From Booklist:
Two old women friends collide in this cloak-and-dagger set in London, Hong Kong, and Hanoi. Cassie Stewart is an investor; her friend Eva Cunningham poses as one. After years in the Far East, Eva has returned to Britain, peddling a tale about a diamond mine in Vietnam. Unbeknownst to ambitiously greedy Cassie, Eva could care less about the ice: she's a British agent assigned by her controller to lure a third investor, Robie Frazer, into the mining venture. Controller Stormont wants to force Frazer, a murky moneyman with connections to Chinese criminals, to spy on Chinese nuclear proliferation, but Eva's private agenda is to kill Frazer for having once turned her into a junkie. And so Davies, in her second financial espionage tale (the first was Nest of Vipers ), must balance the three strands of intrigue--Cassie's greed, Eva's vengeance, Stormont's realpolitik--butd rather quickly forgets all except Eva. The other two hang around to the end, trailing in Eva's wake as she seduces Frazer in pursuit of her vendetta. A bit simple for devotees of international intrigue (the nuclear angle could have been better developed), but Davies makes Eva into a beautiful siren of spying, recommendation enough. Gilbert Taylor
From Library Journal:
Davies (Nest of Vipers, LJ 1/95) delivers another thriller that combines the world of finance with espionage. Eva Cunningham spent four years in Southeast Asia as a deep-cover narcotics agent, only to become a heroin addict. Her target was Robie Frazer, a drug and gun lord whom she never actually met but swears vengeance upon. Eva, having completed her rehab, waits for the call from her superiors in the British intelligence community. Eventually, she finds herself in a complex scheme involving a diamond mine. Enter Cassie Stewart, Eva's friend, who is a venture capitalist. Cassie is sent to lure Frazer into a diamond venture proposed by Eva. Eva's problems begin when an associate of Frazer's recognizes her from her heroin days. Davies takes the reader into the backrooms of venture capitalists and the world of diamonds, and her latest novel should be as successful as Nest of Vipers. Recommended for public libraries.
-?Stacie Browne Chandler, Whitman P.L., Mass.
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