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Title: Heir Today
Author: J. J. Lamb, Bette Golden Lamb
Narrator: Colleen Patrick
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-04-12
Publisher: Books in Motion
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Romance, Suspense
Publisher's Summary:
How far would you go to retrieve a quarter-million dollars? Investigative journalists Paige and Max Alper drop everything, leave their jobs behind, and hopscotch from San Francisco to San Diego to New York to Hong Kong to take up the paper chase. Along the way they are pursued, trapped, stripped naked, kidnapped, and set afire, but they end up with a lot more than the $250,000.
It all starts when Paige rejects an heir-tracers proposal to split 50-50 the inheritance from her adventurous and mysterious sea captain uncle. While her twin sister insists they accept the heir-tracers offer without question, the Alpers launch their own trace, unaware that Uncle Jock Boylan was murdered - not for his money, but because he had collected evidence that would expose a conspiracy of Chinese government officials and a Hong Kong-based triad of pirates and white slavers.
The Alpers search for the inheritance uncovers a set of journals written by the uncle. They learn of the tragic loss of his daughter at the hands of the Shan Triad and of his bold efforts to avenge her death. The result: A simple treasure hunt turns into an international adventure of intrigue, courage, death, and revenge.
Members Reviews:
Kept my interest throughout. Could not put it down.
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Excellent International PI novel
Paige Alper, free-lance writer and her husband, Max, receive a letter from a tracer firm in New York. For a hefty fee, the letter says, the heir tracers will locate a dead relative's assets and hand over some money. The dead relative is, of course, a black sheep, the most fascinating member of her family and a world-wandering sailor whom she doesn't see much of. Nor does her sister who turns out to be a ten-carat bitch and even more interesting, even though she has only a minor role in the story.
Paige's sister Sheryl, is a grasping, quick-buck hausfrau who wants to immediately sign away her rights and get whatever small amount of cash is available. Paige, more astute, more suspicious and less in need of quick cash, declines to sign. She and her husband, crusading free-lance journalist Max, set out to find Uncle Jock's money. Family conflict and some fine spats between sisters is one result.
What Max and Paige don't realize is that an evil Chinese organization with world-wide interests and tentacles has also been stalking Uncle Jock. That's because Jock, incautious sailor that he was, had for years been collecting damaging evidence against the Hong Kong based crime syndicate. Jock was on a personal vendetta.
If this all sounds a little like that old comic strip "Terry and the Pirates," it's not surprising. Nevertheless, Paige and Max are fun characters to follow, and even if their dialogue is sometimes right out of the forties, it's clear they have a solid relationship and are very supportive of each other. Couple conflict is not really in their makeup.
That's a good thing because their search takes them from the Far East up and down the California Coast, and to New York, among other places. They are attacked in any number of ingenious ways and it's a wonder they make it through even a single day with the power of the huge, malevolent, Asian gang arrayed against them. They do survive to fight another day and it really is a lot of fun following this breathless pair on foot, on motorbike and by car, train and plane to a final solution.
