Richard Wymes Silver Eyes

Silver Eyes

Richard Wymes

Llumina Press, 2002, $27.95, 158 pp.

ISBN: 1932047913

In South Boston, defense attorney Marie Blackburn and her police officer spouse Taylor rescue their kidnapped seven year old niece Shaney. Taylor kills the abductor. A few days later, Taylor informs Marie they must hide as the kidnapper's cronies are coming to execute Shaney and her twin Sarah because they can identify them as the robbers of an armored truck containing millions. He also insists that he cannot trust his peers in blue as some mole inside tipped the bad guys.

The extended family flees to isolated Birch Lake, Maine, but on the way two thugs try to kill Marie, her nieces, and their mom. They make it to the family home, but the thieves are coming because they need to silence the siblings whose special gifts of seeing have turned into a nightmare.

This is an exciting thriller with a twist of an ending that will astonish most readers, but thinking back over the plot, Richard Wymes left clues for the reader to see what is coming (this reviewer failed at the obvious). Though one of the crazies to assault Marie and company seems too unstable for the pros coming after the women, the rest of the cast is solid especially the fears that the four females exude. Fans of terse action-packed thrillers with females in trouble story line will appreciate SILVER EYES, a fabulous thriller.

Harriet Klausner