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Miami Mystery
intricate plotting, great action, too much soap opera
Hurricane season in Cuban Miami
Grabs your attention and doesn't let go
A few problems

Act of Betrayal
Edna Buchanan
Manufacturer: Hyperion Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0786889233

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Miami Mystery.......2006-09-12

Britt Montero is a half-Cuban newspaper reporter living in Miami. Britt claims to resent too much being made of her Cuban heritage, but focuses on little else, and the other half of her heritage doesn't even rate mention. While Britt is onto a big story about missing boys who all look alike, and tries to devote her time to gathering information for it, her personal life and Cuban roots keep getting in the way. She finally decides to take the time to delve into the mysteries of her own past when a prominent Cuban figure who has insisted only Britt may interview him reveals that he once knew her father. He also tells Britt about her father's diary, which supposedly still exists, even 30 years after her father was executed by Castro. Britt becomes even more entangled in Cuban exile politics when another of her father's old pals embroils her in his dramas. It all comes to a head with the arrival of a hurricane, which also ties in with the missing boys from Britt's big story, which answers all of Britt's questions, but leaves some of her issues unsolved.

The things that I disliked about this book are minor. Britt's best bud is a gullible idiot who gives an obvious liar and cheat way too many chances. Britt's either not too bright herself, or just a lousy friend, because she encourages it every time. Then, too much stuff tied together at the end, kind of a 2-for-1 special that would have been better kept separate. Also, Britt didn't solve her mysteries through deductive reasoning, but rather through dumb luck, which isn't my favorite way to see a suspense draw to a close.

While I didn't hate the book, I didn't find much to rave about, either. Britt is likeable enough, but doesn't have anything about her that stands out. She's not incredibly funny or clever, the side characters aren't all that special, and nothing particularly amazing happens. It's just sort of...vanilla. The story was good enough not to bore me, but not compelling enough to meke me pick up the book if I had something else I could do instead. It's just another selection from another mystery series with a female lead. Some people who really love books like that will likely love this one, but I like something with a little more oomph. I won't recoil in horror when I see Edna Buchanan books for sale, but I won't be knocking anyone over to get at them, either.

intricate plotting, great action, too much soap opera.......2004-12-02

For the record, I am reviewing this book as a book on tape. The dastardly plots amongst the Cuban exile community keeps this book racing along. Unfortunately, the soap opera of Britt's erratic love life slowed the story down. Nevertheless, it is a good book and I gladly recommend it.

As for the book on tape aspect - it was very well read, including pretty good accents for the aging Cuban conspirators. Good job.

Hurricane season in Cuban Miami.......2004-07-25

Like the author once did, Britt Montero thrives as a driven, resourceful crime reporter for steamy Miami's major daily. But the car-bombing of a Cuban journalist gives her job an uncomfortably personal dimension and perhaps it's that which compels her to look into an old missing-boy case for a distraught parent. Montero's digging uncovers a disturbing pattern of similar-looking missing boys, all thought to be runaways and given short shrift by the police.

But Montero is taken off the story in order to conduct an interview with a difficult leader of the Cuban-American community. Half-Cuban herself and long feeling an empathy with her dead freedom-fighter father, Montero accepts the assignment unwillingly but finds Juan Carlos Reyes intriguing.

Unbeknownst to her, Reyes knew her parents. He claims to have a diary of her father's somewhere in storage and promises to find it for her. Montero's mother suddenly refuses to speak to her and another old Cuban, a blustery fighter still trying to mount an invasion, tells a different story about the diary, tying it into the journalist's bombing murder.

The two story lines unfold in parallel as a killer hurricane (which Montero ignores) summons strength for an attack on Miami. Buchanan brings it all together in a splintering, action-packed conclusion featuring mayhem, murder and gruesome revelation. A fast-paced story, determined, likable heroine and rich Miami setting.

Grabs your attention and doesn't let go.......2003-10-23

This book has it all -- murder, kidnapping, political prisoners, mother/daughter conflicts and even an Act of God. Once the action starts, it doesn't stop. I have a few small quibbles with the book (for instance, the crime that starts the book is never fully explained), but it doesn't really detract from your enjoyment. Best of all, I liked Britt. Her frustration about her story of a lifetime getting pushed to the back burner really rang true with me.

A few problems.......2000-07-28

Buchanan's Britt Montero is a tough independent woman--which is always nice to see but her relationship with her fictional partners is weird. In ACT OF BETRAYAL, the reader is never privy to why Montero and McDonald's relationship is on and off. Furthermore, the author never allows the reader to glimpse, in any depth, what goes on in Montero's brain after the unexpected meeting of the two men in her life. I noticed the same lack of depth in MARGIN OF ERROR--as far as whoever Montero's present heart throb happened to be. The romances are sort of eruptive and then dormant. In addition to a lack of depth in part of Montero's character, a lack of depth was evident in other parts of the book. For instance, I found the reason behind Reyes' perversion to be very weak and unsatisfying. I also found that the plot would ebb and flow with too much detail and then not enough. The plot would nearly stumble and then rush to finish.

