NO COMMITMENTS opens on the sunny beaches of Nice where Clay Stoner, a young Navy pilot, meets Marianna, an American girl studying abroad. Although Stoner is an Annapolis graduate, his background is far from privileged, a stark contrast to Marianna who comes from a socially prominent family. The physical attraction is strong, and the two soon drift into an affair.
This is the era of Vietnam, and as the prospect of Stoner's first combat tour approaches, he is conflicted about dropping bombs on civilians - the collateral fallout of all wars - in this case a war in which he does not believe.
It is not long before the affair with Marianna crosses the line from casual sex to a deeper attraction. As Stoner's conflicts with the war grow, so do the emotional conflicts in his relationship with Marianna. Their love story is set among the lazy summer days and warm landscape tones of Southern France. As one reviewer noted, the action here is a bit slow, the sort of literary scenario in which a reader is sometimes tempted to skip pages to find out where the story is going. But the background is so beautifully described in disciplined prose, and the three dimensional characters so interesting, you won't want to put the book down.
When Stoner's conflicts about the war reach a breaking point, he attempts to turn in his wings and refuses to fly. He ends up court-martialed, dismissed from the Navy, and sentenced to a year of confinement. Before he can be transported to his place of confinement, he escapes, and manages to get out of the country, returning to Nice. Marianna joins him there.
What has been a long love story until now, morphs into a thriller, and the action picks up considerably. Stoner is eventually drawn into flying for Utopia International Enterprises. What he doesn't realize is that the firm is a front for international money laundering. The operation reaches into several high corridors of power within the U.S. government. Stoner once again finds himself on the horns of a moral dillema, but this time his choices will have far more deadly consequences.
Val Sharp's first novel is a flawless blend of two story lines (indeed, two genres) that converge seamlessly and mount to an action-filled climax.
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