Category: Mainstream Publisher: Rose International Publishing House Inc.
ISBN-10: 1930574177
Type: Fiction
Pages: 304
Copyright: Oct 1 1987
A Novel For Every Woman Torn Between Her Principles and Love -- Dynamic women's fiction -Tensions Explode in New York City Labor Union Strike When Passions Are At War With Principles!
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SYNOPSIS
Tensions are running high as striking workers continue to picket the NEW
YORK MIRROR, the nation's largest daily newspaper. Thirty-something
Caroline Keller, born a Southern belle and now a tough-as-nails New Yorker
gal, takes her place at the bargaining table. She's the Labor Relations
Representative for The Mirror, and negotiations between the Management and
Newspaper Guild have deadlocked.
Lester Gordon, the President of the Newspaper Guild, of Cherokee ancestry
and renown as champion of the underdog, is the man making sure the demands
of the Guild are heard loud and clear, and met.
Seated at opposite sides of the table, locked in confrontation, Caroline and
Lester grow more and more voluble and more and more aware of each other's
presence.Both know that it is foolish to become involved with each other.
Both know it can ruin their careers.Yet neither of them can resist the flow of emotion and
crescendoeing passion.Despite their misgivings, Caroline and Lester are compelled
to enter into a relationship surely destined for heartbreak. Caroline knows their affair can
undermine her employer's confidence in her. She isn't sure that she can keep
her feelings for Lester apart from the issues they must resolve, and that
she'll be able to maintain the integrity and detachment vital to the
negotiations. Caught between her principles, loyalty to her mentor, the
profession to which she has dedicated many years, and Lester Gordon, the man
she loves, Caroline's final choice will have to be as defining as the Great
Newspaper Strike which is dividing them with its raging flames!
Professional Reviews
Sizzling Sensuality Set in the raw world of modern NYC journalism
... the individual characterizations and the sensual overtones of this story are its strength -- the people are complex and believable, and the love scenes are pulse-racing! RIDE THE EAGLE should not be read unless an amorous partner is near!
Kathe Robin, Romantic Times
Romance Has a New Jackie Collins
RIDE THE EAGLE'S author has unleashed fireworks of sexual combustion!
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Author scales the heights of romance!, RIDE THE EAGLE'S author has a nice touch with dynamic tension as she scales the heights of romance. Ride The Eagle soars!Nan H. Dopporto, Affaire de Couer,
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Reviewed by Danny L. Murr
5/28/2003
A REVIEW OF RIDE THE EAGLE by Dan Murr. A strike in any business has a tremendous effect on lots of people, moreso when it draggs on into months. When it goes that long, union bosses and management are generally miles apart, and haggling over major issues. Such is the case at the New York Mirror where Lester Gordon, the union negotiator, and Caroline Keller, the Mirror's labor relations representative, have their respective negotiating teams at odds with each other. Kristina O'Donnelly has not only put together an excellent plot, but she has managed to write this book with great passion, preciseness and emotion. She writes so well that you can feel the tension in the conference room where union and management are locked in heated negotiations; brings out the emotional upheavals that go on in such confrontations, the anger, frustration that almost triggers violence between two of the key players, even the tension of crossing a picket line. You can even feel the tautness in Caroline's body as she slips and slides across icy sidewalks on a windy, cold, snowy night, trying to get to Lester's office to deliver a talk from the heart as negotiations are at a crucial junction. O'Donnelly also develops a very heated, exciting, but controversial romance between Lester and Caroline, and you can feel the underlying concerns of both as they fall more deeply in love, and grow more physically attracted to each other, unaable to quell the fires that burn within. While you wonder what happens to the Mirror's strike, whether or not the shutdown of the newspaper and the intimacy between Lester and Caroline will have a bearing on their futures, she makes you wonder if their rrelationship will brilliantly flourish, or finally go down in flames. Kristina O'Donnelly makes you feel all the emotions involved, to want to keep reading on, anxious to get to the end for the climax, and once you're there, to keep going on and on. Ride the Eagle is an excellent, highly recommended book, a real five-star effort by Kristina O'Connelly. Dan Murr Clocktower Books Author of A NEED TO KNOW,ISBN: 0-7433-0094-7
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