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Betrayed Click title to read excerpt or buy from CBD.com By Jeanette Windle / Tyndale House Reviewed by Susan SleemanBetrayed is a well-written, vivid, timely thriller with a rich spiritual message expertly woven into the story.Working as an inspector for Children At Risk, a foundation that provides operating funds to children's projects throughout the world, Vicki Andrews travels to Guatemala City on what she thinks is another routine assignment. This assignment takes her to the slums of the city where she will stay at Casa de Esperanza to evaluate their program and determine if they are worthy to receive funding from Children At Risk. Before long Vicki is surprised to learn that she has a personal connection with the place. A connection that helps, Vicki, who was adopted as a young child, to discover her real identity. But Vicki is not the only foreigner hard at work in the civil war torn nation. Her sister Holly, an environmentalist with the Wildlife Rescue Center, meets with Vicki on her first day in the city and begs her to help investigate the theft of exotic animals from the Rescue Center. Vicki, while downplaying the thefts, refuses to help, and the next time she sees her sister it is too late to change her mind. Vicki finds Holly taking her last breaths in a large black garbage bag in the city's garbage dump. Warning, this scene is vivid and will stay with long after you put down the book. It's not gratuitous gore, but a disturbing and graphic scene that helps the reader realize that the country no more values many of their people than they do their garbage. The investigation into Holly's death is short lived, soon labeled a simple street crime by the local authorities and is prematurely closed, leaving Vicki determined to investigate and discover the real person responsible for Holly's murder. This is where the thrilling ride begins as Vicki sets off on a trail that leads to powerful people who want their identity kept hidden at all costs. Even if it costs Vicki her very life. If this is not enough of a plot to satisfy the reader, Windle ties the current day events to the death of Vicki's parents when she was but a child. Betrayed is a well-written, vivid, timely thriller with a rich spiritual message expertly woven into the story. The thoroughly researched details of the struggles in Guatemala draw you into the story from page one of the book, enlightening the reader on the country's current strife and the selfless individuals working to better the situation. Windle's intimate knowledge of the region brings the culture, the scenery, and the suffering to life for the reader. Susan Sleeman / The Christian Suspense Zone |
Jeanette Windle's Bio
A daughter of American missionaries, Jeanette Windle grew up in the jungles and small towns
of Colombia, now guerrilla hot zones. In 1981, Jeanette graduated magna cum laude with a degree in
Biblical Studies and Theology from Prairie Bible College in Three Hills, Alberta. In 1985, Jeanette and
her husband Martin moved to Bolivia to work with a nondenominational Christian mission organization.
While her husband served as director, Jeanette worked with women and children at risk in varied
regions of Bolivia. Jeanette began her publishing/writing career producing Spanish-language educational and inspirational material for women and children at risk as well as writing articles for a variety of international publications. This was followed over the next years by eight children's books, including the six books of the Parker Twins Adventure Series, a young adult mystery/suspense series set in a multicultural background. Her first major adult fiction release, CrossFire, a 630-page political/suspense novel set in the counter-narcotics war in Bolivia, was released in July, 2000. A teen novel, Jana's Journal, and a second adult political/suspense novel, The DMZ, set in the guerrilla warfare in Colombia, were released in spring of 2002. FireStorm, an exploration of Islamic terror ties in Latin America, was released, July, 2004. Her most recent suspense novel, Betrayed, is scheduled for release by Tyndale House Publishers in March, 2008, in both English and Spanish. Tyndale has also recently published The DMZ in Spanish as Zona de Despeje.
Jeanette and her husband Marty moved to Miami in June, 2000, when her husband assumed the position of Vice-President of General Services for Latin America Mission, a nondenominational Christian mission organization working throughout Latin America. In January, 2006, they moved again to Lancaster, PA, when Marty accepted the position of President of BCM International, another nondenominational mission organization serving in 50 countries on five continents.
Jeanette heads up BCM's media department, speaks and travels extensively both in the U.S. and internationally, and serves as consulting editor and mentor in developing indigenous writers in more than a dozen different countries from Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador, Brazil, Spain, to Croatia and the Philippines. She is recipient of Focus on Fiction's 2005 Deserted Island Book Award (i.e. the reading material of choice if one were headed to a deserted island). Jeanette is also recipient of the South Florida Writers Association 2004 Celebrity Author's Award and 2002 Mabel Meadows Staats Award. She served for three years as VP of Publication for the South Florida Writers Association and president of Miami-Dade Christian Writers and is currently president of Lancaster Christian Writers. Marty and Jeanette have four children.
Read more about Jeanette at: http://www.jeanettewindle.com
Suspense Books By Jeanette
| Betrayed Click title to read excerpt or buy from CBD.com By Jeanette Windle / Tyndale House When Duke University anthropologist Vicki Andrews learns that her sister has been murdered in Guatemala, she's determined to find the truth. Government authorities dismiss the death as just another mugging or kidnap-for-ransom---but she refuses to accept their verdict and launches her own investigation. Will what she discovers cost Vicki her ownlife? 350 pages, softcover from Tyndale. |
| FireStorm Click title to read excerpt or buy from CBD.com By Jeanette Windle / Kregel Publications Fleeing the ruins of her late husband's Bolivian drug empire, Sara Connor finds sanctuary in Miami with the help of special agent Doug Bradford. But her past catches up with her when old enemies resurface. A drug raid catapults Sara and Doug into a terrorist conspiracy that reaches deep into South America's lawless Tri-Frontier region. Can they stop the criminals before thousands of lives are lost? 560 pages, softcover from Kregel. |
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Susan Sleeman
Susan Sleeman
is the author of Nipped in the Bud, available May of 2009 from Heartsong Presents: Mysteries, an imprint of Barbour Publishing.
