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New York Times Bestselling Author
THE UNSUNG HERO
Troubleshooters Series, Book # 1
Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0-345-46339-0
Original release date: June 2000
Reissue release date: June 2003
392 Pages
With her dynamic novels in the Tall, Dark & Dangerous series, bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann has proven herself a master storyteller. Her rare gift for blending intense adventure with sensuous romance has captivated readers, who especially relish her vivid portrayals of the dashing men of the U.S. Navy SEALs. Now, in THE UNSUNG HERO, Brockmann has created her most unforgettable book yet -- a poignant story of a love that will reveal hidden truths and bring two solitary people together...against all odds.
After a near-fatal head injury, U.S. Navy SEAL Lieutenant Tom Paoletti catches a terrifying glimpse of an international terrorist in his New England hometown. When he calls for help, the Navy dismisses the danger as injury-induced imaginings. In a desperate last-ditch effort to prevent disaster, Tom creates his own makeshift counterterrorist team, assembling his most loyal officers, two elderly veterans of the Second World War, a couple of misfit teenagers, and Dr. Kelly Ashton -- the sweet "girl next door" who has grown into a remarkable woman. Once known as the town’s infamous bad boy, Tom has always longed for Kelly. Now he has one final chance for happiness, one last chance to win her heart, and one desperate chance to save the day....
Troubleshooters Series, Book # 1
Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0-345-46339-0
Original release date: June 2000
Reissue release date: June 2003
392 Pages
With her dynamic novels in the Tall, Dark & Dangerous series, bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann has proven herself a master storyteller. Her rare gift for blending intense adventure with sensuous romance has captivated readers, who especially relish her vivid portrayals of the dashing men of the U.S. Navy SEALs. Now, in THE UNSUNG HERO, Brockmann has created her most unforgettable book yet -- a poignant story of a love that will reveal hidden truths and bring two solitary people together...against all odds.
After a near-fatal head injury, U.S. Navy SEAL Lieutenant Tom Paoletti catches a terrifying glimpse of an international terrorist in his New England hometown. When he calls for help, the Navy dismisses the danger as injury-induced imaginings. In a desperate last-ditch effort to prevent disaster, Tom creates his own makeshift counterterrorist team, assembling his most loyal officers, two elderly veterans of the Second World War, a couple of misfit teenagers, and Dr. Kelly Ashton -- the sweet "girl next door" who has grown into a remarkable woman. Once known as the town’s infamous bad boy, Tom has always longed for Kelly. Now he has one final chance for happiness, one last chance to win her heart, and one desperate chance to save the day....
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"Four plot lines are expertly interwoven to create a love story-cum-thriller in the latest work by veteran
romance author Brockmann (Bodyguard), winner of two Romantic Times Career Achievement Awards
and a two-time RITA finalist. Navy SEAL Lt. Tom Paoletti, on medical leave after a near-fatal head
injury, returns to his New England hometown and is drawn into an unresolved relationship with the girl he
left behind. Kelly Ashton, now a pediatrician, is caring for her dying father when Tom returns to disrupt --
and enrich -- her life. Then Tom glimpses a terrorist he once pursued who's supposed to be dead, but his
antagonistic superiors attribute the unlikely sighting to his head injury. Brockmann keeps the tension high,
while also revealing the heartbreaking wartime secret shared by Kelly's father and Tom's beloved uncle.
Another subplot involving Tom's niece also plays nicely into the dramatic finale as Tom and a makeshift
team must take on terrorist bombers unaided. With its shift in focus from romance to the action subplot,
this novel would make a terrific movie." Publishers Weekly
"Suzanne Brockmann has been a consistently excellent storyteller since she first arrived on the fiction scene. However, in THE UNSUNG HERO she takes a quantum leap forward with a novel that is richly textured, tenderly touching and utterly exciting. This is one book you will be unable to put down or forget!" 4 and 1/2 Star Gold Medal and Top Pick -- Jill M. Smith, Romantic Times Magazine
"Suzanne Brockmann has been a consistently excellent storyteller since she first arrived on the fiction scene. However, in THE UNSUNG HERO she takes a quantum leap forward with a novel that is richly textured, tenderly touching and utterly exciting. This is one book you will be unable to put down or forget!" 4 and 1/2 Star Gold Medal and Top Pick -- Jill M. Smith, Romantic Times Magazine
HERO: Lt. Tom Paoletti, U.S. Navy SEAL Commander
HEROINE: Dr. Kelly Ashton, pediatrician
LOCATION: Baldwin’s Bridge, Massachusetts
Voted # 1 on the Romance Writers of America's Top Ten List of Favorite Books of the Year 2000
The working title for THE UNSUNG HERO’s was THE HERO OF BALDWIN’S BRIDGE.
Tom Paoletti's last name is pronounced "Puh-letti."
David Sullivan's dream is to draw and write his own comic books. Before writing THE UNSUNG HERO, I sat down with my friend Scott, who gave me a crash course in the world of comics and graphic novels.
I've received email from some real life Paolettis, who were excited at the idea of the hero in a romance novel having their last name!
