Original Sin - Hardcover

Gabriel, Marius

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0553079298 ISBN 13: 9780553079296

Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group, 1992

Synopsis

Mercedes Eduard, a dignified survivor of war and poverty, must save her spoiled and willful California daughter from a kidnapper, who might teach them all an important lesson. 50,000 first printing.

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From the Inside Flap:

0; Buren lies chained to an iron bedstead in a homemade  cell. Her captor is a handsome tormented young  sculptor who lives alone in the Arizona desert. He  is honest, compassionate, and uninterested in  money. Why then has he kidnapped Eden and demanded  ten million dollars in ransom? And why does he seem  intnet on destroying Eden's mother? The answer  lies in half-century of dseire, brutality, and  betrayal--a dark skein of tangled lives and shameful  secrets that spans three generations and three  continents, from Franco's Spain to the cruel brulaity  of Veitnam, from the haut monde of Bevery Hills to  exotic Costa Brava to the basement of an isolated  house where Eden's captor seeks his ransom  revenge. For he is more than a kidnapper; he is an  avenging angel, and he represents the final piece in a  puzzle of lies and deception that

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0553079298
• ISBN 13: 9780553079296
• Binding: Hardcover