Betrayed by Jeanette Windle, Reviewed
March 27, 2008
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
As the child of missionary parents, award-winning author and journalist Jeanette Windle grew up in the rural villages, jungles, and mountains of Colombia, now guerrilla hot zones. Her detailed research and writing is so realistic that it has prompted government agencies to question her to determine if she has received classified information. Currently based in Lancaster, PA, Jeanette has lived in six countries and traveled in more than twenty. She has more than a dozen books in print, including political/suspense best-seller CrossFire and the Parker Twins series.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Fires smolder endlessly below the dangerous surface of Guatemala City’s municipal dump.
Deadlier fires seethe beneath the tenuous calm of a nation recovering from brutal civil war. Anthropologist Vicki Andrews is researching Guatemala’s “garbage people” when she stumbles across a human body. Curiosity turns to horror as she uncovers no stranger, but an American environmentalist—Vicki’s only sister, Holly.
With authorities dismissing the death as another street crime, Vicki begins tracing Holly’s last steps, a pilgrimage leading from slum squalor to the breathtaking and endangered cloud forests of the Sierra de las Minas Biosphere. But every unraveled thread raises more questions. What betrayal connects Holly’s murder, the recent massacre of a Mayan village, and the long-ago deaths of Vicki’s own parents?
Nor is Vicki the only one demanding answers. Before her search reaches its startling end, the conflagration has spilled across international borders to threaten an American administration and the current war on terror. With no one turning out to be who they’d seemed, who can Vicki trust and who should she fear?
A politically relevant tale of international intrigue and God’s redemptive beauty and hope.
Sally Says:
I just finished this book today. It’s one of those nice thick books, and I’ll say that if you buy it, you’ll get your money’s worth.
Jeanette does a good job of helping the reader see a country that he’s probably never been to. And she brought out the culture, the problems, and the history in a way that related to the story rather than as a history lesson. The middle of the story did lag a bit for me, but the beginning of the story was good enough to keep me going, and the book gave a satisfactory ending that hints at a sequel. (Is there one, Jeanette?)
Betrayed is a complex story and quite a ride. Like I said, I loved the ending, the adventure in the story, and the spiritual thread — very believable, very real. Will I read another book by Jeanette Windle?
You bet.
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One Response to “Betrayed by Jeanette Windle, Reviewed”
Thanks for introducing this author to us. I hadn’t heard of her until now, but her books sound good. Intriguing setting.