Shockwave

by Norm Applegate

Thriller writer Norm Applegate, author of Into the Basement, introduces us to a new character, Jack Dwyer. Shockwave. Loner Jack Dwyer. Pretty woman Kelly Paul. Homegrown terrorists use pipe bombs to kill. The cause? They want America back. Violence breeds violence. Never underestimate a loner! Book Jack Dwyer is observant. Sitting at Starbucks he watches a van come to a stop. A nervous guy gets out, looks around, seems strange. Dwyer watches him. The guy crosses the street. Dwyer realizes the guy’s staring at a pretty woman, Kelly Paul. Dwyer makes eye contact with her. Dwyer looks left, right, reacts, moves fast, pushes her down, saves her but the bomb explodes. People are killed. She goes missing and Dwyer is the suspect. Dwyer can’t forget her. Doesn’t understand why she’s missing. He’s a loner, ex-military, a psychologist and he has seen death. He’s wildly attracted to the pretty woman and he goes after her. Beau Redell, and a group of sadistic followers, is the problem. Kelly Paul has been taken, abducted, terrorized. But Dwyer finds himself alone and a violent conclusion is inevitable… Shockwave by Norm Applegate Pipe Bomb. Hostage. Terror. Edited by Deborah Levinson. Shockwave is approximately 79,000 words long. This book also contains bonus Chapter 1 of Into the Basement Norm Applegate. “Into the Basement introduces us to Norm Applegate's no nonsense staccato writing style and realistic approach to the thriller/suspense/genre.” - Withersin Magazine June issue 2008, withersine.com "Norm Applegate is a new voice just emerging onto the field of the mystery/thriller novel that has the rest of us looking over our shoulders." - David Hagberg New York Times & USA Today bestselling author of Dance With the Dragon, Allah's Scorpion and Mutiny. "Norman Applegate’s writing truly delivers with all the raw force and prose of a top rate storyteller, seasoning his tales with a mixture of classic genre skill and infusion of intrigue and characterization that makes the stories move." - Nicholas Grabowsky Horror author of "Halloween IV. “Applegate creates a very graphic and violent story filled with blood, gore, and sex.” – The Book Faery Reviews Books by Norm First to Die – Just $2.99! Blood Bar - Just .99! Into the Spell – Just .99! Jumpers (short story) - Just .99! …and thriller novel Into the Basement – Just $1.99 #1 in Kindle Store >Comics & Graphic Novels > Graphic Novels > Since March 2011

294 pages, Paperback

First published September 19, 2011

About the author

I live in Sarasota, and I write thrillers, horror and paranormal novels.
I’m also a Mac Fanatic. Smooth Jazz enthusiast. Drummer. Former hypnotist and Horror Movie Fan.

My first novel, Into the Basement is about abduction, torture and murder. I also wrote Blood Bar, which is about vampires and a different kind of club. Into the Spell, is a hypnosis paranormal thriller, you know, the dark side of the occult.

First To Die, a vampire adventure not for vegetarians. It's a bit more violent and juicy than my other books, but there is a sliver of breathing room. Expect a lot of violence, knives, pain, carve in, carve out. My Kim Bennett is a bent woman.

My latest novel is a thriller, Shockwave. Fast staccato writing style with plenty of action to go around. I introduce a new character, Jack Dwyer. In 2012, I continued with another thriller, The Prisoner.



Bibliography:

Novels
* (2012) The Prisoner
* (2011) Shockwave
• (2011) First to Die
* (2011) Jumpers, short story
* (2011) Sadist (Turkish release of Into the Basement)
• (2009) Blood Bar, a vampire tale
• (2007) Into the Spell
• (2006) Into the Basement

Anthologies:
• (2008) From the Shadows (short story, Jumper)

Screenplays:
• (2010) Grotto
• (2009) Into the Basement (co-writer Nicholas Grabowsky)

Norm’s writing began while travelling through New Zealand and Australia as a Hypno-therapist with colorful letters to his family of his tales as a hypnotist and the weirdness it attracts.

His early years in Toronto were filled with aspirations of the 60’s Yorkville music scene, and as a drummer in numerous bands led to a short lived career playing the bars and clubs in the Toronto area. The band Photograph, signed to a recording studio, made some noise on the coast to coast CBC radio show, the Entertainers. In 1973 the band worked with Canadian artist & producer Tony Kosinec, (All Things Come From God), and after legal issues strangled them into submission, they went their separate ways.

The band members were George Szabo and Stan Meissner, (Stan later wrote for Céline Dion, LeeAnn Womack, Eddie Money, Rita Coolidge, BJ Thomas, Ben Orr (The Cars), Triumph and Toronto). The life of drugs, sex and rock and roll were over, sad but true.

After a few years of travel, he had the bug, and entered the world of management consulting to become a road warrior, and is now a 2 million miler with Delta. Away from home and with the desire to write a novel it began. His first book, “Into the Basement,” is a raw, dark thriller, described as "juicy." His second novel of the Kim Bennett series, “Into the Spell,” explores the horror of a copy-cat Son of Sam killer and hypnosis. Early 2008, Norm contributed with a short story called “Jumpers,” into the horror anthology “From the Shadows.” In 2009, Norm developed the screenplay for his novel “Into the Basement,” with Nicholas Grabowsky and director J. L. Botelho of Triad Pictures.

In 2010 he released, Blood Bar, a vampire tale and wrote the screenplay for a short horror film, Grotto.