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And Then You Die
by Iris Johansen
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Bantam (1998-09-01)
ISBN: 0553579983
EAN: 9780553579987
Dewey Decimal #: 813.54
Binding/Media: Mass Market Paperback - 352 pages
Release Date: 1998-09-01
SKU: 4658
Condition: Very Good
Comments: Binding: Softcover. Condition: Very Good.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
She expected sunshine and balmy breezes. What she saw was everyone's worst nightmare.Bess Grady has heard the unmistakable sound before. She knows what it means. But not even the eerie lament of the howling dogs can prepare her for what has taken place in the small village. The seasoned photojournalist had been sent there on an easy assignment, and now she has stumbled upon something she was never meant to see. Amid chaos and fear, she joins forces with an intimidating stranger, a man whose alliances are unclear but whose methods have a way of leaving bodies in his wake. For what she has witnessed is only the first stage in a plan of terror that may kill us all. And she has no choice but to stop it--or die trying....
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Amazon.com Review
As a photojournalist, Bess Grady is far more comfortable viewing life through her camera lens than firsthand; the extra distance makes it easier to accept life's atrocities. Still recovering from an assignment on which she witnessed the massacre of an entire Croatian orphanage, Bess accepts an easy assignment from a travel magazine to photograph a small village in Mexico and brings her sister along for fun. What awaits her is worse than she ever could have imagined: everyone in the village has been killed by a deadly poison. After rescuing the only survivor, Bess and her sister split up. Bess finds herself captured by the villain who seems to have plotted the horrible destruction. Her sister has disappeared, and the only hope Bess has to save her is to trust a man she believes to be a murderer.
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Customer Reviews
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Grabbed me immediately
Rating  (5)
Date: 2010-06-18
This thriller grabbed me immediately and kept me on the run with Bess Grady, a photojournalist who comes upon a horrifying site in a Mexican village. Would she, her sister, and a man she must trust against her better judgment escape each new dangerous situation? This page turner pulls plot ideas from headline events and shows some frightening possibilities that could come to pass.
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Strong Heroine Makes for a Super Thriller
Rating (5)
Date: 2010-01-29
3 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
Photojournalist Bess Grady is recovering from her previous assignment in Croatia, where an entire village had been butchered by guerrillas. She had been hospitalized for weeks after Croatia and has just been released. She is traveling to Tenajo, Mexico, with her sister Emily for a travel shoot on supposedly a relaxing assignment, but when she arrives there, all the villagers are dead.
Her sister, a doctor, believes a contagious disease is responsible and they go from house to house searching for survivors. There is only one, an infant. Then, as Bess is shooting pictures of the bodies, army trucks arrive. Bess realizes the trucks have come too soon after whatever tragidy had befallen the village, and she sends her sister into the hills with the child, while she is captured.
It seems a biological weapon has been tested, morever it seems like Bess is immune as the weapon is a mutated strain of anthrax that kills within six hours of contact and she is still alive. Has she been lured to Mexico on purpose? Did the terrorists or her government know about her immunity?
Iris Johansen writes strong female characters and Bess Grady is as strong as they come. I suppose that's why I like her work so much. Also, the fact that she knows how to pull her readers into her stories right from the beginning doesn't hurt either. This is an excellent thriller with great characters
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A "little" unrealistic
Rating  (3)
Date: 2008-09-27
The book was a great read, no doubt about that, and it kept me interested from the very beginning to the end. Can't complain about lack of "twists and turns" either; so in general, the plot was very interesting. It's just the character of Bess Grady that started to annoy me more and more as I read through. If this story had place in real life, given the seriousness of the entire situation, it's hard to believe the CIA would give in to one woman, who - in additon - was necessary to be kept alive in order to solve the predicament. Who, in their right mind, would jeopardize the life of the only person alive who holds the key to the solution? Not to mention, the solution to a problem that threatened even the entire U.S. poputation in the event Esteban succeeded? It just does not make sense to me personally. The character of Bess Grady was way too stubborn and demanding, and in effect, the actions of the CIA were way too unrealistic if it were to be compared to a real life situation. In fact, she was so stubborn and demanding it made her character very little believable. Lastly, I have to give the author an additional star for the nice development of the romance between Bess and Kaldak. Starting out as two least likely characters to fall in love with each other, yet they overcome all their differences in a very nice transition from hate/fear to strong attraction and deep mutual understanding. Although ... it wasn't too hard to guess either that these two would eventually end up together - that's why they were put in that book ...
One last note. I think the more appropriate title for this book would be something like "On The Run" or "Chemical Warfare" ... or something of the sort, lol :o)
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Bess Is A Pain
Rating (3)
Date: 2008-04-29
I got tired of Bess in a hurry. She was so demanding and I guess
she thought she knew better than the pros. She was just a photographer
for heavens sakes.
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Crazy
Rating  (1)
Date: 2007-12-08
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
I have a problem with all Iris Johansen books. It's the same with this one. The story may create an interest, but the writing is so bad that at times I cringe. What is awful is that I will look at and buy another one of her books hoping that it will be worth reading.
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