Book Ends Meet: Season of Betrayal: "As Margaret Lowrie Robertson makes her transition from CNN international correspondent to novelist in Season of Betrayal, we can be sure of one thing: She paid attention to that piece of advice.
Consider the plight of Robertson's lead character, Lara McCauley. It is 1983 in Beirut. Ravaged by civil war, this chaotically dangerous region has witnessed enough violence and sadness to shock even veteran correspondents. Lara has come to Beirut to join her husband, Mac, a globe-trotting journalist and danger junkie—one of the 'good old boys' among his colleagues at the hotel bar. But as a husband, he's boorish and downright cruel—a man not shy about humiliating Lara in public or getting abusive with her in private."