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Emerald Enigma C.j. Westwick Krell Press
Emerald Enigma
C.J. Westwick
Krell Press, Aug 2006, $26.95
ISBN: 0977600904
Bernie Lustfield is very happy with the eighteen emeralds he bought in the Bombay shop on the French side of the island of St. Martin in the West Indies. He is relaxing on Antigua by the boat when the bartender serves him a drink and he immediately keels over and dies. The man goes to Bernie's room to retrieve the emeralds before disappearing. Multistate Insurance offers private detective Bret Lamplighter $250,000 to recover the gems.
The local police are unhappy to see DEA Agent Lamplighter return to the island since his last visit resulted in the deaths of innocent civilians and cops. Upon his arrival his hotel room is blown up as well as much of the remainder of the two floors above and beneath his room. Bret is in his villa at the beach with men on a boat firing machine guns at him. Life is normal for him, but no one else as he uses his contacts to discover that the emeralds are part of a smuggling operation based in Columbia. Bret travels to Columbia, dodging a myriad of people wanting him dead, in search of the emeralds knowing each step closer to his objective is one step closer to death.
Action and adventure in an Indian Jones type of way is the essence of the first Lamplighter caper. Bret enters a world where it is impossible to tell friend from foe so he assumes everyone is his enemy except French operative Abby Duchamps, sent to spy on his activities; is attracted to him as he is attracted to and she is determined to keep him alive. They are cute together which enhances the well developed lead character, making him more approachable, in C.J. Westwick's wild thriller.
Harriet Klausner
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