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"A Chance Meeting of Two Women Leading to Some Viscerally Horrible Events."
Reviewed by Norman Goldman
Courtesy Bookpleasures
Posted November 20, 2003

The opening scene of Hilary Hawke's first novel, The Payback, is set in the Newark Airport terminal where Margot notices a young pathetic woman sitting on a worn plaid suitcase and clutching a baby. As the story unfolds, we learn that the woman's name is Claudia Lopez and she Read more...

"Exhilarating novel"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted November 20, 2003

Having just arrived from Bolivia, teenager Claudia Lopez accompanied by their baby Juliana waits in the Newark Airport for her husband Antonio to pick her up. Antonio had come to the states several months earlier. Margot Fortune assisted Claudia when she first landed at the airport. Having flown Read more...