12 Drummers Drumming

by Diana Deverell

Book Overview

Fearing her lover has been killed in a dramatic airplane explosion, U.S. Foreign Service officer Casey Collins races to Europe to learn the truth, only to be implicated as a terrorist conspirator... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0380795949
• ISBN13: 9780380795949
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Avon Books
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.2" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

12 Drummers Drumming

For over a decade Casey Collins has sought out, confronted and apprehended terrorists. And when a New York-bound flight from England explodes shortly after takeoff, killing all on board, she fears Stefan Krajewski, a Polish operative for the Danish Defense Intelligence and her lover, went down with the plane. Casey immediately flies to England to investigate.Casey's motives are pure, but her actions quickly become suspect and she's forced underground to prevent capture by her own people. Working with people she neither knows nor trusts, she learns Stefan withheld information that would have influenced her objectivity over the years; secrets that now threaten to destroy her and those she loves. Betrayal...that fine line between love and hate. The cost of betrayal...the number of lives of innocent people lost to kill one operative.Not once, not twice, but three times she offers herself as bait to catch Reinhardt Kruger, the monster orchestrating the bombings. Not once, but twice she rendezvous with him and twice he has reduced the size of her little band of mercenaries in his wake to escape.Faced with death on foreign soil by the enemy or imprisonment back in the states by her employer, the US Government, Casey does what she does best. She meets her adversary head on and spits on those responsible for the violence surround her.Each page is filled with fast-paced suspense and you'll find yourself wondering what's going to happen next. As a former Foreign Service Officer in San Salvador and Poland, Deverell draws on her experience to give authenticity to the settings and nations of people who value human life so little, thereby giving her audience an excellent read.

Couldn't Put It Down

Diana Deverell has given us a new heroine, Casey Collins. Ms. Deverell's experience as a US Foreign Service officer makes this book a must read. I picked it up and couldn't put it down. The twists and turns in the plot kept me guessint right to the end. I am going out tomorrow to buy her second book.

Effective spy thriller with more humanity than most.

12 Drummers is engaging, exciting stuff, recalling the thrills and chills of LeCarre and Deighton. But here, the dusty old men's club is aired out, and human connections have real substance. (So does the food!) A great read for a winter evening.

A Good debut thriller

American Foreign Service Officer Casey Collins is stunned to learn that a cross-oceanic airliner exploded in air from what apparently was a Lockerbie-like bombing incident. Casey fears that her lover, Polish double agent Stefan Krajewski, who works for the Danes, died on the ill-fated flight. Desperate to know the truth about her beloved, Casey quickly flies to Denmark to determine whether Stefan still lives. Her inquiries come to the attention of Danish and American officials. Eventually, she finds Stefan, but he has a beautiful blond attached to his arm. Before she can decide what this means, Casey finds herself running for her life as she has become the prime suspect in the Lockerbie Two bombing. With no one else to trust, Casey has an uphill battle to prove that she had nothing to do with the fatal airplane explosion. 12 DRUMMERS DRUMMING is an exciting thriller that is hurt by the common error of debuting authors, who try to develop too many different story lines in one book. Instead none of the sub-plots fully get developed and none of them take charge of the story line. Still, Diana Deverell clearly has talent as her first published novel remaisn an action-packed, non-stop international thriller that will please fans of the sub-genre.Harriet Klausner