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Amie: CUT FOR LIFE (Amie in Africa Book 4) Kindle Edition

by Lucinda E Clarke (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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They told Amie it was a simple look, listen and report back mission, but from the beginning everything went wrong. She is stalked across borders, the aid workers act suspiciously, she’s assaulted, and abandoned in a rural African hut miles from anywhere. What has happened to her partner Simon and can she trust the charismatic Frenchman who befriends her? The discovery of an ancient tribal tradition and a group of young children to rescue, test her skills to the limit. For the first time, she is prepared to kill to protect the innocent caught up in an international sex trade with an extra horrifying twist.
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About the Author

Lucinda E Clarke has been a professional writer for over 30 years, scripting for both radio and television. She's had numerous articles published in several national magazines, written mayoral speeches and advertisements. She currently writes a monthly column in a local publication in Spain. She once had her own newspaper column, until the newspaper closed down, but says this was not her fault! Three of her books have been bestsellers in genre on Amazon on both sides of the Atlantic, she has won over 20 awards for scripting, directing, concept and producing, and had two educational text books published. Sadly these did not make her the fortune she dreamed of to allow her to live in luxury. Lucinda has also worked on radio - on one occasion with a bayonet at her throat - appeared on television and met and interviewed some of the world's top leaders. She set up and ran her own video production company, producing a variety of programmes, from advertisements to corporate and drama documentaries on a vast range of subjects. In total she has lived in eight different countries, run the 'worst riding school in the world', and cleaned toilets to bring in the money. When she handled her own divorce, Lucinda made legal history in South Africa. Now, pretending to be retired, she gives occasional talks and lectures to special interest groups and finds retirement the most exhausting time of her life so far; but says there is still so much to see and do, she is worried she won't have time to fit it all in.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07545M9DB
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Umhlanga Press; 1st edition (September 30, 2017)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 30, 2017
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3070 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
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  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
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Lucinda E Clarke was born in Dublin but has lived in 8 other countries to date. She wanted to write but was railroaded into teaching. She fell into other careers; radio announcer, riding school owner, sewing giant teddy bears. She began scriptwriting professionally in 1986 winning over 20 awards. She also wrote mayoral speeches, company reports, drama documentaries, educational programmes, adverts, news inserts, court presentations, videos for National Geographic, cookery programmes and street theatre to name but a few!

She lectured in scriptwriting, had her own column in various publications, and wrote articles for national magazines. She was commissioned for two educational books by Heinemann and Macmillan, and book reports for UNESCO and UNICEF.

She set up and ran her own video production company in South Africa.

"Walking Over Eggshells" was her first self-published book, an autobiography describing the emotional abuse she suffered from early childhood and subsequent travels and adventures.

She published her second book a novel, "Amie: African Adventure" in July 2014, which was a #1 bestseller in genre on both sides of the Atlantic.

Lucinda's third book "Truth, Lies, and Propaganda", was followed by "More Truth, Lies and Propaganda" - memoirs about her career in the print and broadcast media, highlighting South Africa and its people.

"Amie Savage Safari" is the 5th in the Amie in Africa award-winning series - the world's most reluctant and incompetent spy is in trouble again.

