Chains of Fire - The Chosen Ones

Informationen zum Autor Christina Dodd is a New York Times bestselling author whose novels have been translated into twelve languages. She lives in Washington with her husband and two dogs. Klappentext The fourth novel in the Chosen Ones series-from the New York Times bestselling author of Storm of Shadows. Samuel Faa is a Gypsy lawyer with the power to control minds. Isabelle Mason is wealthy! privileged! and refined! and has the gift for healing. Two of the Chosen Ones! they share a past filled with love and betrayal! and a future denied by fate-until the day they're trapped underground. No way out. No way to deny the passion that still burns beneath the surface. And when danger threatens! Isabelle has only one choice: to place her trust in the power of the one man she could never forgive...or forget. Leseprobe Chapter One Zurich, Switzerland Martha’s information about the security in the Swiss Bank was dated. Samuel went through not two metal detectors, but five, and two full-body scans. The guards politely requested he remove his shoes, and they examined them with a machine that had so many warnings printed on its side and made such ominous noises Samuel wanted to cover his balls or step behind a lead wall or something. He intended to have children someday. He was contemplating the lineup of shoes from the poor schmucks who didn’t get theirs returned to them when the guards very politely requested his pen, his belt, his tie clip, and his watch. They placed them in a safety-deposit box, had him lock them inside, and gave him the key. Then they frisked him. The Swiss took their security very, very seriously. Don’t make a joke. Don’t mess up now. He heard the woman so clearly, he turned to see where she stood. But she wasn’t here. She was in New York, in a hospital, sitting at Irving Shea’s bedside, smelling of cigarettes and passing on Irving’s instructions in that freaking spooky telepathic way of hers. Dina was in her sixties, short, bitter . . . and a mind-speaker, one of the most talented ever born. She was also one of the Others. She held an old and towering grudge against Irving, and why any of them were trusting her, Samuel didn’t know. Why he was trusting her, he didn’t know. If he got caught trying to pull this off, he’d be the one rotting in a Swiss jail for the rest of his life. Life’s full of tough choices, isn’t it? that rough female voice asked. “Damn it!” he said. The guards looked up inquiringly. “Stubbed my toe,” he explained. Inside his head, Dina laughed. He didn’t react to her amusement, but only because he knew cameras followed his every move, and somewhere a computer was analyzing his features, looking for his resemblance to any known criminal. Not that the Swiss banks didn’t allow known criminals to hold accounts in their hallowed vaults, but they liked to make sure those criminals didn’t have designs on other criminals’ money. He knew how this operation was supposed to work. They—the Chosen Ones, aided and abetted by Martha, their Gypsy Travel Agency adviser—had set up Samuel’s schedule. He was to go into the bank, talk to the bank president (the bank president and no one else, Martha warned), and convince him to open the Gypsy Travel Agency accounts, frozen since the explosion of the headquarters almost three years before. Because with Irving in the hospital and deemed incompetent by his doctors, the Chosen Ones’ funds had dried up and they were in danger of losing their shirts, not to mention Irving’s mansion and their ability to perform the task for which they had been recruited—rescuing abandoned children from the Others. Samuel couldn’t carry a wire or have any mechanical way to remain in touch with the Chosen Ones, so he had memorized script after script of what to say, what to do, whom he might meet...

Product details

• Authors: Christina Dodd
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.09.2010
• EAN: 9780451412928
• ISBN: 978-0-451-41292-8
• No. of pages: 431
• Dimensions: 107 mm x 172 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Signet; The Chosen Ones; Chosen Ones
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature