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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780671034023
ISBN number: 0671034022
Label: Pocket
Manufacturer: Pocket
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 496
Printing Date: August 01, 2002
Publishing house: Pocket
Sale Popularity Level: 16561
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Bestselling author Julie Garwood has a new calling--contemporary romantic suspense fiction. While longtime fans of Garwood hope she won't forsake the historical romance genre that has been so successful for her, this versatile author is coming into her own as a creator of amazingly complex and detailed suspense novels. In Mercy, Theo Buchanan, the brother of FBI agent Nick Buchanan from Heartbreaker, Garwood's very first foray into suspense fiction, meets surgeon Dr. Michelle 'Mike' Renard when he throws up on her designer dress at a New Orleans gala. Dr. Mike saves Theo's life with an emergency appendectomy, enabling him to return to Boston and his job as a federal prosecutor.
But Theo can't stop thinking about Mike and her little hometown on the bayou. After concluding an investigation and trial that brings down a powerful organized crime syndicate, Theo receives several death threats and his boss recommends he keep a low profile. What better place to go incognito than Bowen, Louisiana, where the catfish practically throw themselves at your fishing pole and where a certain pretty young doctor is opening her new practice? But when Theo arrives, he finds life in Bowen isn't quite as idyllic as he thought. Someone has ransacked Mike's new office and seems dead set on harming her. As Theo struggles to protect Mike, he uncovers a ring of upper-crust criminals willing to do anything, even murder, to keep their dirty little secret--all $40 million of it--from being discovered. What connection could they possibly have to Mike? And why does everyone under the age of 18 keep calling Theo 'Coach'? Join perennial favorite Garwood on a journey into the quirky, close-knit communities of the Louisiana bayou and the journey a man and woman devoted to their careers undertake as they fall passionately in love. --Alison Trinkle
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Julie Garwood takes readers from New Orleans' exclusive Garden District to the backwoods of Louisiana's mysterious bayou country in an unforgettable novel of passion and suspense that cuts straight to the heart.
When esteemed Justice Department attorney Theo Buchanan is struck ill at a New Orleans gala, Dr. Michelle Renard works fast to save his life. Soon, Theo finds himself in a race to save her when Michelle is targeted by a deadly crime ring. They call themselves the Sowing Club, a devious foursome driven by greed to accumulate millions in a secret bank account. Now they're dead set on silencing Michelle, who might know the secret behind the killing of one of their wives. Dodging a world-class hit man and a band of cunning criminals, Michelle and Theo walk a narrow path between passion and survival.
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Julie Garwood created an electrifying tour de force in her suspense-charged bestseller Heartbreaker, a 'crackling good thriller' (New York Post) that pitted a relentless FBI agent against a madman in a frenzied race for one beautiful woman. Now, in this thrilling new novel, Garwood goes further down the dark road where passion and obsession meet. Like his FBI-agent brother Nick, Theo Buchanan is devoted to his crime-Þghting career. Only Theo works the other side of the desk as an esteemed Justice Department attorney. At a gala ceremony in New Orleans, he is suddenly struck ill and is rushed to a hospital where a brilliant and beautiful surgeon, Dr. Michelle Renard, saves his life. It is not the only life-and-death crisis that will ensnare Theo -- for he is about to uncover a ring of criminals bent on preserving their secrecy at any cost. They call themselves the Sowing Club: four white-collar professionals whose sophisticated crimes have amassed millions of dollars in a Cayman Islands bank account. The group is bound by a pact to leave the cash untouched until they accumulate a cool $40 million. But their leader, John, has begun to lose his focus in their 'all-for-one' commitment, distracted by and nearly bankrupt from his wife's grave illness. Knowing what must be done, John turns to his three friends. For the sake of the pact, their brand of crime must turn to the mercy killing of John's wife. But the line between mercy and murder quickly vanishes.... Now, in the small bayou town of Bowen, Louisiana, Theo Buchanan comes to the aid of Michelle Renard when her medical clinic is vandalized. What he discovers is chilling and deadly. As the relentless and cold-blooded Sowing Club sets out to silence Michelle, the one person who may have the information that will destroy them, Theo confronts the lies, greed, and evil that bind the lethal foursome -- and risks more than he ever has before. Michelle saved his life...now can he save hers?
