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RED DECEPTION News!

Monday, September 13th, 2021

Red Deception Reviewed by Midwest Book Review

Synopsis: When terrorists bomb bridges across the country and threaten the Hoover Dam, the vulnerability of America’s infrastructure becomes a matter of national security. But Dan Reilly, a former Army intelligence officer, predicted the attacks in a secret State Department report written years earlier — a virtual blueprint for disaster, somehow leaked and now in the hands of foreign operatives.

With Washington distracted by domestic crises, Russian President Nicolai Gorshkov sends troops to the borders of Ukraine and Latvia, ready to reclaim what he feels is Russia’s rightful territory. Tensions in Europe threaten to boil over as a besieged American president balances multiple crises that threaten to upend the geopolitical order. With the US at the mercy of an egomaniacal leader, and reporters and covert agents on his tail, Reilly may be the one man who can connect the dots before an even bigger catastrophe unfolds.

Critique: The second volume in the second book in authors Gary Grossman and Ed Fuller’s the Red Hotel series, “Red Deception” is another deftly crafted suspense thriller/action adventure novel from first page to last — and unreservedly recommended for community library Mystery/Suspense/Espionage/Terrorism fiction collections. It should be noted for personal reading lists that “Red Deception” is also readily available in a digital book format (Kindle, $9.49).

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A SMALL EARNEST QUESTION News!

Friday, January 22nd, 2021

The Midwest Book Review reviews J.F. Riordan’s A Small Earnest Question

Synopsis: It’s spring on Washington Island. Despite her concerns about Roger’s desire to bartend, Elisabeth is eager to plan a grand opening for their newly remodeled hotel, but she quickly realizes that she may also need to make accommodations for Roger’s proposed goat yoga classes. Bored and lonely, Oliver Robert joins bartender Eddie in forming a great books club at Nelsen’s, and Emily Martin, determined to make her mark on the community, forms a new Committee of the Concerned. When Emily decides that the Island needs a literary festival, complete with a famous author, she imprudently seeks out a notorious celebrity, hoping, as always, to enhance her own prestige. Real estate agent Marcie Landmeier confides that an unknown someone is buying up the Island’s shoreline, newly-appointed Fire Chief Jim Freeberg contends with a string of suspicious fires, and Pali and Ben have a spiritual encounter that will change them both. Meanwhile, drawn once more into local controversy, and awash in suspicion herself, Fiona Campbell must determine the answers to questions that will affect her future, and the future of the entire Island. 

Critique: Set on a remote island in the Great Lakes, “A Small Earnest Question” is Book Four in the outstanding North of the Tension Line series from novelist J. F. Riordan. A deftly crafted and engagingly entertaining story from beginning to end, “A Small Earnest Question” will be an immediate and enduringly popular addition to community library Contemporary American Literary Fiction collections. It should be noted for the personal reading lists of dedicated Riordan fans that “A Small Earnest Question” is also readily available in a digital book format (Kindle, $12.99).

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THE ADVENTURES OF BUBBA JONES #4 News!

Thursday, September 17th, 2020

Midwest Book Review: Environmental Shelf

Tommy “Bubba Jones” and his sister, Jenny “Hug-a-Bug,” uncover amazing facts about the Grand Canyon while on a mission to solve a park mystery. This is no ordinary brother and sister duo; they are part of a legendary time travel family with a mission to preserve and protect our national parks and have developed a reputation for solving mysteries. As they time travel back hundreds, thousands, and millions of years, they not only learn about the past, but also experience it. They encounter all sorts wild creatures and plants, meet the people involved in the establishment of the national park, learn about the Native Americans that call this land home, and unravel some of the park’s secrets.

The fourth book of this award-winning national park series by author/storyteller Jeff Alt, “The Adventures of Bubba Jones: Grand Canyon National Park” is an inherently fun and impressively informative read and one that is especially and unreservedly recommended for family, elementary school, middle school, and community library collections for young readers ages 8-12. It should be noted for personal reading lists that “The Adventures of Bubba Jones: Grand Canyon National Park” is also readily available in a digital book format (Kindle, $4.99).

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THE ADVENTURES OF BUBBA JONES #4 News!

Thursday, July 23rd, 2020

The Adventures of Bubba Jones #4 Featured in Midwest Book Review

The fourth book in this great award-winning National Park series brings yet more of the excitement, adventure, and history we’ve come to enjoy. Time travel, secret codes, passwords, and discoveries are unraveled first hand by Bubba Jones and his sister Hug-a-Bug. Traveling through time, they experience the wonders, dangers, and people that forged the world as we know it today. Truly a great story that will teach with enthusiasm. Sure to hold interest with its easy conversational tone. It draws and engages the reader. (Ages 9-12)

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RED HOTEL News!

Wednesday, June 26th, 2019

Midwest Book Review: Wisconsin Bookwatch, A Review

Synopsis: When a bomb rips the facade off the Kensington Hotel in Tokyo, dozens are killed and injured while one man walks calmly away from the wreckage, a coy smile playing on his lips.

Former Army intelligence officer Dan Reilly, now an international hotel executive with high level access to the CIA, makes it his mission to track him down. He begins a jet-setting search for answers as the clock ticks down to a climactic event that threatens NATO and the very security of member nations.

Reilly begins mining old contacts and resources in an effort to delve deeper into the motive behind these attacks, and fast. Through his connections he learns that the Tokyo bomber is not acting alone. But the organization behind the perpetrator is not who they expect.

Facilitated by the official government from a fearsome global superpower, the implications and reasons for these attacks are well beyond anything Reilly or his sources in the CIA and State Department could have imagined, and point not to random acts of terror, but calculated acts of war. RED Hotel is an incredibly timely globe-trotting thriller that’s fiction on the edge of reality.

Critique: In an inherently riveting plot that could well be ripped from tomorrow’s newspaper headlines, “RED Hotel” showcases the effective collaboration between co-authors Gary Grossman and Ed Fuller.

While especially and unreservedly recommended for community library Contemporary General Fiction collections, it should be noted for personal reading lists that “RED Hotel” is also available in a digital book format (Kindle, $11.49) and as a complete and unabridged audio book (Brilliance Audio, 9781978691605, $14.99, CD)

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