内容简介:A shipwrecked survivor--and thief--saves a silver statue from the doomed \"Lusitania\" ocean liner, setting in motion a chain of events that will resound for decades. Nora Roberts\' newest fast-paced novel is a tour de force in which fortunes and failures depend on a simple twist of fate.编者评论 - Cahners Business Information (c) 2002Acts of thievery ultimately lead to justice in the wildly prolific Roberts\'s latest romantic suspense novel. The little silver statues representing Greek mythology\'s Three Fates are an art collector\'s dream: they\'re extremely valuable individually, but priceless as a trio and legend has it that when put together, they endow their owner with power over destiny. When a German U-boat torpedoes the Lusitania in 1915, petty burglar Felix Greenfield is in the midst of purloining one of the Fates from a first-class stateroom. Felix survives the ship\'s sinking and vows to reform. Flash to the present, in which three of Felix\'s descendants calculating Malachi, slick Gideon and intelligent Rebecca Sullivan have just had their Fate stolen by Anita Gaye, a ruthless and menacing antiques dealer. Vowing to recover Felix\'s statue, the three siblings depart Ireland to search the globe, finding love along the way with a pan-phobic Greek scholar, a stripper and a security expert. Like the Three Fates, the six principals learn that they will only be powerful enough to defeat Anita if they can operate as a single unit. Though it\'s a slick, snappy read, this character-heavy sudser is far from Roberts\'s best. She uses the words \"three\" and \"fate\" so often that the repetition becomes comic, the siblings\' exotic globe-trotting amounts to little more than location name-dropping and Anita, a villainess of Cruella de Vil proportions, is a caricature rather than a character. But Roberts has been so popular, and for so long, that her legion of fans will undoubtedly forgive her for this one while eagerly awaiting her next. (Apr.) 作者简介 (2002)Nora Roberts was born in Silver Spring, Maryland on October 10, 1950. Her first book, Irish Thoroughbred, was published in 1981. Since then, she has written more than 150 novels, which have been translated into more than 25 languages. She writes romances under her own name and crime novels under the pseudonym of J. D. Robb. She has been given the Romance Writers of America Lifetime Achievement Award and has been inducted into their Hall of Fame.n175
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