The Betrayers

By Junius Podrug and Harold Robbins

Book Overview

Luz had nightheat, the sensuous quality in a woman that makes men ache with desire. Nick loved and lusted for her the first time he saw her. But what he didn't know was that Luz had secrets---that beneath the glamour and sex appeal was a woman determined to turn her back on wealth and challenge a corrupt political system. Even if dong so meant her life. Nick started out dirt poor---as a child, he survived the war-torn frozen hell of the siege of Leningrad and saw his mother starve to death as fat-cat bureaucrats ate well. He learned early that there were the haves and have-nots in this world. He was going to get everything rich people had---and more. From a brutal Soviet orphanage to a plantation in the steamy jungles of the Caribbean, from sultry, violent Havana to the dangerous streets of Santo Domingo, Nick battled men who controlled and exploited the wealth of nations. With bootleg vodka and exotic rum, he built a business empire that would one day bring him into conflict with the most brutal dictator in the Caribbean---and a struggle for the love and life of the only woman he ever truly loved.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 076530810X
• ISBN13: 9780765308108
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Forge
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

throwback

this book is something of a throwback to early Robbins - this makes it better. Read it, you wont be disappointed.

Keeps you reading up all night.

I started reading this book two days ago and am half way through it. I was hooked from page 1. It has heaps of relevant history (I am a history buff and loved revisiting what I had learnt in high school about Russia's 900 day seige). Junius Podrug bring's this Harold Robbins novel alive with his smooth, fast-paced narration. It also gave me tremendous insight into the Carribean, which I have a fascination for,as well as the exotic Havana, Cuba. A brilliant, masterpiece.

Harold Robbins Lives On

The Betrayers, a symphony, a story so smooth; and Junius Podrug keeps Robbins legacy very much alive. Nick is the love child of a british and russian communist visionaries, who move to Russia for hopes of building a better society. The communist system kills nicks father and his mother starves to death in the deadly siege of Leningrad, Russia, by Nazi Germany. Nick grows up in a brutal Russian Orphanage, where he learns more about life then in any school. He becomes a delivery boy for the gang leader who illegally produces and sells cheaply made vodka at his farm. Nick gets caught by the NKVD (the soviet secret service) for illegal activities. He is in jail, about to hear a death sentence when he is thrown a lifeline by a British lawyer. The lawyer was sent by Nicks grandfather, who was english. He passed away, but had never seen his grandson, and his last wish was to get nick out of the Soviet union and be sent to his remaining family: Nicks father's step sister and her husband in the British Hondurus. His half Aunt is a kind woman who loves her abusive husband Jack. Despite quarrells among Jack and Nick they managed to stay together, untill Nick buys another farm in the area and starts manufacturing vodka and rum. This is the start of his career. His quest for making money through liquor takes him from Hondurus, to Cuba, to Dominican republic. His business takes him to Santo Domingo, where he meets luz, a woman with dark secrets. He ends up battling dictators with their armies for this woman who he falls in love dearly.