It’s not often we at Lovereading travel into the territory of promoting a title that comes in unsolicited from a self-published author but this is one that really caught our eye. Rivenaes has real talent for dialogue and for gripping the reader throughout with a complex yet utterly riveting plot presented in effortless fashion. He's created some brilliantly drawn characters you will care about and some terrific interplay between them. It is a beautifully written, multi-faceted, multi-layered political action thriller, much like Tom Wolfe’s Bonfire of the Vanities and written with a multitude of ingredients including drama, humour, love, action and suspense making it much more than a thriller. It's intriguing, fulfilling and ultimately consuming and will linger on in your psyche long after you’ve finished it.
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Angelo Vargas was an enigma, a man from nowhere who had followed a perilous path through a restless and eventful life. The time had come to leave his ‘diplomatic activities’ behind and settle in England to search for his shrine. His partner, the unrestrained and incorrigible Japanese Tadashi Ishihara, shared Vargas' dream but there was one more assignment looming over the horizon: the most challenging and financially rewarding plot he had ever contemplated.
Igor Parkhurst, a writer contemplating his former glory, becomes a pawn in Ishihara's plan to achieve his two objectives: to access to the higher echelons of British society, and to use Parkhurst as the link to the forces threatening the future of the newly elected American President. However, Ishihara makes a slip. He does not take into account Jennifer Moran, Parkhurst's goddaughter, whom Vargas comes to see as the goddess of his shrine. Ishihara regards her as an annoying obstacle. Having made his living in the pit of human existence, Vargas refuses to give up the very woman who can give him a new lease of life. Ishihara is equally determined to achieve his goals.
Ishihara's own wife, Jasmin, also has her reasons to persuade Vargas to take on one final assignment. However nobody can predict the implications and the consequences in a drama where Life plays against Death.
Those Who Leave features in the following genres: Debut Books of the Month, Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Thriller and Suspense, eBooks of the Month, Recommendations, General Fiction, Fiction
Those Who Leave is available in Paperback
Those Who Leave was written by Ivar Rivenaes and published by Varde Books
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