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Chargement... The Road to Silver Plumepar Tamara Allen
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Appartient à la sérieSecret Service (1)
Secret Service operative Emlyn Strickland may be new to field work, but his talent for identifying counterfeit bank notes, honed over ten years at the Treasury, has given Sing Sing's population a respectable boost. When counterfeiter August McKee takes illegal advantage of a sinking silver market, his former confederate Darrow Gardiner shares that information with Agent Strickland so they can track down the once-friend who left Darrow to rot in prison. Promised his freedom in return, Darrow's after something more. He wants possession of his best work, the flawless fifty dollar plates still in McKee's hands. And with a little maneuvering, he'll have the one thing a vengeful McKee may consider fair barter: the Secret Service operative whose testimony sent them both up the river. It seems an objective within Darrow's reach after he rescues Emlyn from an assassin, earning a measure of his trust in the process. But on the cross-country journey in search of McKee, another attempt on their lives leaves operative and outlaw stranded miles from Denver, with no one to rely upon but each other. Beset by turncoat agents, angry miners, and the burgeoning threat of a wealthy and powerful McKee, Darrow and Emlyn discover that standing on opposite sides of the law doesn't safeguard them from the dangers of friendship-or a deeper attraction that may force Darrow to choose between the real and the counterfeit as he's never done before. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
Auteur LibraryThingTamara Allen est un auteur LibraryThing, c'est-à-dire un auteur qui catalogue sa bibliothèque personnelle sur LibraryThing. Discussion en coursAucunCouvertures populaires
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The story is about a Secret Service agent, Emlyn Strickland, who specializes in counterfeit currency and a convicted forger, Darrow Gardiner, who has been serving time in Sing Sing. Strickland's testimony helped but Gardiner away, but it's not exactly a friends-to-lovers story because each respects the other's skills and the romance is a very slow burn (with an HFN rather than HEA ending).
The story revolves around Strickland and the Feds' efforts to nail a former confederate of Gardiner's for a massive counterfeiting operation. This requires them to travel to a silver mining town in Colorado by train. So the story opens in New York, spends quite a bit of time on the train ride through Chicago to Denver, and then winds up in Georgetown, Colorado. There are people after both Gardiner and Strickland all along the way.
The pace is very, very leisurely, and there is a lot of information about counterfeiting and forgery. As usual, Allen does an excellent job of establishing late 19thC New York, and she does an equally good job for the train journey and for Colorado (I know a bit about the history of silver mines there). There is never any doubt about who the bad guys are, but the action is still suspenseful.
My biggest problems with the book were (1) the descriptions were never-ending; and (2) the internal thoughts and monologues were way more expository than we needed. This is a nearly 300-page book that could have been cut by 50 pages without losing the atmosphere, in my opinion. You generally need description to create atmosphere, but you don't need to tell me about ten things in a small cabin; two or three will probably work. And let me do some of the work to understand what the characters are thinking and feeling.
This is self-published but the production quality is very good, as I've come to expect from Allen.
I wish I had liked it more. If you like a slow-burn romance with interesting characters which is set in the American west, give this a try. There's a good chance my disappointment is more about me than the book. (