Foreword
Take the explosive combination of a voluptuous love-starved housewife and her young, hot-blooded, innocent sister and put them aboard a hi-jacked plane which is forced to land on a tropical island paradise where sensual passions already run at a fevered pitch, and you have the makings of a good book.
Add to these elements sexual blackmail and an unscrupulous man who does not hesitate to play wife against sister or both women against the unsuspecting husband, and you have one of the most exciting and graphic novels to come along this season.
The Hi-Jacked Sisters is a book about people?sheltered and secure in their beliefs and morals since their early childhood who are suddenly confronted with the dark realities of their own heated desires.
Another facet of this engrossing novel deals with the age-old question of whether any of us are masters of our own destinies. Fran and Bill Williams, together with the sensually attractive and still virginal 18 year-old Liz, smugly feel they have mapped out their lives?that only they can change their enviable situation. This naive assumption is destroyed with one chilling sentence announced by the pilot of their jet liner, "Ladies and gentlemen, we will not be landing at Miami as planned because our plane is being forcefully diverted to another site... "
The abrupt collapse of all their plans and, possibly, their future, leaves all three of them stunned and incapable of any coherent thought. In that respect they are typical examples of a great many Americans today?secure in the status quo, unable to realize that Fate's favorite target has always been the status quo.
Our talented author obviously agrees with the Roman dramatist?philosopher, Seneca, who wrote almost 2,000 years ago, "Fate leads the willing... and drags along those who hang back."
It is Fran, during the ensuing forty-eight hours of indecision, danger, and sexual humiliation, who gradually begins to grow in stature. Ironically, she sacrifices her self-respect and decency to protect her husband and her younger sister, only to discover they have betrayed her?individually and collectively.
Bryan Gilbert wrote this absorbing novel after making a penetrating study of people who undergo personality changes following hi-jacking or political kidnappings. The plot itself comes from the front pages of every newspaper in the world. And the characters in The Hi-jacked Sisters although typically American, are universal.
Because of the volatile nature of some of the more sexually graphic scenes and the explicit language employed in the true-to-life dialogue, the publishers feel they should advise the potential reader that this book is for mature adults who have a mature outlook on life.
-The Publishers