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Night of the Condor

by Sara Craven

Published 1988288 pagesISBN 978-0-2631-1973-2

**Love led her down a different path** Leigh Frazier, impatient at the separation imposed by her father, went to join her fiance. Getting to Peru was no problem. However, she discovered that getting to the archaeological dig in the high Andes, where he was stationed, was almost impossible. Her womanly wiles failed to persuade Rourke Martinez, a returning archaeologist, to help her, and she misguidedly set out on her own. When Rourke rescued her, he did help her - but not to find her fiance, rather to forget him in a new and dangerous embrace. For under the magical spell of the Andes, real love changed Leigh's life....

Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Romance, Fiction. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.

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Themes to notice

Romance · Fiction

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Reading experience

Balanced tone · Steady pace

A comfortable full-length choice for steady daily reading.

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Night of the CondorSara Craven
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A quick reading snapshot

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Reading lengthA standard-length read288 pages in this edition
Publication eraModernFirst published or edition dated 1988
Primary categoryRomanceAlso cataloged under Fiction
ISBN-13
978-0-2631-1973-2
Language
English
Edition record
OL10239137M
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Good to know

A comfortable full-length choice for steady daily reading.

Begin with its place in Romance, then notice where the book resists that label.

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Read for connection, not completion.

Mark one passage that sharpens the book's central concern and one that complicates it. That tension often reveals more than a quick summary.

Three questions to carry with you

  1. What must each character learn before the relationship can become believable?
  2. How do work, family, friendship, or identity shape the central relationship?
  3. Does the emotional resolution feel earned by the choices that came before it?

Editorial framework by Wesley Bryan, BookenDeX Founder and Editor.