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Title: We Three Kings

Subtitle: Merritt Fury, Book 2

Author: Edward Cline

Narrator: Harlan Post

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-25-13

Publisher: Edward Cline

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

The chief villain of We Three Kings is representative of the most bizarre and anachronistic sadist at large in 1980, when I finished this novel, and in 2010: a royal Saudi sheik. The heroes who refuse to submit to his will - neither pragmatically, nor politically, nor in terms of Islam (which means "submission") - are Merritt Fury, an American entrepreneur, and a New York City police detective. The enablers who sic the Saudi mujahideen on them are the amoral, pragmatic denizens of the State Department.

We Three Kings is about how a single man, moved by the moral principle that one's life and property are one's own, can foil the faceless enablers and defeat a vicious conspiracy to deny him his property and his life. At issue is the possession of a rare gold coin, a British 5 Queen Una, given to Fury by a man whose life he saved. That man, Stephen Crenshaw, is subsequently murdered by Sheik Quamisi's thugs. Fury is then pressured by the State Department to let Quamisi have the coin. Fury refuses to surrender it. He knows that to surrender it, will also mean his own death. The sheik, for his part, wishes to exact vengeance on Fury for having killed his nephew when Fury foils a robbery being committed by the nephew. Fury's only ally in this conflict is police lieutenant Wade Lambert, who is also targeted for punishment by the sheik and by his own department for wanting to pursue the case.

Members Reviews:

A Self-Gifting Story

If you donât like cold, winter sunny mornings. And if you donât like heroes who smoke a lot. You know: âsmoking killsâ. Then, maybe, this short novel is not for you. On the other hand, if you want to see Islamic killers bettered at their murderous ways by Americans whose use of force against them is guided by powerful thinking skills: then maybe this is a book for you. And then thereâs one heroic character in the story who smokes something like three packs of cigarettes in one hour â to save his life. In here is one of the funniest two paragraphs Iâve read in literature. It has to do with a comparison of Arab culture to our old feuding American hill people, the Hatfields and the McCoys.

Thanks, Edward Cline. Thanks for a delightful, serious read.

Even more relevant today

I was excited to find a suspense novel written by Edward Cline available for Kindle. I was delighted upon reading We Three Kings to find that it lives up to my high expectations of the author of the outstanding historical fiction series Sparrowhawk, which brings to life the events leading up to the American Revolution.

Edward Cline proves once again that he has the imagination and ingenuity to create heroes. Merritt Fury is an entrepreneur who steadfastly defends his moral ideas and principles with ability, integrity and courage in the face of the gravest of dangers.

The story takes place during the Christmas season, a time of gift-giving and benevolence, but when Fury steps in to aid the victim of a fierce attack by a Saudi sheik's thugs, he finds himself face to face with malevolence and becomes enmeshed in a chilling clash of cultures and values. He and his sole ally, a police detective, become all too aware of the entrenched pragmatism within the departments of government entrusted with protecting their rights. They are left on their own and often hindered in their life and death struggles.

Although We Three Kings is the middle book of Mr.