Note From Suz: I've been fascinated by World War II since before I can remember. I was born in 1960, only fifteen years after the end of the war, but when I was a kid it seemed like ancient history. And yet I was aware of the fact that many of the men and women around me had not only lived through that tumultuous time, but had played an important part in it. My grandmother's cousin, Elise, had worked for the U.S. Navy, as a supervisor in an ammunitions testing facility. The town photographer -- who was a little strange and who lived by himself in a ramshackle house near Bishop's Orchards -- had actually survived the Death March in Bataan. My uncles, Fred and Jack, both served in France, and actually ran into each other in Paris, purely by luck!
At age eleven and twelve, I read the entire section of the stacks in the library devoted to the history of the Second World War. I read "The Great Escape." I read "The Man Who Never Was." I read about the war in the Pacific, about the terrors of the German death camps, about the Blitzkrieg in Europe. I read about vast battles -- the ongoing battle for the skies between the Luftwaffe and the Royal Air Force that became known as the Battle of Britain, the enormous naval engagement of the Battle of Midway. Pearl Harbor, Anzio, Iwo Jima, Dunkirk, Denmark, Normandy, Ardennes -- I read of the military strategies, the defeats, the victories. And I also read of the millions of small acts of heroism, the intimate and remarkable stories of the ordinary men and woman who lived and breathed and fought in those places, whether they wanted to or not, men and women who made a difference and enabled the Allies to defeat Hitler and the Axis.
And I'm still in awe.
Many people who lived through the War came home and didn't say a single word about it. All those acts of heroism and bravery were often whittled down to a single, unremarkable sentence: "You did what you had to do."
Two of my characters in THE UNSUNG HERO were young men during that time -- two young American men, Charles Ashton and Joe Paoletti, who found themselves in Nazi occupied France in 1944, during the weeks immediately following the "D-Day" Invasion of Normandy. Their story, told in flashbacks, is an important subplot in my book. When THE UNSUNG HERO takes place, in August, 2000, both of those men are elderly, but they play a vital part in the contemporary action, too, even though both still aren't talking about the ordeal they lived through more than fifty-five years earlier.
THE UNSUNG HERO will be out in June, 2000 -- just in time for the RWA National Conference in Washington, D.C. I'll keep you posted via email newsletter as to the arrival date for Advance Review Copies!
HEROINE: Dr. Kelly Ashton, pediatrician
LOCATION: Baldwin’s Bridge, Massachusetts
Voted # 1 on the Romance Writers of America's Top Ten List of Favorite Books of the Year 2000
The working title for THE UNSUNG HERO’s was THE HERO OF BALDWIN’S BRIDGE.
Tom Paoletti's last name is pronounced "Puh-letti."
David Sullivan's dream is to draw and write his own comic books. Before writing THE UNSUNG HERO, I sat down with my friend Scott, who gave me a crash course in the world of comics and graphic novels.
I've received email from some real life Paolettis, who were excited at the idea of the hero in a romance novel having their last name!
Note From Suz: I've been fascinated by World War II since before I can remember. I was born in 1960, only fifteen years after the end of the war, but when I was a kid it seemed like ancient history. And yet I was aware of the fact that many of the men and women around me had not only lived through that tumultuous time, but had played an important part in it. My grandmother's cousin, Elise, had worked for the U.S. Navy, as a supervisor in an ammunitions testing facility. The town photographer -- who was a little strange and who lived by himself in a ramshackle house near Bishop's Orchards -- had actually survived the Death March in Bataan. My uncles, Fred and Jack, both served in France, and actually ran into each other in Paris, purely by luck!
At age eleven and twelve, I read the entire section of the stacks in the library devoted to the history of the Second World War. I read "The Great Escape." I read "The Man Who Never Was." I read about the war in the Pacific, about the terrors of the German death camps, about the Blitzkrieg in Europe. I read about vast battles -- the ongoing battle for the skies between the Luftwaffe and the Royal Air Force that became known as the Battle of Britain, the enormous naval engagement of the Battle of Midway. Pearl Harbor, Anzio, Iwo Jima, Dunkirk, Denmark, Normandy, Ardennes -- I read of the military strategies, the defeats, the victories. And I also read of the millions of small acts of heroism, the intimate and remarkable stories of the ordinary men and woman who lived and breathed and fought in those places, whether they wanted to or not, men and women who made a difference and enabled the Allies to defeat Hitler and the Axis.
And I'm still in awe.
Many people who lived through the War came home and didn't say a single word about it. All those acts of heroism and bravery were often whittled down to a single, unremarkable sentence: "You did what you had to do."
Two of my characters in THE UNSUNG HERO were young men during that time -- two young American men, Charles Ashton and Joe Paoletti, who found themselves in Nazi occupied France in 1944, during the weeks immediately following the "D-Day" Invasion of Normandy. Their story, told in flashbacks, is an important subplot in my book. When THE UNSUNG HERO takes place, in August, 2000, both of those men are elderly, but they play a vital part in the contemporary action, too, even though both still aren't talking about the ordeal they lived through more than fifty-five years earlier.
THE UNSUNG HERO will be out in June, 2000 -- just in time for the RWA National Conference in Washington, D.C. I'll keep you posted via email newsletter as to the arrival date for Advance Review Copies!