Leap into Darkness Part 1: Not my Best Birthday
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A young American and his girlfriend, on the run from vengeful mobsters and the numbershunting FBI, flee to St. Margaret's, an out of the way island in the Caribbean. Instead of refuge, however, they find a place fighting for its life against Communist guerrillas and themselves the target of the mysterious organization, Caribbean Horizons Ltd. The young man is immediately impressed into the island's pathetic Air Militia, coming under enemy fire his first night. His girlfriend shortly disappears and he finds himself inexorably drawn into the deadly disputes that infest the island.“Leap Into Darkness” is Part One of the “St. Margaret's Trilogy,” which together are the sequel to “DeVilliers County Blues”, currently featured as a seventeen part serial at Amazon Shorts. “The Flight Lieutenant's Court Martial” is Part Two of the Trilogy and “The Birth Of A [Small] Nation” is the third. An introduction to the island and its people is found in the independent two part Short “Armaggedon: 1973.” Together they tell a story of love and hate, war and intrigue, ambition and survival as they can only exist in a very small, isolated society caught up in the process of nationbuilding, a process in which the traditional and modern segments of an island's culture clash in “winner take all” conflict.
Title: Leap into Darkness Part 1: Not my Best Birthday
Sales Rank: 1595701 in Books
Author: John W. Cassell
Publisher: Amazon, 2007-05-17, Digital, 31 pages
- Atlantic City Boardwalk. Irish Monopoly. On the run adventure. Island sultry. Military Machinations.
- As I've read Cassell's novels, I've continued wondering why his clear descriptions of depression, intense difficulty, and pain provide good (enthralling) reading for me, whereas some of the classics or overdone genres of horror, adventure, etc., are just not my cup of tea; I'm never in the mood to be depressed, and usually I'm not drawn into pure adventure stories.… More reviews
- Fantastic
- John W. Cassell has done it again, as with all his stories. He is a master story teller from the word go. Never am I disappointed with his work. Never. Leap into Darkness Part I is an excellent read...brilliant. As always, he puts you, the reader, in the middle of the story, wondering what is going to happen next, and the tension builds, as it is always paced just right.… More reviews
- Excellent!
- First, let me say, this just isn't my normal kind of read. I'm a romance author--I read romance.
That said, let me just say "Wow!"
Mr. Cassell writes a tale that will engage the reader from the very first line.
The tension builds, the plot unfolds, and we learn the back story all without… More reviews
