award-winning author, multi-published in several different romance genres. Her eclectic background includes a career in music, with forays into editing and costume design. She wrote her first novel only after it occurred to her that her mother being a successful author didn't mean she couldn't be one too. Blair has traveled most of the United States and as far away as Siberia and Machu Picchu, with emphasis on touring Great Britain and Ireland, and enjoys using bits of her travel experiences in her books.
Blair’s first book, TARLETON’S WIFE, won RWA’s Golden Heart award. Her traditional Regency, THE INDIFFERENT EARL (now published as THE COURTESAN’S LETTERS) won the Best Regency award from Romantic Times and was a nominee for RWA’s RITA award. She has also won a Best Romance award from the Florida Writers Association and Best YA award from EPIC. To keep things lively, over the last few years Blair has added the genre Regency Gothic and the Space Saga series, Blue Moon Rising, to her list of books.
Blair’s first book, TARLETON’S WIFE, won RWA’s Golden Heart award. Her traditional Regency, THE INDIFFERENT EARL (now published as THE COURTESAN’S LETTERS) won the Best Regency award from Romantic Times and was a nominee for RWA’s RITA award. She has also won a Best Romance award from the Florida Writers Association and Best YA award from EPIC. To keep things lively, over the last few years Blair has added the genre Regency Gothic and the Space Saga series, Blue Moon Rising, to her list of books.
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October 18, 2017
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It seems odd that someone who has led a perfectly safe and relatively uneventful life should have put so much of herself into a Thriller. And yet I've been to every one of the many settings in this book, with the exception of Tehran, Iran. And a surprising amount of the story is based on fact, most particularly the true story of ten nuclear bombs lost in the chaos after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. As the book begins, we don't know if LIMBO MAN is Russian or American, friend or foe, savior or madman. The problem is, he doesn't either, as he's suffered a loss of memory. When FBI agent Vee Frost is asked to accompany him to a safe house and charm his memories out of him, it seems an intriguing assignment, a major plus on her resumé, with minimal risk.
Except, of course, everything goes wrong. Vee and her Man in Limbo find themselves under attack almost immediately and end up chasing over half the world in pursuit of an ancient nuclear weapon, soon to be resurrected to devastate a major U. S. city. But many essential details are still locked inside our Limbo Man's head. As for snatching at romance along the way, how do you reconcile the Montagues and the Capulets? With the Russian mafia rearing its ugly head against both American and Russian interests? So . . . a somewhat whimsical ending for a Thriller. I hope you'll find LIMBO MAN as much fun to read as I did to write.
It seems odd that someone who has led a perfectly safe and relatively uneventful life should have put so much of herself into a Thriller. And yet I've been to every one of the many settings in this book, with the exception of Tehran, Iran. And a surprising amount of the story is based on fact, most particularly the true story of ten nuclear bombs lost in the chaos after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. As the book begins, we don't know if LIMBO MAN is Russian or American, friend or foe, savior or madman. The problem is, he doesn't either, as he's suffered a loss of memory. When FBI agent Vee Frost is asked to accompany him to a safe house and charm his memories out of him, it seems an intriguing assignment, a major plus on her resumé, with minimal risk.
Except, of course, everything goes wrong. Vee and her Man in Limbo find themselves under attack almost immediately and end up chasing over half the world in pursuit of an ancient nuclear weapon, soon to be resurrected to devastate a major U. S. city. But many essential details are still locked inside our Limbo Man's head. As for snatching at romance along the way, how do you reconcile the Montagues and the Capulets? With the Russian mafia rearing its ugly head against both American and Russian interests? So . . . a somewhat whimsical ending for a Thriller. I hope you'll find LIMBO MAN as much fun to read as I did to write.
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