Windmills of the Gods

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Windmills of the Gods
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First edition
Author Sidney Sheldon
Language English
Publisher William Morrow
Publication date
1987
Pages 384
ISBN 0-688-06570-8
OCLC 14273555
813/.54 19
LC Class PS3569.H3927 W5 1987
Preceded by If Tomorrow Comes
Followed by The Sands of Time

Windmills of the Gods is a 1987 thriller novel by American writer Sidney Sheldon.

Plot summary

Mary Ashley, a professor at Kansas State University, is offered an ambassadorship by Paul Ellison, the US president. She rejects the offer because her husband, Dr. Edward Ashley, does not want to leave his medical practice, and she is not willing to be separated from him. She also feels that it is harder to find a good doctor for a small Kansas town than an ambassador to a foreign country. When her husband suddenly dies in a suspicious traffic accident, Ashley accepts the President's offer in order to fill the void in her life. She is sent to Romania, behind the Iron Curtain, where she finds that everyone is conspiring against her. She's on the glinting edge of East-West confrontation, a beautiful and accomplished scholar who has suddenly become the new US ambassador to an Iron Curtain country, a woman who is about to dramatically change the course of world events – if she lives. For Mary Ashley has been marked for death by the world's most proficient and mysterious assassin, and plunged into a nightmare of espionage, kidnapping and terror.

TV version

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A TV miniseries, starring Jaclyn Smith, was released in 1988.[1]

References

Preceded by Sidney Sheldon Novels
1987
Succeeded by
The Sands of Time


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