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The Problem Eliminators!
The author's description from Smashwords: An Action/Adventure story about a group of fictional retired military men, who hunt down Drug Lords & traitorous U.S. Government officials! Featuring the fantastic submarine, The Barracuda! Like Amer-I-Can James Bond’s, The Problem Eliminators! Strike without warning! Hard, fast & deadly!
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First published January 1, 2012
About the author
Steve Nelson
45 books4 followersSteve Nelson has been Head of School at the Calhoun School, on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, since 1998. Calhoun is one of America’s most notable progressive schools and serves 750 students, from pre-Kindergarten through 12th grade. Calhoun is particularly well regarded for its commitment to diversity and social justice.
Since 1997 Steve has been a columnist for the Valley News, the daily newspaper in the mid-VT/NH area on both sides of the Connecticut River. He has been a regular contributor to the Huffington Post since 2010, writing about education and politics. Before assuming his current position, he worked as an administrator at Vermont Law School and Landmark College. He is an avid violinist and also served for six years as President of a performing arts school in the Midwest.
Steve has competed in many marathons, triathlons, bicycle races and XC ski races, with steadily decreasing success. He now primarily races the grim reaper.
He is married to Wendy Nelson, has two children, Jennifer and Christopher, and three perfect grandchildren – Quinn, Maddie and Jack.
Since 1997 Steve has been a columnist for the Valley News, the daily newspaper in the mid-VT/NH area on both sides of the Connecticut River. He has been a regular contributor to the Huffington Post since 2010, writing about education and politics. Before assuming his current position, he worked as an administrator at Vermont Law School and Landmark College. He is an avid violinist and also served for six years as President of a performing arts school in the Midwest.
Steve has competed in many marathons, triathlons, bicycle races and XC ski races, with steadily decreasing success. He now primarily races the grim reaper.
He is married to Wendy Nelson, has two children, Jennifer and Christopher, and three perfect grandchildren – Quinn, Maddie and Jack.
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March 10, 2012
I didn't entirely understand what happened, but there sure is a lot of action! You can count on that! It is an Action Story! Plus there is a photograph of a real yacht, drawings of pretty girls, and no profanity.
Favorite Quote:
Favorite Quote:
"We cast off from the Yacht and drifted back several hundred yards into the darkness, and then headed for The Barracuda. Just about as we arrived at our ship, The Yacht exploded! KA- BLAM!!! A Fire Ball shot into the night and more explosions sounded off in succession! The mines and other toys were going up fast! What a show it was! We all had great seats too!
The Aft section of the Yacht was blown into itty bitty bits from all those Sub for Santa toys in the after hold. What was left of the forward section of the Yacht sank rather quickly. Not even what was left of their money could keep them afloat!"
September 5, 2012
No, just no. Simply awful.
Our story begins with a lengthy, ineffective description of the protagonist sneaking through a yacht. He takes measurements of the boat, writes them down, sneaks some more, spies on people snorting cocaine and having sex (!?), whispers to himself a bit, more sneaking, and then comes across a bound and gagged girl behind a mysterious door. Gary Stu (The name of the protagonist hasn't yet been stated, and he reeks of Stu-dom so that is what he shall be called) pulls a hypodermic needle from his emergency medical kit, knocks her out (with a tranquilizer called K14 {Really?}), renders guards unconscious with a single punch, and smuggles her out without a hitch.
Chapter 2 begins, and we still don't know what Gary Stu's real name is, nor have we seen a single shred of dialogue other than him talking to himself. Instead, we have a massive infodump, an author-drawn illustration of a character that makes me want to cross the street if ever I meet him (read: creeper), and he isn't even the protagonist. No, we get an illustration of..."Captain Norman Mitchell". Eventually, we find ourselves introduced to the protagonist himself: Dave "The Dude" Wilson. Apparently, he has gone through a tragedy (which is never gone into), resulting in his having "almost lost it". We get another two pages worth of infodump, before randomly changing scenes to an incident "several years ago" concerning the naming of the ship. Who cares! When I read a book, I read it for its plot and characters --- not a list of all the possible names a stupid submarine might have had.
With the arrival of chapter 3, we finally witness some dialogue. Unfortunately, the dialogue we see mostly consists of instructions issued to the crew by the captain.
In Chapter 4, Dave addresses the audience directly, stating that the reason he is writing this book is because he thinks "...it might make a swell book someday." He then goes on, in an incredibly vague manner, to describe some sort of delivery service, returning former captives of drug lords to friendly ports. I get it now! These people are a part of a secret human trafficking ring! Because, as far as I know, dumping a sedated person off at a port in a country other than their place of residence counts as human trafficking; not to mention the fact that these victims carry no identification whatsoever.
I think I've said my piece. The book is a boring infodump, filled with descriptions of things that add nothing to the plot whatsoever, there is no character development (even our protagonist is a stock Gary Stu), there is hardly any dialogue (what little there is consists largely of more infodump, in the form of instructions and "as you know, Bobs"), and is obviously very poorly researched. Really, the book is so bad it's spork-worthy.
Our story begins with a lengthy, ineffective description of the protagonist sneaking through a yacht. He takes measurements of the boat, writes them down, sneaks some more, spies on people snorting cocaine and having sex (!?), whispers to himself a bit, more sneaking, and then comes across a bound and gagged girl behind a mysterious door. Gary Stu (The name of the protagonist hasn't yet been stated, and he reeks of Stu-dom so that is what he shall be called) pulls a hypodermic needle from his emergency medical kit, knocks her out (with a tranquilizer called K14 {Really?}), renders guards unconscious with a single punch, and smuggles her out without a hitch.
Chapter 2 begins, and we still don't know what Gary Stu's real name is, nor have we seen a single shred of dialogue other than him talking to himself. Instead, we have a massive infodump, an author-drawn illustration of a character that makes me want to cross the street if ever I meet him (read: creeper), and he isn't even the protagonist. No, we get an illustration of..."Captain Norman Mitchell". Eventually, we find ourselves introduced to the protagonist himself: Dave "The Dude" Wilson. Apparently, he has gone through a tragedy (which is never gone into), resulting in his having "almost lost it". We get another two pages worth of infodump, before randomly changing scenes to an incident "several years ago" concerning the naming of the ship. Who cares! When I read a book, I read it for its plot and characters --- not a list of all the possible names a stupid submarine might have had.
With the arrival of chapter 3, we finally witness some dialogue. Unfortunately, the dialogue we see mostly consists of instructions issued to the crew by the captain.
In Chapter 4, Dave addresses the audience directly, stating that the reason he is writing this book is because he thinks "...it might make a swell book someday." He then goes on, in an incredibly vague manner, to describe some sort of delivery service, returning former captives of drug lords to friendly ports. I get it now! These people are a part of a secret human trafficking ring! Because, as far as I know, dumping a sedated person off at a port in a country other than their place of residence counts as human trafficking; not to mention the fact that these victims carry no identification whatsoever.
I think I've said my piece. The book is a boring infodump, filled with descriptions of things that add nothing to the plot whatsoever, there is no character development (even our protagonist is a stock Gary Stu), there is hardly any dialogue (what little there is consists largely of more infodump, in the form of instructions and "as you know, Bobs"), and is obviously very poorly researched. Really, the book is so bad it's spork-worthy.
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