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Description
Take a character as multi-dimensional as Tony Soprano. Pair him with a mother and daughter in peril and on the run. Add a clinical psychologist tasked with helping them negotiate their new lives - a program with an agenda all its own - and the result is a book that Stephen White's peers are already calling "one of the best thrillers you will ever read" (William Bernhardt) and "an exciting ride through a dark region of law enforcement." (Peter Abrahams).
When New Orleans District Attorney Kirsten Lord and her nine-year-old daughter are imperiled by a chillingly believable death threat, Lord has no other choice but to accept the Witness Protection Program's offer to hide them in Boulder, Colorado. There, they meet program veteran Carl Luppo, a solitary mob hit man who is tormented by his former life and has nothing but time for regret. Sensing that Lord and her daughter's safety has been compromised, Luppo takes on the role of sentinel, fully realizing this might be his last shot at redemption. While Lord suspects that Luppo's warnings about the program's dark side are for her own protection and that she should believe the former assassin's instincts, the only person she can really trust is nine-years-old.
This thriller's strengths are its suspenseful beginning and exciting finale. In between, it takes Sandra Burr's solid reading to hold the listener's interest. It starts when D.A. Kirsten Lord witnesses the murder of her husband. She and her daughter enter the federal Witness Protection program to elude the killer. In the program, she encounters Karl Lupo, a "wise guy" also in hiding. Lupo becomes her protector. Though White's development of the pair's relationship is superficial and overly talky, Burr compensates with a sharp reading and winsome voice until the real action starts and the assassins are undone. Her only flaw is an unintentionally comic portrayal of a Cuban thug. A.L.H. (c) AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine
About the Author
Stephen White is a clinical psychologist and the New York Times bestselling author of sixteen novels, including Kill Me and Dry Ice. He lives in Colorado.
