Author: Colin Holmes
Genre: Mystery/Suspense
Arc: Audiobook
Publisher: CamCat Publishing
Published: February 15, 2022
My Rating: 3 stars
Synopsis:
When an Army Air Force Major vanishes from his Top Secret job at the Fort Worth airbase in the summer of 1947, down on his luck former Ranger Jefferson Sharp is hired to find him, because the Major owes a sizable gambling debt to a local mobster. The search takes Sharp from the hideaway poker rooms of Fort Worth's Thunder Road to the barren ranch lands of New Mexico, to secret facilities under construction in the Nevada desert.
Lethal operatives and opaque bureaucracy stand in his way but when he finds an otherworldly clue and learns President Truman is creating a new Central Intelligence Agency and splitting the Air Force from the Army, Sharp begins to connect the dots. And those dots draw a straight line to a conspiracy aiming to cover up a secret that is out of this world? literally so.
My Thoughts
I thought I would really enjoy this book since it is a mystery and suspense. But that was not the case. It was very slow and the whole scify aspect of it to me just didn't fit into the whole story line. I really couldn't enjoy the book. The author did a great job one the story and plot, but this just wasn't for me.
About the Author:
Before the pandemic, I worked in a beige cubical as a mid-level marketing and advertising guy for an international electronics firm. A recovering advertising creative director, I spent far too long at ad agencies and freelancing as a hired gun in the war for capitalism.
As an adman, I wrote newspaper ads (remember those?), TV commercials, radio spots, trade journal articles and tweets. My ads have sold cowboy boots and cheeseburgers, 72-ounce steaks, and hazardous waste site clean-up services. And I’ve encountered fascinating characters at every turn.
Now, I write novels, short stories, and screenplays in an effort to stay out of the way and not drive his far too patient wife completely crazy. I’m an honors graduate of the UCLA Writers Program, a former board member of the DFW Writers Workshop, and serve on the steering committee of the DFW Writers Conference.
I was the original writer on the film Edge of the World which made the festival rounds in 2019 and I detail that story on my website at byColinHolmes dot com.
I’m a fan of baseball, barbeque, fine automobiles, and unpretentious scotch.
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