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Not What It Seems: Masques
JP Thorson raises the bar in this military-crime thriller, “Not what it Masques” which includes 19 illustrations.
Chuck Shotzski shunned his Ivy League offers to the dismay of his stepdad, a University of Northern Iowa professor and his West High teachers. Instead, the teenage prodigy graduated early and enlisted in the army underage, weaving a cover story that he would be working in forestry.
Almost a year into his tour, the vetted soldier has experienced the horrors of Vietnam, almost perishing in combat and barely escaping the jaws of a legendary creature. He befriends a fellow infantryman, Sergeant Rufus Hernandez, who reveals his own harrowing tale while they are recovering in a military hospital.
Chuck’s Grandpa Carlton begins to send the former Golden Glove’s boxer newspaper clippings of a serial criminal known as the Creeper. Shotzski hopes to obtain a degree in criminology if he is able to escape the snake-infested jungles of Nam. The wannabe cop is also tracking the Creeper from afar, tipping the Waterloo police of the psycho’s patterns.
Shotz meets a lovely Vietnamese woman and he begins dreaming of bringing her home. The teenage sleuth knows he must first target the tangible evil before the Creeper stalks more victims in northeast Iowa.
Chuck Shotzski shunned his Ivy League offers to the dismay of his stepdad, a University of Northern Iowa professor and his West High teachers. Instead, the teenage prodigy graduated early and enlisted in the army underage, weaving a cover story that he would be working in forestry.
Almost a year into his tour, the vetted soldier has experienced the horrors of Vietnam, almost perishing in combat and barely escaping the jaws of a legendary creature. He befriends a fellow infantryman, Sergeant Rufus Hernandez, who reveals his own harrowing tale while they are recovering in a military hospital.
Chuck’s Grandpa Carlton begins to send the former Golden Glove’s boxer newspaper clippings of a serial criminal known as the Creeper. Shotzski hopes to obtain a degree in criminology if he is able to escape the snake-infested jungles of Nam. The wannabe cop is also tracking the Creeper from afar, tipping the Waterloo police of the psycho’s patterns.
Shotz meets a lovely Vietnamese woman and he begins dreaming of bringing her home. The teenage sleuth knows he must first target the tangible evil before the Creeper stalks more victims in northeast Iowa.
301 pages, Hardcover
Published November 26, 2022
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