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Exact Revenge

by Tim Green



      Raymond White had everything going for him: a top job with Parsons and Trout, a beautiful girl friend, money and a potential candidacy for a high government office. Roger Williamson, a dying congressman, asks him to deliver a letter to his mistress, Celeste Oliver. The day after he delivers the letter Celeste is found murdered. Jealous rivals for his future government job and for his girl friend frame him for the murder. Unable to prove his innocence, he is convicted for the murder he didn't commit.

He spends the next 20 years in various maximum security prisons in the state of New York. He is subjected to brutality and periods of solitary confinement. His latest prison, Aubury Prison, is the worst in the system. Here he is befriended by art thief, Lester Cole, who has been plotting an escape for years. Outside the prison Cole has a hidden cache of unimaginable wealth. He had stolen one of the trainloads of the Nazi plunder of art treasures, jewels and gold. Together they perfect their escape route. During their escape Cole is killed in the turbulent waters of the escape river.

White survives; retrieves the hidden cache; reappears with a new face and name. With this he has the power to make every one of his enemies pay: the District Attorney, now a judge, Dean Villay, Bob Rangle, his political rival and chairman of the Democratic Party, Frank Steffans, policeman who has married White's girl friend. His revenge is swift and satisfying.

The plot is a modern version of Dumas' Count of Monte Cristo. The action is fast. The story is full of suspense with the reader held captive by White's machinations of his revenge. The scene of the escape from the prison by Cole and White is a breathtaking one. One feels the rough and tumble of the river and their struggle to survive.

Highly recommended for an engrossing story of betrayal, revenge and redemption.

The Book

Warner Books
May 2005
Hardcover
0446531456
Suspense
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The Reviewer

Barbara Buhrer
Reviewed 2005
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