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August 28, 2008
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| The Ninth River by Hawk Kiefer | Reviewed by Wanda Maynard |  | Publisher: Xlibris
http://www.hawkkiefer.com
ISBN: 1413444059 (Trade Paperback), 1413444067 (Hardback)
Genre: Fiction
Subgenre: Action Adventure
Release date: May 2004
Format: Trade Paper, hard cover
Pages: 276
Price: $18.69 (trade paper), $28.79 (hardback) | The Ninth River starts out like a non-fiction book, with plenty of facts. The information used through-out the book is well researched, and follows good sentence structure.
As the story opens, there is plenty of action-packed, mind-moving pictures. Each chapter leads Beth (Captain Walker) deeper into a struggle for survival, like the rabbit in Alice In Wonderland, and leads the reader through page by gripping page, to see if she makes it through the long hard conflict.
While Beth and Matt are in the Middle East, in Saudi Arabia, to look into the nine major fresh water rivers, Beth is captured, put into prison, and is accused of being a spy.
Meanwhile, Matt, through the help of an accomplice, engineers their escape across the Jordan River; and then they are escorted to Tel-Aviv. Will Matt sacrifice his freedom and be there when Beth needs him in her means of escape? The story-line may take the reader into, or remind him/her of, the book or movie The Jewel Of The Nile, where there is one action-packed scene after another. In The Ninth River the heroine falls into difficult situations. The plot challenges one's imagination and makes the reader want to go on to the next page to see what is happening. Will Matt get Beth back? Will he have to break into the Arabs; line of defense and fight for her? Or will she have to dig her own way out and possibly get killed in the process? Or maybe get them both killed? | | |
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