cover image The Summertime Soldiers

The Summertime Soldiers

Susan Kelly, Susan Kelley. Walker & Company, $14.95 (201pp) ISBN 978-0-8027-5646-6

The violent resurfacing of a '60s radical group shakes the peaceful town of Cambridge, Mass., home of Harvard University. The People's Revolutionary Cadrea group notorious for its terrorist tacticsbegins to carry out its threat to kill one employee of the military/industrial complex for every million dollars America spends on defense. After three members of Boston's government think-tanks are shot, execution-style, writer/teacher Liz Connors and her lover, policeman Jack Lingemann, use their contacts in an effort to smoke out PRC's leader-in-hiding, Sarah Ohrmsbacher. But Sarah is a dangerous, possibly psychotic, adversary, and Liz's confrontation with her proves almost fatal. Kelly's (The Gemini Man subject is obviously close to her heart, but her ineffective glossing of a potentially riveting situation will leave the reader unsatisfied. (May 15)