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Julie Garwood has produced one of the most entertaining reomantic suspense novels that I've ever come across. This book is the PERFECT beach read.
Here's the skinny - Theo (a young widower) is a federal prosecutor. In New Orleans at a fancy banquet, he starts to feel sick and promptly throws up on Michelle, a beautiful young surgeon. Michelle takes him to the hospital, where she performs an emergency appendectomy. After some brief conversation upon his awakening, she departs for tiny Bowen, Louisiana, where she's from. See, Michelle is planning to leave the hospital and set up a little clinic in under-served Bowen so she can be close to her family and her home. When her father stops by the hospital to pick up some equipment being donated to the clinic, he and Theo have a little conversation about fishing, and an invitation to come fish in Bowen sometime is extended to Theo. You can see where this is going . . .
Storyline number two - Four friends who met in preparatory school have formed what they call "The Sowing Club," a secret alliance to procure ill-gotten gains. Dispersed in the banking, police, legal, and performance industries, the four friends are uniquely positioned to make mischief sucessfully, and they have squirrelled away millions of dollars. The friends have a pact that they will not touch the money until their 40th birthdays (still five years away at the novel's inception), when they will all cash out and go their separate ways. But something goes wrong with the club's plans, setting the two groups of characters (and their stories) on a collision course.
What really made this novel worth reading for me was the HILARIOUS cast of characters that Garwood used to populate little Bowen, Louisiana. I laughed out loud - OUT LOUD, I tell you! - reading some of their conversations. Funny, funny stuff. Plus, it was romance, suspense, with some nice human interest thrown in for good measure.
So, if you're looking for an easy beach read that will neither tax your mind nor offend it, I can reccommend this novel. Before I head out to the seashore again, I will pick up something Garwood has written.
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I read this when it very first came out and recently re-read it. It's much better than I remembered. I love the plot and how Theo and Michelle are thrown together. Theo and Michelle have great chemistry, and I love that Michelle is dynamic and smart and can hold her own. I completely "get" how they fell in love and why they're right for each other. There was some pretty good suspense, too, especially since I couldn't really remember what happened:)
What I like about Theo as a character is that he isn't just a macho alpha male. He has a caring, compassionate side, too. It was so sweet how he bought the boy a fence to keep the gator out, helped with the football team, made sure they got equipment, and worked a number of cases pro-bono. I did NOT remember Theo being this hot, but his being a good guy on top of everything else seals the deal. I was glad to see a return of Noah, although I reeeeeeeeally think his book should have been subsequent instead of John Paul's. It seems to me that Julie Garwood should have stuck with her obvious set up...that each of the brothers and sisters get their own novel. Suddenly we're branching off to John Paul's book???? At least with Noah he was featured prominently in two books. Anyways, to me, Julie Garwood's romantic suspense novels all started to go down hill from here, with the last 3 or 4 being terrible. Such a shame, too, since Noah was a fantastic character and ended up with a crummy book.
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i enjoyed this book very much i have enjoyed all of her books i believe i have read all of them
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Ms. Garwood has set the bar for romantic suspense! Heartbreaker was good, but Mercy was Wonderful. It picked up right away and was fast paced. Mercy was a perfect balance of mystery, suspense, comedy and sexy. Michelle and Theo were great and had awesome secondary characters. It will leave you hungry for more.
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This is one of my favorite Julie Garwood contemporary novels - love all of her historicals but this is by far my favorite contemporary of hers. All of the characters in this book are fun & memorable, and Mike's family is close-knit and loving which really made their interactions with both Mike & Theo fun and exciting. (Remi is a sexy character that shows up in 'Killjoy' which is also a really great book!) I've read both books several times!
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