Title: Two Days in Caracas
Series: A Titus Ray Thriller
Series: A Titus Ray Thriller
Author: Luana
Ehrlich
Website: http://www.luanaehrlich.com
Genre: Christian
thriller
ISBN: 1511628650
ASIN: B00ZPQYHIK
Amazon Purchase Link: http://www.amazon.com/Two-Days-Caracas-Titus-Thriller-ebook/dp/B00ZPQYHIK
Originally reviewed by Ron English for
Amazon
It
has been said that a new author often will produce a good book on her first time
out, but then struggle to produce a second. That has not been your case Luana
Ehrlich. Two Days in
Caracas beautifully dovetails into the wake of your first book, One Night in Tehran. I somewhat expected your new work might have toned down the action of Titus Ray, or at the least just drift into his next adventure. No. That was not the case.
Caracas beautifully dovetails into the wake of your first book, One Night in Tehran. I somewhat expected your new work might have toned down the action of Titus Ray, or at the least just drift into his next adventure. No. That was not the case.
Two Days in Caracas delivers new
thrills, more depth into the mind and life of your growing character, Titus Ray,
while promising more intrigue from future stories. You delivered such skill in
drawing me into Titus Ray’s background of family and old hurts and then wove
into his heart a new, growing affection for the police detective, Nikki Saxon.
Where one might expect a passionate display of fast moving sex and love you
handle this relationship with the kind of drama I recall from the old westerns
where the cowboy has grace and reluctance and then rides off into the sunset
leaving the reader wanting more. This book has it all. Danger—plenty of that,
travel to foreign lands--for sure; characters that are so believable you might
sense you know these folks. You surely develop an interest in turning the page
to see what will happen next. Since I live in Norman, Oklahoma, I kept hoping
that Titus Ray would return and let me glimpse more of his new life in our
familiar surroundings. You did not disappoint. I marvel at the way you let Titus
Ray grow into his new faith. You have not forced any religion onto these pages,
but let this part of his life make a gentle impression on the reader as it does
so in his expanding experience. His learning to pray is so new to him it reminds
one of a child growing in grace and knowledge. His faith, while strange to him,
is such a natural part of who he is and who he is becoming. His love for Nikki
is refreshingly tender with just the right amount of desire and fear one might
expect from a decent man living a dangerous life and chasing bad guys. And chase
them he does. Not a curse word in the book and yet nothing is taken away from
this adult story of action, love, assassins, kidnapping and murder. Great book.
You have introduced me to a new kind of fiction where I can believe this story
is a true life adventure of a man, his work, his love, his dog making me care
for them all. Now I must wait for your provoking promise of Titus ray’s next
adventure in Washington. Hurry, please.
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