After an introduction by the
author Dangerous Women and Desperate Men: Four Short Stories Of People On The
Brink opens with “Blood Red Rings.” Officer Frank Harper is running
solo this night and things have been quiet in the zone. That is good as he has
lot to think about at home and work. Then, as you knew it would, the night
erupts into violence.
The award winning “Lightning
Rider” comes next where Jessie Scout drives an armored vehicle. The crew of Gask
and Perez as well as her always have to be on alert because they are a tempting
target. They also have to listen to 22 year veteran Elmer Gask expound on his often
racist views of the world and their job as they make the rounds in Vegas with
the cash. He's a week away from retirement and plans to do so spotless. Always
good to have a plan.
It is off to California in
“Three Bullets to Queensland.” Ike Decker dreams of going to Queensland in
Australia and has the travel brochures. He also has a gun and a job to do
first. He is on the trail of one Paco Sanchez who may have gotten away with 1.2
million from an armored truck hit in Los Angeles. It’s time to nab Paco and get
paid.
A transcript is the focus of
the next short story titled “As Long As We Both Shall Live.” Elizabeth Dalton
is being questioned regarding Spenser Dalton and his apparent death. It is
believed he fell off in his fishing boat and presumably drowned. Having been
married 35 years to the Spenser the prosecutor has more than a few questions
for her about Spenser, the state of their marriage, and other issues.
The remaining half of the
book in the PDF form I received are excerpts from Six Seconds, Vengeance Road, The
Panic Zone and “In Desperation,” with author notes
and explanations of the background on same, an author bio, and author praise
quotations.
The stories of Dangerous
Women and Desperate Men: Four Short Stories Of People On The Brink were
all good ones filled with plenty of characters and multiple agendas. Action was
present in three of the four reads as the last one “As Long As We Both Shall
Live” is isolated to a court room and a court hearing. While plenty of action
is implied regarding previous events during the courtroom testimony it is the
only story where folks are not out and about doing things during present time. That
story was also my personal favorite of the four works. All four good stories
are also available at Amazon as solo stories if one would prefer to go that
route.
Dangerous Women and Desperate Men:
Four Short Stories Of People On The Brink
Rick
Mofina
Carrick
Publishing
September
2011
ASIN: B005DV9X5O
E-Book
69
pages
$2.99
PDF
version supplied by the author a very long time ago in exchange for my
objective review.
UPDATE---- Barry Ergang has alerted me to the fact that he also reviewed this book here on the blog back in October 2011. That means if I had caught that fact this review would have been part of our famed "double take" feature today. I didn't, so it isn't, but you should still go read Barry's review. If you don't, he will know and you won't like the response. Trust me on this.
Kevin
R. Tipple ©2014
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2 comments:
LOL. Yeah, I'm such a badass.
Must be....you have the dog obeying.
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