Shelter from the Storm

By Michael Mewshaw

Book Overview

Michael Mewshaw, acclaimed author of Year of the Gun, introduces us to Zack McClintock, a former war hero easing the pain of a failed life with Chivas and antidepressants-until fate calls him back into action... When his son-in-law is kidnapped in Central Asia, Zack decides to pick up the trail. But there are two ransom notes. One demands a million dollars. The other offers to free the captive in exchange for a medical airlift to the United States for a mysterious feral boy. And as he wades into a world where law has collapsed, the local currency has no value, drug lords and Islamic fundamentalists jostle for power, and reality is as shifting and frightening as the graffiti on every wall, Zack comes face to face with his last chance for redemption-or his final, fatal mistake.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425193756
• ISBN13: 9780425193754
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Blue Hen Trade
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.9" x 0.8" x 6.1"

Customer Reviews

Chaos

You won't want to visit the "stans", Few survive, those who do are changed beyond their belief. A thriller that is much more. Damnation and redemption, hate and love. A skilled writer shows you people and places, that, if you are lucky, you will never get to see.

engaging suspense thriller

In Central Asia, American researcher Kathryn Matthews takes in a "wolf" boy who just materialized from the nearby wilderness. The natives believe animals raised the lad as he behaves as such. At about the same time, middle aged American Zack McClintock arrives in country seeking his missing son-in-law Zack after recently receiving a ransom note demanding one million-dollars. A second letter also arrived demanding instead of cash that Zack take a boy to America for treatment. The US State Department tells Zack to go home, but instead he goes deeper into the country escorted by the Russian Mafioso, Misha. Zack meets Kathryn and her "ward", the wolf boy, among other characters carving out a post Soviet enclave, but wonders where his in-law fits in this chaos.SHELTER FROM THE STORM is an engaging suspense thriller that showcases a nameless post Soviet State country struggling to find its identity in a strange world. The story line is action-packed. However, the plot fails to fully grip the reader because Zack's mission seems not only out of character, but it is also never totally understood why he went overseas and in country for someone he apparently does not like. Still Michael Mewshaw is a colorful author whose latest tale will provide shelter for sub-genre fans from the storms of boredom.Harriet Klausner