5 reviews for Into The Whirlwind
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Into The Whirlwind
by Kat Martin
Description:
A bodyguard, a bounty hunter, a private investigator, no one can handle the heat like the men of BOSS, Inc. Megan O’Brien is at her wit’s end. Her three-year-old son has been kidnapped. No police, says the ransom demand. Fearing for her son’s life, Meg has no choice but to turn to her former bodyguard, Dirk Reynolds. Dirk’s never forgiven Meg for the way she left him after their brief affair. But with bounty hunter Luke Brodie on his side, Dirk knows he’s got to help Meg rescue her son. The few clues they’ve gathered send them spiraling into a murky world of big banking and international crime. Meg may be way out of her depths, but she’s seeing a side of Dirk she never suspectedone no woman could possibly resist.
About The Author
Kathleen Kelly Martin (born July 14, 1947) is an American writer of romance novels under the pen names of Kat Martin, Kathy Lawrence and Kasey Marx. She is married to writer and photographer Larry Jay Martin.
Kat Martin is the “New York Times “bestselling author of fifty-five books across multiple genres. Fifteen million copies are in print and she has been published in twenty-one foreign countries, including Japan, France, Argentina, Greece, China, and Spain. Her books have been nominated for the prestigious RITA award and won both the Lifetime Achievement and Reviewer’s Choice Awards from “RT Book Reviews.”
A resident of Missoula, Montana, Kat is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara, where she majored in Anthropology and also studied History. She and her author husband, L.J. Martin, spend their winters in Ventura, California. She is currently writing her next Romantic Suspense.
Skryf Review
“Excellent Reading”
Sejal
After beavering away like a good little boy on a review of Into the Whirlwind, I got so disgusted with the falseness and inadequacy of my response (even more so than usual) that I eventually gave up in despair. Instead, I’ll take this opportunity to elaborate on some comments I made below, since I’m still kind of hung up on the ethics of reading ‘survivor literature’ – a topic of zero interest to anyone who’s not a complete tool like myself. So fair warning. It’s very tempting to just leave it at that, writing off my gulag fascination as a tax-deductible, personal improvement expense. But the very neatness of the self-justification makes me suspicious. I love literature; I take it more seriously than almost anything else in the world, but I’m very sceptical of the proposition that we can learn anything essential about life just by ingesting a certain quantity and quality of printed matter. It’s an illusion to which intellectuals are prone: the idea that all the answers are buried away in books, waiting to be excavated – when the really important lessons are the ones that are branded and beaten into you by life itself.
Navya
Journey into the whirlwind recounts the story of active member of the communist Party for many years, Eugenia Semonovna Ginzburg, who was arrested like many of her fellow citizens during Stalin’s reign of terror on trumped up charges of being a Trotskyist terrorist counter-revolutionary and sentenced to prison. This book recounts her many years spent in prison and labour camps.This is a insightful story and sometimes while reading this book you may sometimes think ” This has to be exaggerated somewhat as it could not possibly have happened to this extent” but the sad fact is, it did happen to millions of people and these are the sort of books that reminds us that; “Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.”
George EliotThis book give a good insight into the prison system of the time and to arrests of ordinary people during Stalin’s reign of terror. A difficult book to rate, I did find it lacked the emotion I had expected from a memoir of this nature and I found the story ended rather abruptly.
parth
A fantastic and heart rendering book. Evgenia Ginzberg had a comfortable life in the 1920s and into the 1930s in Kazan, For reasons unknown she was arrested in one of the early purges and sentenced to prison. Due to the continuing purges and concomitant necessary changes to accommodate all the people who were imprisoned her solitary confinement was interrupted and she was forced to share a cell (prison wasn’t bad – there was a library service), later the two are deported to a labour camp in Siberia. The train journey is something almost magical for somebody who has been in a cell with one other person foe several years – of a sudden there is a railway wagon full of women, one of whom slightly bizarrely declares herself to be a Menshevik, though it seems to me highly unlikely that anything of Menshevik party structures could have survived that long. In Siberia, rations are proportional to work completed and the work they are set to is felling trees with an axe and dragging them back to a central point. Everyday working in deep cold Ginzburg finds herself weaker and weaker, she fells less and gets less food as her productivity decreases eventually she realises that she will die. Instead due to luck and kindness she becomes a nurse. At which point the translation abruptly ends. There is a second part to Ginzburg’s autobiography, I believe untranslated, detailing her years as a nurse in the labour camp, relationship with the Doctor (who if I recall correctly was a homeopath and seventh day Adventist) and their eventual release and settlement in ‘Golden Magadan’. Ginzburg drags the reader with her from a comfortable life through accusation and imprisonment, solitary confinement to Siberian labour camp up to the point of impending death, it is quite a reading experience.
Angaan
It made me realise that our idealistic ideologies from Democracy to Communism to Christianity to Workers’ Unions have to be guarded and defended with rigour since Human Nature being what it is, will hijack it and twist it to its own purposes – usually perverted and hiding behind the original to practise the exact opposite.Many, many years later the Acts of the Apostles were resurrected in Tsarist Russia. Evgenia Ginzburg and her husband and friends were idealistic Communists, eager to make a society in which equality was all and nobody went without, a glaring contrast to Russia under the Tsars and most of the European Continent. Unfortunately the Bolsheviks and finally Stalin were not sold on this belief and this was soon evident when the Ideal disappeared and the usual persecutions of the Faithful followed. Her remarkable story of endurance and survival is inspirational and unforgettable.A film “Within the Whirlwind”, the title taken from her second book,
and starring Emma Watson is sitting on my coffee table and due back at the DVD store tomorrow.
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