Raelynn Hillhouse - Rift Zone (2004)
If any readers think the Cold War thriller is dead, they haven't read Rift Zone by new author Raelynn Hillhouse. It's memorable and compelling.
Hillhouse's main character is a smuggler who makes her living transporting contraband back and forth between the two halves of a divided Berlin. Much to her dismay, she discovers her activities have not gone unnoticed. The CIA and KGB are both well aware of her covert operations. Even worse, the Stasi, the much-feared East German secret police, is on to her.
Faith is forced by the East Germans to smuggle a mysterious package into the Soviet Union, at considerable risk both to her life and to relations between the two often uneasy allies.
Hillhouse has done a superior job of capturing the tense mood of the time and uses it to good effect as a backdrop for an exciting and suspenseful story. For a debut author in particular, Rift Zone is a polished and confident novel. Her career is off to a promising start.
Posted by David J. Montgomery in Book Reviews | Permalink
Comments
David,
I did a review of The Rift Zone on Collected Miscellany and agree with your take. We hope to do an author interview in the next few weeks.
Posted by: David Thayer | Jan 28, 2005 2:22:35 AM
