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The Mask of Time

Name: The Mask of Time
Author: Marius Gabriel
ISBN: 9780553089882

by Marius Gabriel

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Overview

When journalist Anna Kelly's mother, Kate is attacked and left in a coma, Anna searches the wreckage of Kate's Vail, Colorado, apartment for the reason behind the savage act. Kat had become obsessed with her hunt for an American World War II POW who may or may not have survived the Nazi camps. And now Kate's daughter finds tantalizing clues to decades-old secret.

Anna will learn from the first time about her mother's birth in wartime Italy to brave young Candida Cipriani, and Candida's two lovers--and she will take up Kate's search for the one who may yet live. But Anna is not alone in her quest. Philip Westward, a man of vast wealth, is as obsessed as Kate, but with a different and very private mission of his own.

Anna is not sure she can trust Philip, but she cannot resiste him any more than she can resist learning the dangerous truth behind the story of a lifetime--the story of her own life.

A spellbinding and provocative tour de force, THE MAST OF TIME will haunt you long after its final stunning revelation.

Journalist Anna Kelly, searching her mother's trashed condo, finds clues to a mystery that plunges her into a firestorm of passion, violence and betrayal, now rekindled after 50 years. Anna's journey takes her from the chaos of wartime Europe to a Soviet gulag and to Philip Westward, a man of vast and unexplained wealth. From the author of The Original Sin.

About the Author, Marius Gabriel

Marius Gabriel is the author of over 30 novels, including The Original Sin, The Mask Of Time, House Of Many Rooms and The Seventh Moon, which are being published as eBooks by Who Dares Wins Publishing. He currently lives in South Africa.

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Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

Beginning as a thriller, this new novel by the author of The Original Sin eventually descends into schlocky romance. Kate Kelly, a 40-ish beauty who runs a hotel in Vail, Colo., has become obsessed with the search for her father, an American soldier supposedly shot dead in 1959 after 14 years in Soviet prisons and labor camps. When a vicious attack leaves Kate comatose, her daughter, investigative reporter Anna, comes to Colorado. Her plane is met by mysterious, handsome and wildly wealthy Philip Westward, who met Kate in the course of his own quest for a vanished father, also imprisoned behind the Iron Curtain at the close of WW II. Anna finds the source of her mother's obsession--her grandmother's wartime diary revealing Kate's father's identity--and is herself brutally attacked. She and Philip set out to solve the mystery, but may pay for their knowledge with their lives. Gabriel creates some telling characterizations of minor players (such as the assassin Truck) and a few affecting scenes--most notably the diary flashbacks, which combine a sweet depiction of first love with realistic evocations of fascist Italy's horror--but the romance between Anna and Philip degenerates at the end into melodrama and such saccharine sentiments as ``How much she loved him! How he had suffered!'' (Mar.)