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    I Was Waiting For You

    By Maxim Jakubowski

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    The new novel by Maxim Jakubowski, the "King of the Erotic Thriller" (The Times) A young Italian woman flees her home in Rome and gets involved with the wrong man in Paris Cornelia, the fearless stripper and killer for hire, who proved such a hit in previous novels, is back and on another mission to kill. As the two women's paths intersect, an English crime writer down on his luck is mistaken for a private eye and goes on a quest for a missing person. From New York to Paris, and then on a thrilling journey through Barcelona, Tangiers, Venice and then finally to a small medieval town outside Rome, the waltz with darkness of the three characters in search of love, lust and redemption becomes ever more poignant and mysterious Sexy, sad, breathless, a memorable tale of lost souls caught in a spider's web of their own making.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAccent Press
    Release dateNov 1, 2010
    ISBN9781682990872
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    I Was Waiting For You
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    Maxim Jakubowski

    Maxim Jakubowski is a noted anthology editor based in London, just a mile or so away from where he was born. With over 70 volumes to his credit, including Invisible Blood, the 13 annual volumes of The Mammoth Book of Best British Mysteries, and titles on Professor Moriarty, Jack the Ripper, Future Crime and Vintage whodunits. A publisher for over 20 years, he was also the co-owner of London's Murder One bookstore and the crime columnist for Time Out and then The Guardian for 22 years. Stories from his anthologies have won most of the awards in the field on numerous occasions. He is currently the Chair of the Crime Writers' Association and a Sunday Times bestselling novelist in another genre.

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    • 4/5
      This is a novel about three people who are unrooted, lost, and drifting. They are connected through a contract murder and an affection for sadomasochism. The fulcrum of the triangle is a young Italian woman who dabbled with older men and kinky sex before witnessing a murder and fleeing into a hippie-type life of wandering, free love, sleeping on the beach, etc. Another part of this triangle is a stripper who does contract kills in her spare time. Sensuous, bold, without fear, and seemingly without limitations. She heads back to Europe to get a line in the missing witness and ends up a prisoner of a sex game ringmaster. The third part of this trio is an older man who once had a kinky affair with the Italian girl and is commissioned to find her. The point of the story is not a mystery but the adventures these three have. Part thriller and part eroticism, the story develops these three characters well, fleshing out who they are. It is often quite an explicit and kinky tale not for the easily offended.