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Act Of Betrayal (Harlequin Presents)
Sara Craven
Manufacturer: harlequin
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 037310832X

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4th book's as great as the 1st 3 by any name!
Act of Betrayal by Morgan Avery (AKA Shirley Kennett)
ACT OF BETRAYAL: ANOTHER FINE NOVEL BY SHIRLEY KENNETT!
God book in this series
Not a bad read

Act Of Betrayal

Manufacturer: Pinnacle
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4th book's as great as the 1st 3 by any name!.......2001-01-03

Morgan Avery (AKA Shirley Kennett) strikes again! Her characters are so real you feel like you really know them. Be sure to read her 1st 3 books to top this one off! Keep writing, Shirley, no matter what name you have to use! Your fans will always follow your books!

Act of Betrayal by Morgan Avery (AKA Shirley Kennett).......2000-11-29

This is the latest installment in the crime/mystery series involving P.J. Gray and Leo Shultz. I have been a fan of this series for years and this is my favorite. All the suspense and action is there and it seemed a little less graphic than her previous novels. I am careful when I start one of Shirley Kennetts books because I know I will not be able to put it down util I finish it! I look forward to the next one!

ACT OF BETRAYAL: ANOTHER FINE NOVEL BY SHIRLEY KENNETT!.......2000-09-24

That's right, Shirley Kennett. This novel is the latest book in the series that features cybersleuth P.J. Gray and veteran police detective Leo Schultz. As in her previous books, Ms. Kennett (a/k/a Morgan Avery) seamlessly blends mystery, suspense, romance, and the right amount of technical information about police procedure.

God book in this series.......2000-08-19

In St. Louis, Cat waits for the arrival of Rick Schultz, just released from prison after serving time for selling illegal drugs to students. During his jail time, Rick received mail from Ginger Miller, promising him a good time upon his release. Now he comes to meet Ginger for the first time, but instead of the woman, Cat hits Rick and ties him up inside a tent containing cyanide.

A few days later, the police led by cybersleuth PJ Gray investigate Rick's murder, which is personal because the victim is the son of Veteran Detective Leo Schultz. However, the next morning Leo's car is involved in a vehicular homicide when his automobile is seen running down a 4-year-old child who was playing on the sidewalk. The police look for Leo, who has vanished. Leo knows he is in a game of cat and mouse with him being the rodent and only PJ on his side.

ACT OF BETRAYAL is a chilling police procedural that centers on revenge. The story line is taut as the action begins on page one and never eases up for a moment. PJ is an intriguing single mom who combines her psychology skills with her computer abilities into a new type of sleuth. Leo is superb, realizing his role in the game with his unknown opponent is to serve as a victim. Throw in some clever twists with a fresh, unique mystery and readers will call for more PJ stories soon from Morgan Avery.

Harriet Klausner

Not a bad read.......2000-06-08

This book has plenty of action and the main character is very likable. There are several suprises which will catch the reader off guard. The main character's job as a developer of computer simulation of crime scenes does not really enter into the plot. This is an element that could have given the book more interest...perhaps in the next one?

Betrayal and Other Acts of Subversion: Feminism, Sexual Politics, Asian American Women's Literature

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smart and helpful
a daring book

Betrayal and Other Acts of Subversion: Feminism, Sexual Politics, Asian American Women's Literature
Leslie Bow
Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
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Binding: Paperback

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Asian American women have long dealt with charges of betrayal within and beyond their communities. Images of their "disloyalty" pervade American culture, from the daughter who is branded a traitor to family for adopting American ways, to the war bride who immigrates in defiance of her countrymen, to a figure such as Yoko Ono, accused of breaking up the Beatles with her "seduction" of John Lennon. Leslie Bow here explores how representations of females transgressing the social order play out in literature by Asian American women. Questions of ethnic belonging, sexuality, identification, and political allegiance are among the issues raised by such writers as Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Bharati Mukherjee, Jade Snow Wong, Amy Tan, Sky Lee, Le Ly Hayslip, Wendy Law-Yone, Fiona Cheong, and Nellie Wong. Beginning with the notion that feminist and Asian American identity are mutually exclusive, Bow analyzes how women serve as boundary markers between ethnic or national collectives in order to reveal the male-based nature of social cohesion.

In exploring the relationship between femininity and citizenship, liberal feminism and American racial discourse, and women's domestic abuse and human rights, the author suggests that Asian American women not only mediate sexuality's construction as a determiner of loyalty but also manipulate that construction as a tool of political persuasion in their writing. The language of betrayal, she argues, offers a potent rhetorical means of signaling how belonging is policed by individuals and by the state. Bow's bold analysis exposes the stakes behind maintaining ethnic, feminist, and national alliances, particularly for women who claim multiple loyalties.

