Product Description

Footsteps in The Dark Partners in Crime 3 By Josh Lanyon & Sarah Black Spy Something Bloody Espionage was always a game, but now British spy Mark Hardwicke wants to retire and settle down with ex-lover Dr. Stephen Thorpe -- if Stephen will have him. Unfortunately, Stephen has other plans -- and so do the terrorists who want Mark dead. Murder At Black Dog Springs Code-talker Logan Kee returns to his home on the Navajo Reservation from the battlefields of Saipan. But a new battle is waiting for him. Uranium mining has begun within the four sacred mountains. When the old hand-trembler dies at Black Dog Springs, rumors fly that Leetso, the yellow monster, has been set free to walk the land.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #427613 in Books
• Published on: 2008-06-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 236 pages

Customer Reviews

I spy Josh Lanyon.
The beginning of this novel is incredibly moving and you feel the ache within Mark. On a lonely road in a phone box, with rain and moor, the opening was vividly written. Mark is a man driven beyond all tolerance and into utter exhaustion. He is desperate to come home and be with the one normal person in his life, but unsure if it's a mistake to go there or not.

Lanyon has a way of making you feel like your heart is in your mouth sometimes. It is a viseral feeling and though I detest the thought of crying during a book, when Stephen is telling Mark it has been 2 years, it was heart wrenching stuff. Mark knows he has screwed up royally but it is not until that moment that he realises that any chance he has had with Stephen may be indeed lost. He cannot even speak let alone bring himself to find the words and subsides into quietness...I challenge you not to be blinking back watery eyes.

Do not be lulled into a false sense of security that Mark is going down without a fight however. Despite suffering from barely healed wounds and quite possibly PTSD, he is starting to realise that the best thing in his life is Stephen. Even though he kids himself into thinking he is just playing up to what Stephen wants to hear, really he is finally allowing himself to be vulnerable. I think subconsciously he knows he is allowing himself to be open to Stephen but the reality of rejection is just too much to bear.

Vulnerability, in Lanyon's novels, is always a powerful theme for me and is quite possibly why I find his writing unutterably addictive. Letting down your guard and allowing another person into your own true self and being vulnerable to rejection. Heady stuff. I also wonder if this is one of the reasons I find this genre so compelling.

Beautiful, poignant and not a dry eye in the house. I suggest you stampede your way down that store isle and get reading now. Gush, much? heh.

Partners Delivers Again
I wish that I could read something written anonymously by Josh Lanyon so that I may know for certain whether it is the work or him that I love. As that pepsi challenge is highly unlikely I'll have to resign myself to craven groupiehood. Lucky us, this man can't seem to put out anything but stellar work. This story is a bit of a departure for him as it is light in the mystery content, in the conventional sense. Rather than a caper to solve, it is the main character's life and true desires that presents the mystery which unfolds in very satisfying fashion with much authenticity and bittersweet humor.

I have often had difficulty connecting with Black's stories, though the quality is always evident. However "Murder..." truly grabbed me from first to last. The characters are vivid and the emotional content palpable. Perhaps the main theme just seemed so prescient, the experience of young people returning from the ravages of war to the broken trajectory of their lives and somehow, with great effort, finding peace. Whatever the case may, don't miss this offering in the Partners in Crime series.

Partners in Crime
I am one of Josh Lanyon's groupies so you ought to know that going in. However, this was a new direction for him and I really enjoyed the story. Sarah Black's stories are always good and this one was great. I can't say enough good things about the Partners in Crime Anthologies. MLR has done a really good job of putting complementary authors together to help balance each story.