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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished. When he agrees to do a favor for his old friend Liz Carey in Corporate Fraud, Para-investigator Val Toreth is hoping for a simple case. After all, kidnapping and dismemberment are all in a day's work for the Investigation and Interrogation Division. But in the European Administration, simplicity is often a dangerous illusion, and anyone who goes looking for trouble in the corporate world is certain to find more than they bargained for. Fraud, sabotage, espionage, blackmail, decades-long vendettas, and murder--the more powerful the corporations, the darker their secrets. Corporate insiders and innocent bystanders alike are all too easily caught up in the conflicts, but when suspects can hide behind money and power, what chance is there of any justice? And on top of everything else, Toreth also has to deal with Keir Warrick. But that's easy. That's just sex. The sequel to Mind Fuck, this second book in the Administration series contains the novella Quid Pro Quo, as well as five short stories set in the near future dystopia of New London and centered around professional investigator and interrogator Val Toreth, and technical genius turned corporate Keir Warrick.… (plus d'informations)
This is the second novel of the Administration Series, sequel to Mind Fuck, in which we were first introduced to Toreth and Warrick. The first part of the book is similar to the format of Mind Fuck: there's a mystery and Toreth is attempting to solve it without getting himself into too much trouble. Once again, well written. I didn't expect, when I picked up these books, to get sucked into that aspect of the story. Following this "novella" as it is properly described are a series of stories which deal entirely with the developing relationship between Toreth and Warrick. I'm uncertain how I feel about this section of the book. The relationship continues to be very hot, yes, but you spend about 100 pp. reading about sex and control and intimacy, etc, etc, which can get to be too much when you read it all in one sitting -- basically, too much sex (I can't believe I just said that) and not enough plot outside the sex. In Mind Fuck, at least the sexual aspect was nicely balanced by the mystery. Here, the relationship is completely isolated and has to captivate the reader's attention without the assistance of the other plot. It's almost as if Manna Francis ripped out all the original sex scenes that were written into the main plot of Quid Pro Quo (probably bc they wouldn't have worked well with the "other" plot) and then jumbled them together at the end of the novel bc the reader needs to see this development in the relationship before the next novel in the series. ( )
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The author wishes to thank her husband and her editor, both of whom are once again at the top of the list. She’d also like to thank Kimberley at Casperian Books, for having the faith to put the Administration in print, and for giving her the push to write “Quid Pro Quo” itself.
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"God, it hurts. Hurry up."
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished. When he agrees to do a favor for his old friend Liz Carey in Corporate Fraud, Para-investigator Val Toreth is hoping for a simple case. After all, kidnapping and dismemberment are all in a day's work for the Investigation and Interrogation Division. But in the European Administration, simplicity is often a dangerous illusion, and anyone who goes looking for trouble in the corporate world is certain to find more than they bargained for. Fraud, sabotage, espionage, blackmail, decades-long vendettas, and murder--the more powerful the corporations, the darker their secrets. Corporate insiders and innocent bystanders alike are all too easily caught up in the conflicts, but when suspects can hide behind money and power, what chance is there of any justice? And on top of everything else, Toreth also has to deal with Keir Warrick. But that's easy. That's just sex. The sequel to Mind Fuck, this second book in the Administration series contains the novella Quid Pro Quo, as well as five short stories set in the near future dystopia of New London and centered around professional investigator and interrogator Val Toreth, and technical genius turned corporate Keir Warrick.
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