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Deadly Harvest
Canadian vigilante, Laura Amour takes her crusade against child exportation to France to take on an international human trafficking organization. What she exposes goes far beyond anything she has ever expected to deal with. Against her is a powerful statesman with vast resources and one of the world's most active anti-terrorist police forces. She must partner up with a rogue anti-terrorist police officer and a teen prostitute or thousands might die.
Release date: November 16, 2019
Canadian vigilante, Laura Amour takes her crusade against child exportation to France to take on an international human trafficking organization. What she exposes goes far beyond anything she has ever expected to deal with. Against her is a powerful statesman with vast resources and one of the world's most active anti-terrorist police forces. She must partner up with a rogue anti-terrorist police officer and a teen prostitute or thousands might die.
Release date: November 16, 2019
Best Thriller Review of Mad Dog
Best Thriller Review
Over the moon at being compared to a legend!
The Bottom Line: An epic new take on serial killer fiction that is reminiscent of Stephen King’s best work.
Set two decades before helicopter parenting went mainstream, 14-year-old Daniel Dixon plays from dawn until dusk in a Canadian mining town. Then, someone starts slaughtering the town’s pet cats and birds. Daniel turns amateur sleuth and attempts to recruit his friends to help find the killer.
With the link between animal abuse and human serial killers long established, author David Wickenden has stumbled upon a solid gold premise and, thankfully, fulfilled its promise. As Stephen King did in Stand by Me (aka "The Body"), Wickenden writes of a bygone world where children roamed freely with their friends, learning both independence and about the terrors that lie in the shadows. But in Daniel’s case, those terrors have been pushed into the light of day by something abominable. The gruesome sight of a tortured cat on public display is a bolt out of the blue that thrusts Daniel and his friends into a heightened sense of awareness about evil walking among them.
In a telling scene that foreshadows the danger yet to come, Daniel’s firefighter father cuts his hair in their backyard. Hoping to raise a second-generation firefighter, he can’t help but push an allegory about why it’s important for people to call the fire department instead of trying to put out fires by themselves. He makes Daniel promise to call the police instead of pursuing the killer on his own. “Otherwise, you end up being a victim and then we have to rescue you.” From that point forward, we know that Daniel, his friends and even his dog Patches are in mortal danger. Thanks to Wickenden’s well-crafted plot, readers are in for a hugely satisfying payoff.
Over the moon at being compared to a legend!
The Bottom Line: An epic new take on serial killer fiction that is reminiscent of Stephen King’s best work.
Set two decades before helicopter parenting went mainstream, 14-year-old Daniel Dixon plays from dawn until dusk in a Canadian mining town. Then, someone starts slaughtering the town’s pet cats and birds. Daniel turns amateur sleuth and attempts to recruit his friends to help find the killer.
With the link between animal abuse and human serial killers long established, author David Wickenden has stumbled upon a solid gold premise and, thankfully, fulfilled its promise. As Stephen King did in Stand by Me (aka "The Body"), Wickenden writes of a bygone world where children roamed freely with their friends, learning both independence and about the terrors that lie in the shadows. But in Daniel’s case, those terrors have been pushed into the light of day by something abominable. The gruesome sight of a tortured cat on public display is a bolt out of the blue that thrusts Daniel and his friends into a heightened sense of awareness about evil walking among them.
In a telling scene that foreshadows the danger yet to come, Daniel’s firefighter father cuts his hair in their backyard. Hoping to raise a second-generation firefighter, he can’t help but push an allegory about why it’s important for people to call the fire department instead of trying to put out fires by themselves. He makes Daniel promise to call the police instead of pursuing the killer on his own. “Otherwise, you end up being a victim and then we have to rescue you.” From that point forward, we know that Daniel, his friends and even his dog Patches are in mortal danger. Thanks to Wickenden’s well-crafted plot, readers are in for a hugely satisfying payoff.
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Cover Reveal
Check out the cover on my latest thriller!
The print copy is available through Amazon, and the ebook will be available everywhere as of November 15, 2022.
Premise:
Cantankerous, old-fashioned, and stubborn as hell, Donald Wilson, was the first American soldier to enter Dachau, and has suffered with the horrors ever since. Now at ninety-five, he grapples with a recent pancreatic cancer diagnosis and believes there is nothing left to live for.
When neo-Nazis fire-bomb synagogues in his Pennsylvania hometown, he finds he has one last battle to fight. He only has months left to do this or the evil could rise again and plunge not only America, but the world back into the horrors of the Third Reich.
The print copy is available through Amazon, and the ebook will be available everywhere as of November 15, 2022.
Premise:
Cantankerous, old-fashioned, and stubborn as hell, Donald Wilson, was the first American soldier to enter Dachau, and has suffered with the horrors ever since. Now at ninety-five, he grapples with a recent pancreatic cancer diagnosis and believes there is nothing left to live for.
When neo-Nazis fire-bomb synagogues in his Pennsylvania hometown, he finds he has one last battle to fight. He only has months left to do this or the evil could rise again and plunge not only America, but the world back into the horrors of the Third Reich.
New Book
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The Origami Deception
My latest thriller features two reporters taking on an international group of saboteurs who are attacking a Canadian Mining company.
