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Ellie Marie is just a normal southern girl, minus the fact that shes a body guard and contract killer who lives with her crazy Aunt Betty who practices witchcraft and lives on the Louisiana Bayou. Ellie is still trying to find her place on the swamp through every late night clean up in New Orleans and through her rocky emotional state of unsteady relationships, male or female. So she does what she knows best as she paves the road...
A timely thriller about CIA dirty tricks! One that explores the most feared sentence in the English language: “hello I am from the U.S. government with democracy for you people”.
Diverting the Buddha is a timely thriller that describes how American elites treat emerging democracies as a form of social cancer. It is the Year of the Fire Horse, democracy is beleaguered, and only the Buddha can help a war weary people. This fast-paced adventure follows the struggles of four characters caught in a web of wartime intrigue. In the end, all four wander into harm’s way, during an all out explosion of murderous betrayal.
Diverting The Buddha is a driving, powerful, entertaining novel marking Bob Swartzel as a writer of considerable accomplishments. Midwest Book Review
A major theme of the novel is betrayal—of individuals, of the democratic aspirations of pro-democracy people, of Americans, and of betrayal of truth itself. Historian David Heiser