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Guarded, emotionally scarred Nick Saylor has finally found contentment as a reputable private investigator and bodyguard, happily sharing a Hudson River barge-turned-homestead with his psychiatrist father-figure and his sidekick, an investigative genius. Their contented domesticity seems unshakable until a desperate ER doctor awakens Nick one night, claiming that a Saylor Security
business card is the only link his brutally assaulted, amnesiac patient has to her former life. Nick reluctantly rides to the rescue and begins the daunting task of identifying the woman, whose battered ballet dancer’s feet provide the only useful clue. Further complicating matters, the dancer’s attackers pursue them to Nick’s barge, and he has his hands full protecting her and his boatful of roommates. Nick simultaneously hunts and fights off the attackers as the action shifts from hospital to barge to multimillion-dollar mansion to fabulous NYC apartment to NYC expressway. At the same time, he’s fighting attraction to his client, who hauntingly resembles a lost love. An action-filled, exhilarating escape with thrills similar to those of Michael Koryta’s Lincoln Perry adventures. --Christine Tran
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- Series: A Nick Sayler Novel
- Paperback: 374 pages
- Publisher: Thomas & Mercer (March 5, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1612184405
- ISBN-13: 978-1612184401
- Product Dimensions: 1.1 x 5.2 x 8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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The title of this book "Bolero" is an indication of how the story mounts in suspense and what is at risk if the leading character, Nick Sayler, doesn't solve the crime. Just as Ravel's Bolero increases in tension as one moves through the composition so does this story.
It starts with Nick Sayler, a private detective, being called by a young intern at Bellevue Hospital. His business card has been found in the pocket of a young woman who has been dropped off at the Emergency Entrance. She had been found beaten and left to die in an alley in Manhattan. The card is the only clue to her identity as her wallet and all other documents are missing. The hospital policy is that, because of the lack of identification, the woman will be designated a "Jane Doe" and admitted to the psychiatric ward at the hospital. The doctor, using the only clue he has, has called Sayler and asked him to take her out of the building so that she won't be lost in the routine of the hospital. This is the beginning of a search for her identity and for the person or persons who tried to kill her.
As Sayler tries to find out who the woman is he learns that she is the third "dancer" who has been attacked in this way in the past few months. She is lucky as the taxi driver who found her on the street and dropped her at the hospital saved her life. Sayler figures out that she is a dancer by her physical characteristics, posture and bearing. There is also something very frail about her, and she is a woman men want to protect. Everyone she meets is impressed with how nice she is, and Sayler finds himself falling in love with her. This is not good for him as the death of the great love of his life ten years earlier has left him wounded and carrying a lot of emotions around with him.
Private Investigator Nick Saylor believes he has hardened his heart against the cruel vagaries of the world. Abandoned as a baby, he was raised by strict but caring nuns. Once a promising boxer, his dreams are shattered with his leg while on tour in the Middle East as a Marine. Having survived addiction and criminality, his most crushing blow comes after the brutal murder of his lover, an exquisitely beautiful socialite married to a cold and possesive corporate raider. The lover, Julia, shares with Nick an understanding of the ugliness of life. Having survived horrendous brutality herself, she retreats to the gilded cage provided by her controlling husband. Nick is accused of her murder. Eventually cleared, he is still reeling from the lost of his true love. Nick lives on a luxury barge with a technological savant, a gentle doctor, a dog and occasional visits from his lovely girlfriend. Nick believes he has steeled his heart until he becomes involved in the resuce of a beautiful amneisiac who bears a striking resemblance to his lost love. It appears that she was attacked and abandoned at a NYC hospital with no identification save his business card. As he sucumbs to the charm of the lovely dancer, he is determined to keep her safe. Unfortunately violence erupts, taking the lives of people involved in her rescue and challenging Nick and his resources. Two police detectives run interference and as the mystery woman's past is revealed Nick must confront killers as passionate about ending her life as Nick is about saving it.
This book features interesting and likeable characers. It is very readable although not terribly suspenseful. I identified the ne'er-do-wells as soon as they were introduced although their motives were spare and unbelievable.