"Holly Hoffman is undoubtedly one of our brightest young authors. False Signals leads the reader down paths that have seldom been trodden by any of our recent mystery-weavers." June Hathaway, St. Petersburg, Florida.
"An amazing tale that merges fiction with reality, romance with peril, and deceit with duplicity. One of the most captivating mysteries that I've had the privilege to read." Allen Worthington, Arlington, Texas.
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First published in 1994, just after the Gulf War, this tale of conspiracy and fraud has been updated slightly to fit in the world of 2004 and Iraqi Freedom. Holly Hoffman has just completed revisions to her popular mystery novel, in which she weaves a web of intrigue that keeps the reader on the edge of their ebook keyboard.
As the nature of the conspiracy at the International Banking Corporation becomes clearer, it also becomes painfully obvious that the road to foiling the diabolical plot is littered with murder and mayhem. Holly's characters emerge and change with startling rapidity as the mystery unfolds, until we ultimately see Susan Montgomery blossoming as the unlikely heroine. As she evolves from a flirtatious floozy to a force to be reckoned with, she leads the team of amateur sleuths as they slowly, but surely, break down the wall of Government treachery protecting the world-wide false signal scheme.
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Susan Montgomery had learned very early in life that she could use her looks to get what she wanted. She'd been on her own since she was 16 and had always used her feminine wiles to get where she wanted to be. Now she was entangled in a plot that required more than her usual flirtatious trickery to get out of. She was soon surprising even herself by supporting, and ultimately leading, the bold efforts to understand and undermine a diabolical conspiracy.
This mystery begins in San Diego, but eventually meanders on to Mexico, Maui, Leningrad, Paris, and several major U. S. metropolitan areas. It tells the story of three young idealists who discover that their project isn't the humanitarian enterprise they had been led to believe that it was, but is actually the front for an organization causing mayhem and turmoil throughout the world. As they laboriously unweave the web of intrigue, they find danger at every turn, starting with the merciless murder of their project lead in Chapter 1 and intensifying through the tale's other 28 chapters.
You'll be on the edge of your keyboard as you scroll through this ebook, challenged to predict who will be the next to go and who the final hero (or heroine) will be. As the line between the good guys and the bad guys blurs, you will join the characters in wondering who they can trust and which Government agency is going to threaten them next. You'll be surprised and gratified by the romantic Happily Ever After ending, but that's not the end of the story. The tale's not over until it's over ... and maybe not even then.
References to security breaches and associations of U. S. Government agencies to Savings and Loan scandals, Iran/Contra, the downfall of Noriega, the Gulf War, and countless other earth-shaking affairs are completely fictional and any similarity to situations or persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
