a bridge across the ocean
reviews
as he races to find the perpetrators of
an attack launched in a school before
the entire United States ends up
“ A BRIDGE ACROSS THE OCEAN
HISTORICAL FICTION
AT ITS VERY BEST!
AVAILABLE NOW
During World War II, the luxury ocean
liner Queen Mary was commandeered for
transporting troops, and in 1946 it
became the vessel
carrying European
war brides across the
ocean to their
American G. I.
husbands in the U.S.
Among those brides
are Annaliese Kurtz
and Simone
Robinson. One is a
Susan Meissner
German ballerina
traveling under an
assumed identity, and one is the daughter
and sister of French Résistance fighters.
Each seeks to leave the horrors of the war
years behind and start a new life.
Today, Brette Caslake is a young woman
struggling with the effects of having “the
Sight,” an inherited ability to see and
communicate with the ghosts of people
caught between this world and the next. It’s
a gift she prefers to downplay and ignore but
cannot always control. When prevailed upon
by an old friend to help his young daughter
cope with the recent death of her mother,
Brette visits the Queen Mary, now docked in
Los Angeles as a floating hotel and tourist
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besieged
kept me reading when I
should have be doing other
things––like sleeping. ”
attraction. The ocean liner has a history of
ghost sightings, and the child felt her
mother’s presence there. But when Brette
visits, the presence she feels is
that of another who connects
with her and wants her to
solve the decades-old death of
a war bride while traveling on
the Queen Mary in 1946.
This fascinating tale kept
me reading when I should
have been doing other
things––like sleeping. The
fate of each character became important to
me. The very intense stories of Annaliese
and Simone during World War II were
vividly portrayed, providing a level of
depth and understanding that made the
conclusion completely believable. Brette’s
fears and concerns and how they are
resolved send a strong message about our
need to do something meaningful with
what life gives us rather than striving to
control that which we cannot.
~Rosemary Fifield, TopShelf Reviews
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hostage to the whims of whack jobs.
The set-up is pure gold and only
platinum follows from there as
Mahegan traces a serpentine path to
the truth that winds through his own
past as well.
Military types are no stranger to
the page. But the likes of Anthony
Tata are now lending readers not only their
expertise but also their mastery as
storytellers. Besieged serves up pitch-perfect
plotting sharply seasoned by actual
experience, propelling Tata to a literary
station that matches his military rank.
PITCH-PERFECT
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Speaking of putting his military experience
to good use, retired Brigadier General
Anthony Tata goes where few thriller
writers dare to go
in the bracing
Besieged, imagining
a series of terrorist
attacks against so-
called soft targets.
This stunner of a
tale pits series hero
Jake Mahegan,
formerly of Delta
Force, against
enemies from both
A .J. Tata
abroad and at home
~Jon Land, TopShelf Reviews
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