 JOSS:
THE AMBASSADOR'S WIFE
Reader's
Remarks
"Joss, the Ambassador's Wife"
would make a hell of a feature film! Frederick Hunter
puts it all together with spellbinding craft: Passion, action,
murder, sex, and revenge in an exotic African setting--all
wrapped up in a twisting plot you haven't seen before. And
meet a woman that is every man's fantasy--and who every
woman secretly wants to be. --Robert E. Swanson,
former Writer/Producer on "Murder, She Wrote."
"Joss, The Ambassador's Wife" is
Frederick Hunter at his best! Hunter creates a wildly
beautiful woman, sexually uninhibited, desirable but unattainable--and
wraps her in a fascinating murder mystery. A page turner
set in a small backwater African country, it's the story
of an American writer/correspondent ostensibly reporting
on a series of "leopard-man" murders. But he's
really hoping to reconnect with Joss, the illusive passionate
love of his life, now married to the American Ambassador.
When he finds her again, he realizes that something terrible
has happened. - R.W.K.
"Because the author spent many years
in Africa, the scent of the countries about which he writes
is both authentic and palpable. Hunter has woven some
essentially African elements into the western culture which
has intruded into Central Africa and the result is a true
first world-third world mixup. The story blends western
and African values in such a way as to completely capture
the reader. Hunter keeps the mystery churning and the answer
remains under wraps until the last few pages, yet he allows
the reader just enough clues to provide challenge and wonder.
It is a great read even for someone who has never experienced
Africa, but for people who have been there, the scenes and
situations will transport the reader across the oceans."
- T.H.
Great story, great characters, great dialogue,
great subplots-what else is there? Plus the obvious
knowledge of Africa is apparent throughout. Write what we
know about-right? The character development is fantastic.
I was prepared not to like Maggie (she is, after all the
'other woman' Tom lives with -- I identified with Joss early
on)-but she became so darned likeable. Loved her-very cool
lady. - S.C.
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About
the book: Tom
Craig, an American journalist based in South Africa,
journeys to the small country of Malawi, ostensibly
to cover a string of murders purportedly committed
by a leopard. In fact, he wants to reconnect with
the newly appointed American ambassador's wife, Jocelyn
(Joss) Hazen. He had a passionate affair with her
eight years before and has never quite gotten over
it. He has not bothered to mention this fact to Maggie,
a free-lance pilot with whom he lives in Johannesburg.
What's
so special about Joss? Here's how Tom describes
her: "If Jocelyn is consummately beautiful,
she is also consummately perverse, the most difficult,
the most damnably vexing woman I have ever met.
But she gets away with it."
So Tom goes questing in Malawi. But it will not
be easy to be alone with Joss in a place where an
American ambassador's wife is a celebrity. Especially
when, having suffered an accident, she's in a fragile
state. When they meet, Tom realizes she doesn't
recognize him. But hold on! Is she really Joss?
Or an impostor who resembles her?
Tom has to know. And if she's an impostor, what
happened to Joss?
About
the author
Fred
Hunter first encountered Africa as a US Information
Service officer in the Congo, opening an American
Cultural Center in the Equateur, its remotest region,
then fleeing when rebellion engulfed the country.
Later he served as The Christian Science Monitor's
Nairobi-based Africa Correspondent, covering sub-Saharan
Africa. Those experiences led to his story collection
Africa, Africa!
PBS
produced Fred's drama The Hemingway Play.
For that network he also wrote Lincoln and the
War Within about the Fort Sumter crisis. That
project led to his recent novel Abe and Molly:
The Lincoln Courtship, www.AbeAndMolly.com.
Fred blogs at www.TravelsinAfrica.com.
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