"Full of suspense, action and adventure!"

I've been a fan of Vicki Hinze for a long time. Her books, to me, are guaranteed great reads full of suspense, adventure and action.

This book tells the story of U. S. Vice President Sybil Stone. Her code name is Lady Liberty and she's in Geneva, Switzerland negotiating peace talks when she gets an urgent phone call telling her that she has to get back to the United States with a brief case as soon as she possibly can. It is a matter of great urgency.

When Lady Liberty gets on the plane she makes all unnecessary personnel and the press get off. Then as they get underway, her bodyguard Jonathan Westford realizes that something is wrong when he hears the pilot request cream in his coffee. Since Westford knows the pilot and knows he drinks his coffee black, he knows that this is a signal. Westford grabs Sybil and jumps off the plane. He has no parachute but Sybil does. They land in the Everglades in Florida and only have so much time to get back to Washington, DC to avert disaster of epic proportions.

Will they make it in time and will they find out who the traitor is? Why is everybody trying to make out like Sybil is the 'bad guy"?

I highly recommend this book. This is practically a one sitting read. I know that once I started reading this one I very nearly didn't want to stop. I eagerly await each and every book that Vicki Hinze writes! I look forward to what adventure she will take us on next.

Reviewed by Kathy Boswell
Posted November 27, 2002

Vice President Sybil Stone has 72 hours to save millions of lives or die trying. Seventy-two hours to earn her code name, LADY LIBERTY.

Summary

The fate of a country lies in one woman's hands...

U.S. Vice President Sybil Stone, code-named Lady Liberty, has proven she can hold her own against some of the world's most influential power brokers. But now, negotiating a vital peace agreement in Geneva, Switzerland, Sybil receives an urgent message calling her back to American soil.

In seventy-two hours disaster will strike, catapulting the United States into a war that will cost millions of lives. Only Sybil Stone holds the key to stopping it. Yet between Sybil and success lies a minefield of intrigue, betrayal, twisted motives, and three merciless enemies. Her only hope of survival--and the world's--rests with Agent Jonathan Westford, a judiciously ruthless operative with one goal: in the face of overwhelming odds, to keep Lady Liberty alive.

Time is running out and trust is running thin. But Lady Liberty and Agent Westford know they must succeed--or the first-strike missile will launch...