In 2019 Lucinda changed genre and published the first in a series of psychological thrillers. “A Year in the life of Leah Brand” was followed by “A Year in the Life of Andrea Coe.” Book 3 is due out in September 2020.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable
Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2017
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Amie: CUT FOR LIFE by Lucinda E. Clarke starts off without pause with Amy in a quandary as to whether to reveal to her family that she is alive. They are still grieving the ostensible loss of their daughter at the hands of terrorists. Just when she decides to let fate take over, it does. There is no slack in the intensity of the read from the first page forward. The writing is crisp and engaging. In their hotel room Amy begins to try to explain to her parents what happened to her. This moves the story time line back two weeks and reintroduces her love interest, Simon, and the operative who sends her coded messages, Maddy. Then there is the blue-eyed stranger who is following her and thinks his job is easy despite the fact she’s a spy, and her four cohorts who lend to some interesting interchange. There’s a lot of great detail that propels the storyline, like the book she uses for codes messages falls on her foot and she’s annoyed it’s so darn big to carry around. That causes her to send a message that she wants to change the book to Orwell’s Animal Farm, a much shorter read. Things like that bring the scenes to life and made for a fun read. The story continues to move back and forth in time, from the present with her parents to her time on “mission” with Simon. The intrigue heightens as she sets out but what happens to Simon? She has hurdles and barriers at every twist and turn: a baby hit by the car her friends are driving, a traumatic injury and being locked up and left to near starvation until rescued by children, who have escaped from the unthinkable.
And who is the new Frenchman she encounters? And why does everything keep going wrong for Amy? Who is sabotaging her? No spoilers here but suffice it to say this story moves with speed and is rich in scenic content and conflict amidst the landscape of Africa with its customs and intrigue. I love how this author brings us into this foreign land as she propels the story onward. I read and loved the Amy stories before this one and loved this as well. It did not disappoint and was well scripted as a really great stand-alone read. Can’t wait for more.
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Maeve Sleibhin
4.0 out of 5 stars A compelling awareness piece for an important issue with good ambiance — book 4 in a series.
Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2018
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Amie, housewife turned spy, is cut off from any support or communication with her handlers and the outside world when she is sent on a mission in South Central Africa. After she survives attempted murder at the hands of human traffickers she rescues a group of very young girls and learns that the traffickers mutilate children’s genitals in an attempt to make them more desirable under the illegal and horrible, but all too common practice of female genital mutilation (FGM). Without any support, she must try to save the children and bring this group of unscrupulous criminals to justice, but the odds are against her, and she does not know who she can trust. This book is part of a series, and I read it without having read the previous instalments. It suffers as a consequence, and I must recommend that it not be taken as a stand alone, as a lot of material is related to prior books in the series. The book has a great deal of ambiance, both charming and saddening, depicting South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe and a fictional country that is a collage of these, at their best and worst. More importantly, this book brings attention to the horrifying practice of female circumcision. It is for this reason that it is worth reading. As a thriller, it struggles a bit, largely because the author needs to artificially separate the main character from the support she evidently built up in prior books in order to isolate her sufficiently in order to make the plot thrilling. The plot also suffers a bit from baggage from previous instalments, and because of some plotting decisions in the first quarter of the book. But the core story and the ambiance are compelling enough to make me glad to have read it in spite of these shortcomings.
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Anne Francis Scott
5.0 out of 5 stars Heart-Stopping Suspense
Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2019
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From the start this story kept me turning the page. Amie, drawn into service as a British spy through circumstances beyond her control, wades into treacherous territory when sent on a mission to Africa. Cut off from any support, she is forced to rely solely on her training and instincts to survive. She doubts her own abilities, is unsure of who to trust, but the horrific circumstances she encounters prey on her conscience. In the end, her courage and strength of character rule when she risks her life time and again to rescue the young girls imprisoned by human traffickers and marked for female genital mutilation.

The author has a wonderful talent for painting a vision of place and time. Reading through the pages of this book, I could clearly see the African countryside, could imagine the wide gap which exists between the ultra-rich and the despair of poverty.

