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In this thriller that takes place in Colorado, two strangers are about to experience a financial windfall. On his deathbed, Dr. Ryan Duffy's father tells him about some money hidden in the attic. The only thing he will reveal her son is that the money came from a blackmail scheme towards someone who clearly deserved it. Confused, Ryan climbs the attic and discovers a hidden cache with two million dollars. The very next day his father passes away together will all his secrets about the money's origin. Hundreds of miles away, Amy Parkens receives a mysterious package. Inside there are stacks of bill totaling two hundred thousand dollars. Amy is full of disbelief and does not know what to do. Her grandmother, who has raised Amy for twenty years after the questionable suicide of her daughter-in-law, tells her to keep the money. Her 28-year-old granddaughter is unwilling to take the cash in good conscience unless she learns the provenance of this windfall. Through a good use of ingenuity she manages to track the money to Ryan's father who is unable to provide the answers she needs. Unfortunately this is as good as the story gets from there it goes downhill. What follows is a story clearly made for television involving a conspiracy forty years in the making. The author comes up with a ludicrous power scheme planned by teenagers four decades ago in which there is no way they could have predicted what their lives would become now. It reads like a scheme masterminded by Lex Luthor in a Superman comic. The story has a lot of suspense and action that will interest anyone with a short attention span. There is also a twist near the end of the book that caught me by surprise but did not save it from my opinion. The only thing that was missing from this movie-of-the-week template was the sex and romance. There is none in the book. One cannot help but wonder if the author was thinking movie rights while writing this book. It might explain why there are so many mistakes written in the plot continuity. It is not something that can be corrected with spell check. This book might make a good beach read for someone who wants to turn off their logic chips. That is all the credit it deserves.
Reviewed by Angel L. Soto, September 2002
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