| Yilan: or the bullet-proof Madonna Contributor(s): Werner, Paul (Author) |
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ISBN: 3740747250 ISBN-13: 9783740747251 Publisher: Twentysix OUR PRICE: $31.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Action & Adventure |
| Physical Information: 0.83" H x 5" W x 8" (0.89 lbs) 372 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Whereas Yellow Dancer took Laura West to the Caribbean, Yilan makes her go East, to the Greek Aegean, where both she and her indomitable sister Solitaire follow the tracks of S leyman the Silent who kidnaped Laura s adopted son Ignace. It s a desperate race against time and a hallucinating dance around a much-coveted legendary icon of the Virgin Mary that proudly carries the scars of revolutionary turmoil both in fledgeling modern Greece and a chaotic Soviet Union in the making. As always, Laura, a staunch agnostic herself, is firmly wedged between all fronts, Orthodox and otherwise. Undaunted, the unlikely twin sisters accept the challenge of a showdown in a giant long-abandoned and half decrepit wooden orphanage. Situated on the largest of the Princes Islands in the Marmara Sea just beyond the pale of Istanbul, the solitary orphanage is said to be resounding with the laughter and cries of kids occasionally, on calm and quiet nights... |