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REPRISAL

by Mitchell Smith

From the author of novels the New Times Book Review hails for their "chilling
terror" comes a haunting story of past sins and present-day retribution ...

Professor, wife, and mother, Joanna Reed is a survivor. She hones her body
exploring the deep, jagged caves beneath the earth, and hones her mind writing
the poetry for which she is acclaimed. But on Asconsett Island, the peaceful
Massachusetts coastal town where she and her family spend their summers, her
world is suddenly, brutally ripped from its moorings.

Her husband, an accomplished sailor, drowns in a bizarre boating mishap, his
body found without the life jacket he always wore. Then her father burns to
death in a terrible blaze. Both apparent accidents, both shattering Joanna's
life and forcing her into a duel with grief and an outside world that refuses
to believe there is a more malevolent design behind the two deaths.

Now Joanna has just been rocked by the cruelest, most incomprehensible tragedy
of all. In her rage and desperation, she lets someone into her life. Charis is
young, beautiful, confident--and seemingly untouched by violence. She offers
companionship, understanding, and a loving friendship that slowly brings
Joanna back from the abyss. But it is no accident that Charis has come now ...

Imbued with a striking and powerful narrative voice, Reprisal is a harrowing
tale of loss, madness, and a vengeance that won't end until it obliterates
everything in its path ...

One life at a time.

Mitchell Smith is the author of five previous novels, Sacrifice, Karma, Stone
City, Daydreams, and Due North. He attended Columbia College and served with
Army Intelligence in Berlin before embarking on his writing career. He lives
in the Pacific Northwest.

Published by: the Penguin Group, New York, New York.

Copyright Mitchell Smith, 1999

Also by Mitchell Smith

Sacrifice

Karma

Due North

Stone City