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Abigail Mangin

Abigail Mangin

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Commitment

Commitment

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<p>It’s hard to be committed to anyone when you don’t know whom to trust.</p><p>Alexis Toles, a former FBI agent turned undercover CIA agent, is quickly finding that out in Nancy Ann Healy’s newest political thriller, <i>Commitment</i>.</p><p>Alex embeds in a secret organization of intelligence operatives known as The Collaborative. Its partners include operatives from the CIA, National Security Agency, FBI, US Department of Defense, and an entanglement of foreign intelligence agencies.</p><p>It’s about half a year after the death of President John Merrow, a friend and someone she respected. But she remains committed to overthrowing The Collaborative as she works with a onetime adversary who believes the organization’s involved in the president’s death.</p><p>Meanwhile Alex; her wife, Cassidy O’Brien; and Cassidy’s son try hard to live as a family but must first overcome personal struggles, including a nasty custody battle with Cassidy’s ex-husband, Congressman Christopher O’Brien. The family has their own share of secrets that, if unleashed, could affect their hopes for the future.</p><p>There’s no place to turn without discovering people who are not who they claim to be. That can’t stop Alex. She must remain committed to the cause, both at home and as she works against The Collaborative.</p>

Story Behind The Book

Condom dresses and space helmets have debuted on fashion runways. A dead body becomes the trend when a coat made of human skin saunters down fashion’s biggest stage. The body is identified as Annabelle Leigh, the teenager who famously disappeared over a decade ago from her boyfriend’s New York City mansion. This new evidence casts suspicion back on the former boyfriend, Cecil LeClaire. Now a monk, he is forced to return to his dark and absurd childhood home to clear his name. He teams up with Ava Germaine, a renegade ex-model. And together, they investigate the depraved and lawless modeling industry behind Cecil’s family fortune. They find erotic canes, pet rats living in crystal castles, and dresses made of crushed butterfly wings. But Cecil finds more truth in the luxury goods than in the people themselves. Everyone he meets seems to be wearing a person-suit. Terrified of showing their true selves, the glitterati put on flamboyant public personas to make money and friends. Can Cecil find truth in a world built on lies? In high fashion modeling, selling bodies is organized crime.

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Kirkus Reviews

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Pacific Book Review

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Reviews

<p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:'baskerville-urw';font-size:17.25px;letter-spacing:.1725px;background-color:rgb(252,252,252);">&quot;A somber, disturbing mystery fused with a scathing look at the fashion industry. Mangin writes in a confident, razor-edged style.&quot; - <strong>Kirkus Reviews</strong>&quot;</p> <p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:'baskerville-urw';font-size:17.25px;letter-spacing:.1725px;background-color:rgb(252,252,252);">Beautifully packaged and true to its idealistic vision, Size Zero pierces the myths that perpetuate and protect an abusive, exploitative industry.&quot; - <strong>Foreword Reviews</strong></p> <p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:'baskerville-urw';font-size:17.25px;letter-spacing:.1725px;background-color:rgb(252,252,252);">&quot;A sharply perverse dark comedy set in the high fashion industry&quot; -<strong> IndieReader</strong></p> <p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:'baskerville-urw';font-size:17.25px;letter-spacing:.1725px;background-color:rgb(252,252,252);">&quot;Size Zero is that kind of book that gets you off a reader's block moment.&quot; - <strong>Pacific Book Review (starred review)</strong></p> <p style="margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:'baskerville-urw';font-size:17.25px;letter-spacing:.1725px;background-color:rgb(252,252,252);">“Size Zero is visceral and disturbing. The narrative exposes the dark underbelly of modeling, focusing on unethical practices, charlatans, mental and physical illnesses, and the abuse that young women face as they pursue celebrity. Elements of the novel are splashy and outré, distorting stereotypes of glitterati and their carefully guarded world.” <strong>- Foreword Reviews</strong></p>