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Title: When She Was Bad
Author: Ron Faust
Narrator: Stephen Bel Davies
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-17-14
Publisher: Audible Studios
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense
Publisher's Summary:
Chantal is the ultimate femme fatale, the deadly siren of every mans dreams and nightmares. A ruthless - and beautiful - black widow, she seduces and destroys those around her. To her lover, Dan Stark, she promises paradise and more. But as her web descends, he must decide his role - one of her victims...or her killer. Christine Terry is rescued after spending 19 days in the Caribbean on a life raft, then mysteriously escapes from the hospital before she can be questioned about the wreck and disappearance of the yacht she was on - and its owners. Cynical but likable reporter Dan Stark is suspicious but obsessed, and soon finds that she is absolutely nothing that she pretends to be. He agrees to help her retrieve a fortune in stolen emeralds from the sunken boat, but when she abandons him on an empty atoll, he vows revenge. Soon, like Chantal (her real name), he learns to change himself and his appearance to fit the situations he meets in pursuit of her. After more than one dangerous engagement with her over the next several years, he discovers a much more personal reason for tracking her down to a final confrontation....
Members Reviews:
Great Read!
This is a great read!! Full of twists and turns it completely takes you by surprise! I've read it twice and I never do that! Good book!!
WOW! What A Ride!
Recently a Facebook site for the work of author John D. MacDonald, someone commented that fans of JDM would enjoy the work of author Ron Faust. Embarrassed, this reader had never heard of this author, even though he wrote at least 18 novels, but apparently not in recent years as he is now 81 years of age.
When She Was Bad, was published in 1994, with unread hardbound copies still available as are a 2014 paper reprint. Christine Terry was found by a shrimping boat, out of Key West, floating on a life raft, where she had been for the past 19 days after their vessel sunk and her husband lost. Dan Stark, a reporter for the Key Times, was at the dock awaiting the arrival of the shrimping boat. When they brought her to the ambulance she looked at him and he at her. He would have been better off not having shared that brief moment unless you are into femme fatale.
While weak and malnourished, she slips out of the hospital, and Dan tries to hunt her down. This attractive and sensual woman is perhaps not who she claims to be, and thus begins an exciting journey where their lives are interchanged and not always pleasantly. For this reader, this was a very well written novel. It was smart, and the character Dan Stark reflects some of the best of characters, of the late E. Howard Hunt in his novels.
You know it is a good book, when this readerâs next role, is to hunt down the 17 Ron Faust that havenât been read. Great fun.
Loved it
An engaging book to read. I could hardly put it down and definitely not one to read a bedtime. Lots of twist and turns and it would make a great movie.
Faust is such a literary stud
I absolutely loved this book. I'm a novelist myself but it's books like this, that are written with such verve and style, that sometimes make me want to quit writing. I'm damn good, but I still don't think I could ever match Faust's outstanding prose, dead-on dialogue, and hold-your-breath plotting.
As another reviewer stated, why in the heck hasn't this been made into a major motion picture? It is infinitely better than 96 percent of the stuff being released.