Amie: CUT FOR LIFE is an edge-of-your-seat adventure filled with intrigue. The many suspenseful layers of this story guarantee to keep you reading late into the night.
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Patrick
5.0 out of 5 stars Superb
Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2017
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Lucinda E Clarke had me hooked with the first Amie book that I read and I was delighted to see the development of not just the character but the style and skill of the writer. The author writes about place like no one else I know and can drop you right into a scene with ease. I loved this book. It is non stop and holds tension throughout. I could feel it as I read through the pages and that is a rare thing. The Aimie books stand out for me in a way as they slightly defy genre in my eyes. This could be seen as a thriller but it is more than that and even incorporates a sensitive subject into the plot without it feeling like it was just a device for the story. Honestly I can safely say it was one of my favourite books this year. Fab read as always from Lucinda E Clarke.
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Lesley Hayes
5.0 out of 5 stars Fast-moving, deeply affecting, unmissable!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 23, 2017
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I reviewed Amie, An African Adventure, several years ago, and felt regret at leaving Amie at the point in her life she had by then valiantly struggled to reach, mingled with relief that there would be further adventures. This is the first of the subsequent books I have found time to review, and I feel compelled to share my immediate response to it. The story kept me enthralled for a week, as I sank deeper and deeper into Amie’s world. It’s a tribute to Lucinda E Clarke’s skilful writing that I was so engaged, as I never stay with a book unless I’m truly captivated by the plot, the characters and the dialogue. This book lived vividly for me – the richness of the African landscape and the people, the building tension of the storyline, the deeply affecting subject matter, and Amie herself… I became increasingly aware of the evolution of her character since the first book about her adventures. I found myself drawn to Amie in a deeper way in this book, as once again she demonstrated all the qualities that make a well-rounded and utterly believable and loveable woman: strong and fearless and determined to follow through and do the right thing, while also vulnerable and capable of making misguided errors of judgement when beguiled by false friends. Although there is a specific focus on the vile practice of FGM, Lucinda E Clarke has cleverly brought to the reader’s attention the stark reality of the various atrocities visited on innocent children through ignorance and exploitation born of greed. She has achieved this by invoking empathy in her reader, and a first-hand insight into the clumsy desperation and unwise choices that can lead to betrayal and a futile and barbaric wastage of lives. I came away from this book feeling wiser, and deeply touched by Amie’s journey which had taken me to places I never expected to go. I’m grateful to the author, and greatly admire her work, which I unreservedly recommend to other readers.
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NZ Stones fan
5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful African Story
Reviewed in Australia on October 2, 2018
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My wife loved the Amie series and recommends all the books in the series.
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D Black
4.0 out of 5 stars African adventure written by someone who knows the place
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 8, 2017
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I haven't read the other "Amie" books but this one stood by itself. A good adventure which tackles some important issues, such as the barbaric genital maiming of young girls. Amie herself is not a particularly captivating heroine and I found her somewhat lacking in development but the story kept me interested and was clearly written by someone who knows Africa. I gave it 4 stars because I felt rather frustrated by the way the kidnapped girls were sent back to their families (who had sold them in the first place) and Amie had no strong reaction to that.
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Rebecca H
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing fast paced thriller!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 22, 2018
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I must say that I’m a huge fan of Amie the spy who doesn’t think she’s any good at it. This time Amie is faced with a terrible dilemma when she spies her parents in a shopping mall in Johannesburg. Should she compromise her position by letting them know she’s still very much alive? Of course she convinces herself that she must. However that decision has implications for future events.
Her next mission is to be apparently, a simple one. She is to join a group of aid workers on a fact finding mission. They are to visit various settlements and report to the British Government back on a number of issues. Very soon she makes a terrible discovery. Young girls are being sent to Africa to undergo FGM. But what else is happening to them? Our intrepid heroine also discovers that some of her fellow aid workers are not all they appear to be. She has to rescue some of these children and lead them to safety putting herself in mortal danger. I love the way the character of Amie has developed and become someone we really care about. She’s totally believable as she questions herself and makes mistakes. Amy is tested to the limit but eventually succeeds with her mission.
It’s a fast paced thriller and the tension never lets up from start to finish. As well as that there are some wonderful descriptive passages which help readers visualise certain areas of Africa. Just superb writing! The author tackles the subject of FGM and child trafficking and opens reader’s eyes to these horrific practices that are sadly all top prevalent even today. I can only pray that eventually this mutilation of young women and girls will be stopped. It’s to the author’s credit that she chose to highlight this abhorrent practice. I can’t wait to see what Amy gets up to next.
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Bookaholic
5.0 out of 5 stars I have loved this series. I absolutely and utterly recommend it.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 10, 2018
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Amie has never had it easy. She has lost too many loved ones, and her family back in Britain believe she is dead. It is for the best. Her job demands it. But what was supposed to be a simple mission takes a very sinister turn.

What kind of parent would send their daughters to Africa for them to suffer the cruel practice of FGM? But if that were not enough, Amie discovers that these children were never destined to go home. The more she discovers, the more horrified she is. She must get these children away from their abusers, but she doesn't know who to trust anymore.

Amie: CUT FOR LIFE by Lucinda E. Clarke is book #4 in the Amie series. I had very high hopes for this book, as the other three books have been superb. I was not disappointed. Ms Clarke has a gift for creating believable characters in a vibrant and realistic setting.

I was a little worried about reading this book because of its topic. But I am glad I did. Ms Clarke handles the topic of FGM with great delicacy, but also with realism. I was unaware how prevalent this barbaric practice is in the UK. Thank you for enlightening me, Ms Clarke, may you do so for others and bring an end to this abuse once and for all.

The story itself, like all the Amie stories, is incredibly fast-paced. There are so many twists and turns. Amie doesn't know who to trust and as a reader, nor did I.

I have loved this series. I absolutely and utterly recommend it.
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