Ashes to Ashes: Ashton Ford, Psychic Detective (Ashton Ford Se...

Meet Ashton Ford...Psychic Detective... Private Investigator Ashton Ford has special powers, powers that some call supernatural. A former naval intelligence officer, highly knowledgeable in cryptology and philosophy, Ford will shatter your ideas of reality and take you into a mystical world of vision, intuition, and psychic truth. A phenomenal psychic, unparalleled lover, and a true Renaissance man, Ashton Ford can see into the future and even into the distant past using his psychic powers to assist special clients who are in crisis. In this first book of Don Pendleton’s six book series, Ashes to Ashes, Ashton Ford is hired by a beautiful and vulnerable heiress in need of a sexual surrogate. Ignoring danger signals, Ford cannot resist the chance to aid the distressed woman, but soon finds he is faced with more than he bargained for. In his search for justice, he is plunged into a world of untold dangers, including murder and mayhem, ghosts and apparitions, and splintered reality.Don Pendleton wrote this about his Ashton Ford novels: "Through this character I attempt to understand more fully and to give better meaning to my perceptions of what is going on here on Planet Earth, and the greatest mystery of all the mysteries: the why of existence itself. Through Ford I use everything I can reach in the total knowledge of mankind to elaborate this mystery and to arm my characters for the quest. I try to entertain myself with their adventures, hoping that what entertains me may also entertain others–so these books, like life itself, are not all grim purpose and trembling truths. They are fun to write; for some they will be fun to read." “Ashton Ford is a spectacular character...” ~Booklist Other titles in the Ashton Ford, Psychic Detective Series: Eye to Eye; Mind to Mind; Life to Life; Heart to Heart; Time to Time. Don also wrote the Joe Copp Private Eye Series of six novels, and several nonfiction books, in addition to creating the original The Executioner: Mack Bolan Series of action adventure. Don Pendleton is known as the “father of the Action/Adventure genre.”

From Publishers Weekly

Pendleton, creator of the bestselling Executioner series, begins a new sequence with this novel featuring Ashton Ford, ex-spy, exNavy officer, with psychic powers. His first case concerns heiress Karen Highland: is she unhinged or is she being manipulated by the family's estate executor, Terry Kalinsky, and her psychiatrist, Carl Powell? After several deaths, Ford traces most of her problems to Powell's reckless use of hypnosis. Unfortunately, the first-person narrator is a cross between a hardboiled detective and Rod Serling: what is presented as self-deprecating is actually self-glorifying, and Ford tends to explain the obvious and lecture the reader. The few intriguing sparks are dampened by soggy exposition and theorizing. Major ad/promo. Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About the Author

Don Pendleton is the creator of the Executioner Series. Over 50 millions copies of Don Perndleton's books have been sold.

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