Lucas, a veteran journalist, sees a big story brewing within a strike at a local mining company when explosions rip through the plant, but he gets bumped by Jamie, a junior reporter. To keep his finger in the pie, he agrees to mentor the new journalist while following a second story about a sex-worker found half beaten to death.
As the attacks escalate, the two must work together to determine if this is a global threat or the first volley in an international trade war. As the clues of both stories add up, they realize that there is a common link, and they race for the full picture before more attacks take place. One thing is for certain, the mining company, the city, and the country are mere pawns, in a game that could kill thousands unless they can expose the truth and avoid getting caught in the crossfire.
The Origami Deception
My latest thriller features two reporters taking on an international group of saboteurs who are attacking a Canadian Mining company.
Lucas, a veteran journalist, sees a big story brewing within a strike at a local mining company when explosions rip through the plant, but he gets bumped by Jamie, a junior reporter. To keep his finger in the pie, he agrees to mentor the new journalist while following a second story about a sex-worker found half beaten to death.
As the attacks escalate, the two must work together to determine if this is a global threat or the first volley in an international trade war. As the clues of both stories add up, they realize that there is a common link, and they race for the full picture before more attacks take place. One thing is for certain, the mining company, the city, and the country are mere pawns, in a game that could kill thousands unless they can expose the truth and avoid getting caught in the crossfire.
Arcs available for review
Hi everyone.
I have a fast-paced thriller that sees two journalist investigate explosions at a mine site that has international implications. They also must determine how the beating of a prostitute plays into the bigger picture before the group attacks again. The company, the city and the reports are all mere pawns in this international game.
I have epub, pdf, and mobi available. Would like reviews on Goodreads, Amazon if possible and anywhere else you are able.
I have a fast-paced thriller that sees two journalist investigate explosions at a mine site that has international implications. They also must determine how the beating of a prostitute plays into the bigger picture before the group attacks again. The company, the city and the reports are all mere pawns in this international game.
I have epub, pdf, and mobi available. Would like reviews on Goodreads, Amazon if possible and anywhere else you are able.
The Origami Deception review
Reviewed by Lucinda E Clarke for Readers’ Favorite
The Origami Deception by David Wickenden is set in a mining area in Canada. The main characters are Lucas Kuchar and Jamie Coleman, journalists who work for the local newspaper. Initially, there is tension between them as their boss Felix takes the story of a strike at the local mine away from Lucas. He asks him to focus on the trouble between local prostitutes and their pimps. Jamie is to follow up on the strike on the mine. However, both stories are linked, and, working together, Lucas and Jamie uncover a much greater deception that has worldwide implications for the planet. Explosions at the mine caused havoc during a strike, destroying an area of the local town. Was it linked to a disaster in Mexico that obliterated a whole village and caused numerous deaths? Who is behind the sabotage and why? Lucas and Jamie are shocked by what they discover and what they can and cannot make public. The mining interests deal with the refining of heavy metals, toxic waste, and massive and lethal air pollution. The stakes are high. When news leaks out of a second planned attack, it’s a joint effort to protect life and the environment.
At first, I was confused by David Wickenden’s title, The Origami Deception, but the reason for this became clear toward the end and I realized how clever it was. I also loved learning about metal refineries. His descriptions of the disasters as they happened and the tower's collapse were so vivid that you were there amid the devastation. I warmed to all the characters, including poor Jaren from Mexico, who was used as a pawn by the saboteurs. The political aspect was plausible and may include aspects of the truth, but the facts about mining in third-world countries are hair-raising. Writing about the story is difficult as I don’t want to give away any spoilers, but this fast-paced thriller is a page-turner that so cleverly knits two, even three, unrelated stories together. I really enjoyed reading this book and recommend it highly. I shall look for more books by this author. A well-deserved five stars.
The Origami Deception by David Wickenden is set in a mining area in Canada. The main characters are Lucas Kuchar and Jamie Coleman, journalists who work for the local newspaper. Initially, there is tension between them as their boss Felix takes the story of a strike at the local mine away from Lucas. He asks him to focus on the trouble between local prostitutes and their pimps. Jamie is to follow up on the strike on the mine. However, both stories are linked, and, working together, Lucas and Jamie uncover a much greater deception that has worldwide implications for the planet. Explosions at the mine caused havoc during a strike, destroying an area of the local town. Was it linked to a disaster in Mexico that obliterated a whole village and caused numerous deaths? Who is behind the sabotage and why? Lucas and Jamie are shocked by what they discover and what they can and cannot make public. The mining interests deal with the refining of heavy metals, toxic waste, and massive and lethal air pollution. The stakes are high. When news leaks out of a second planned attack, it’s a joint effort to protect life and the environment.
At first, I was confused by David Wickenden’s title, The Origami Deception, but the reason for this became clear toward the end and I realized how clever it was. I also loved learning about metal refineries. His descriptions of the disasters as they happened and the tower's collapse were so vivid that you were there amid the devastation. I warmed to all the characters, including poor Jaren from Mexico, who was used as a pawn by the saboteurs. The political aspect was plausible and may include aspects of the truth, but the facts about mining in third-world countries are hair-raising. Writing about the story is difficult as I don’t want to give away any spoilers, but this fast-paced thriller is a page-turner that so cleverly knits two, even three, unrelated stories together. I really enjoyed reading this book and recommend it highly. I shall look for more books by this author. A well-deserved five stars.
