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Abigail Mangin

Abigail Mangin

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Dangerous Alliance

Dangerous Alliance

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<p>United Nations’ sanctions are crippling North Korea. China has turned her back on her malevolent partner. The North Korean military machine is crumbling, unable to function. Oil reserves are minimal and the government seeks new alliances.Cargo and tourist ships are disappearing along the Somali and Kenyan coastline at an alarming rate. Speeches abound, but inaction emboldens Al-Shabab to seek their next prize: Kenya. The terror organization controls land but requires weapons.Bedlam Bravo team leader Colonel Trevor Franklin (Ret.) leads the small international team into East Africa. Tempers flare as the team is embroiled in a political quagmire. The axis must be stopped to avert an international crisis but at what cost?Proudly published by Solstice Publishing</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>