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smart and helpful.......2001-09-01

Smart stuff. I found this book especially lucid because it nicely integrates "theory" with sharp textual readings of Asian American texts. And it's just not some static application of race or gender theory that Bow uses. She instead makes original use of different ethnic contexts, psychoanalysis, political history to bring AsAm lit into a wider theoretical context.
This book is big help in thinking about what I want to do this year (my senior year!) for my thesis.

a daring book.......2001-04-17

"Betrayal and Other Acts of Subversion" is a daring book. Beginning with its forceful and extended introducton, the book unsettles received expectations about cultural and literary politics. Bow argues that betrayal, like subversion, cuts both ways. What we take to be subversive (such as the works of Asian American literature she later interprets or the claims to Asian American identity themselves)might also be betrayals to principles based on *American* democracy and subject positions based on sexuality or ethnicity. And what we might take to be a betrayal of one sort of cultural identity may also work to signal strict adherence to a different sort of cultural identity.

She situates her complex yet lucid readings within wide historical frames. She talks about Wendy Law Yone to initiate a wider commentary on human rights and democracy; she reads "Farewell to Manzar" to theorize the links between sexuality and citizenship; she interprets "Fifth Chinese Daughter" in ways that gesture to a larger commentary on Americanization and the Cold War. In short, I found her readings elegant. The book deploys exemplary textual readings to undertake investigations of nationalism in transnational economies (e.g. her reading of Fiona Cheong's "Scent of the Gods"), feminine sexual identity in patriarchal economies, and literary narative within academic economies indebted to the positing of resistance.

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Real Life Issues
A MUST READ

Brittani - Acts of Trust and Betrayal
Camille Peay
Manufacturer: Xulon Press
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ASIN: 1600343724

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The Beginning of a New Series From Camille Peay; Book 1 in the Tru-2-Life Series is a youthful approach to adult issues. Life lessons include thought provoking discussion and study guide.

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Real Life Issues.......2006-12-20

This book was a very easy read. It was short and to the point. However, its subject matter was very prevalent to today's teens. It is important to continue to discuss this issue until it has been alleviated and this book is a great contribution to dealing with this real life issue. My 13 year old daughter read this book and could not put it down. She took it to school and had a discussion with her teacher. She definitely recommends it to all teens and I recommend it to all adults. My daughter and I are eagerly anticipating the next book. I want to thank the author for taking a step toward alleviating one major problem that our teens are facing.

A MUST READ.......2006-11-29

This story was one that should be read by all teenage girls. I loved the way the author went directly into the issues and addressed all my thoughts and questions. This is exactly the type of writing that would catch a young persons attention and hold it throughout. The characters were very realistic and their problems are relatable. It was easy for me to become caught up in each characters life and what they were feeling. I can't wait to learn more about them! And, the fact that the book was designed to be used as a learning tool and instrument to initiate dialogue for young women and their parents is the best part. I can't wait to read more from this brilliant author!

Act Of Betrayal, By Edna Buchanan, Unabridged 7 Audio Cassettes, 10.25 Hours, Narrated By Barbara Caruso

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Act Of Betrayal, By Edna Buchanan, Unabridged 7 Audio Cassettes, 10.25 Hours, Narrated By Barbara Caruso
Edna Buchanan
Manufacturer: Recorded Books, Inc.
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Binding: Audio Cassette

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"ACT OF BETRAYAL BY EDNA BUCHANAN, UNABRIDGED 7 AUDIO CASSETTES, 10.25 HOURS, NARRATED BY BARBARA CARUSO: Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Edna Buchanan returns in this explosive novel of stunning international intrigue set in sweltering south Florida. When a fatal bomb blast propels strong-willed and intense Miami News crime reporter Britt Montero into the biggest story of her career, she has no idea that it will change her life. More than one evil prowls the city. A growing number of blond-haired, blue-eyed teenagers are vanishing without a trace. Britt's persistent questions force long-buried secrets and acts of betrayal to churn to the surface in Miami. Evan as a devastating hurricane reaches shore, Britt continues to dig for answers. As the mysteries converge, the answer---miraculously---is found in her father's thirty-year-old diary, where Britt learns the horrifying truth about the bombing, the missing boys, and her own past. "Edna Buchanan owns the Miami crime scene...nobody does it better." ---Margaret Maron "AudioFile says "In portraying all emotions...Barbara Caruso's reading really shines." [from case]

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Act of Betrayal
Edna Buchanan
Manufacturer: New York: Hyperion, 1996
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NVLLLS

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Act of Betrayal
Edna Buchanan
Manufacturer: Books On Tape Inc.
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Binding: Audio Cassette

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ASIN: B000O82AV0

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Act Of Betrayal

Manufacturer: Tvs
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0552134376

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Acts of Subversion
Liz McManus
Manufacturer: Poolbeg Press
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ASIN: 1853711241

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