Fatal Beauty

Joan McGrath is a Toronto Board of Education library consultant.

An important American businessman has been kidnapped by terrorists in Italy, but to an American housewife, Juno Sultan, the crucial item in the news flash is the fact that his assistant has been snatched as well — her son, Michael. Juno is a handsome and vigorous lady who would face down a snarling tiger to protect her young, never mind the CIA agents, who tell her to stick to her knitting. Her knitting, she decides, is in Italy, where Michael needs his mother. Juno is off, leaving a trail of death in her wake of which she is single-mindedly unaware. In this tangled tale of intrigue in which the good guys’ hats are just as black as the bad guys’, Juno finds adventure, temptation, extreme physical danger, and Michael. And she learns more about her son than she had ever wished to know, in this fast-paced, bloody, exciting thriller by the author of The Taking of Pelham One Two Three.