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Sacrifice
In a secret underground lab near Washington, D.C., Pink Pinkerton concocts a drug that can save humanity from itself. Intended as a better erectile dysfunction remedy, one that enlarges our imagination along with everything else, Pink's formula also tames our lizard brain, quieting the baneful appetites and fears that make millionaires of clever salesmen who make billionaires of their sociopathic clients, who understandably want Pink dead and his formula uninvented. Satire? Absolutely.. Yet, so plausible, with characters so believable the narrative pulses with mystery and suspense. Pink figures powerful corporations believe his miracle potion will ruin the world economy by making people so happy and enlightened they'll quit starting wars and spending money on things they don't need. After his beautiful lab partner, Gladys Alabi, disappears, he hits the road to find her and soon finds himself on the run from deadly mercenaries. Friends assisting him include a Secret Service agent and a former White House official. A chance alliance with an Internet hacker ring keeps Pink and his friends one step ahead of disaster as they seek to identify the enemy and rescue Gladys.
319 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 19, 2012
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January 16, 2016
Dollycas 19s Thoughts
I love featuring Wisconsin authors. This book was written by a man from my home town. We never met, I have heard he graduated from high school the year before I was born. :) A friend recommended this book to me and I am glad she did. I just wish she would have told me about the book he wrote before it. Truthfully I didn 19t know it existed until I started writing this review so you know not reading it first did not deter me from enjoying this story.
Wouldn 19t it be great if there really was a pill we could take to make people happy and enlightened? A pill that would make people matter more than the almighty dollar? It sounds wonderful but as the characters in this book found out it sure isn 19t easy and it does have a BIG side effect.
The author takes on some heavy topics but writes in such a way that twists them so they keep their importance but feel much lighter. The character is conversing with the reader his through blog entries, narrating the action, sharing his personal thoughts, with a good bit of sarcasm.
Alfred (Al) Pierce Geddies III takes us quite an adventure from prison to 1CThe Cottage 1D and out into a dark woods. He goes from being the Former White House Chief of Staff to Special Congressional Prosecutor to Penitentiary Inmate #76490263478 to lab rat and how it happened will keep you glued to these pages.
Sometimes the timelines blurred a bit for me as in places. I don 19t want to give any of the story away but at one point Geddies states something took 1Cnearly 3 weeks 1D and then later he states they had been missing 1Calmost a week 1D. In an operation such as the one that takes place I believe the shorter time span to be correct and that maybe it was a typo and the author meant 3 days not 3 weeks. This mistake is not relevant enough to downgrade my review. I found the story quite riveting.
If you are looking for a truly different kind of read, this is it. This story was not what I expected at all, but I truly escaped right into it. I have Matt Paust to thank for my recent book hangover.
August 25, 2014
Dollycas’s Thoughts
I love featuring Wisconsin authors. This book was written by a man from my home town. We never met, I have heard he graduated from high school the year before I was born. :) A friend recommended this book to me and I am glad she did. I just wish she would have told me about the book he wrote before it. Truthfully I didn’t know it existed until I started writing this review so you know not reading it first did not deter me from enjoying this story.
Wouldn’t it be great if there really was a pill we could take to make people happy and enlightened? A pill that would make people matter more than the almighty dollar? It sounds wonderful but as the characters in this book found out it sure isn’t easy and it does have a BIG side effect.
The author takes on some heavy topics but writes in such a way that twists them so they keep their importance but feel much lighter. The character is conversing with the reader his through blog entries, narrating the action, sharing his personal thoughts, with a good bit of sarcasm.
Alfred (Al) Pierce Geddies III takes us quite an adventure from prison to “The Cottage” and out into a dark woods. He goes from being the Former White House Chief of Staff to Special Congressional Prosecutor to Penitentiary Inmate #76490263478 to lab rat and how it happened will keep you glued to these pages.
Sometimes the timelines blurred a bit for me as in places. I don’t want to give any of the story away but at one point Geddies states something took “nearly 3 weeks” and then later he states they had been missing “almost a week”. In an operation such as the one that takes place I believe the shorter time span to be correct and that maybe it was a typo and the author meant 3 days not 3 weeks. This mistake is not relevant enough to downgrade my review. I found the story quite riveting.
If you are looking for a truly different kind of read, this is it. This story was not what I expected at all, but I truly escaped right into it. I have Matt Paust to thank for my recent book hangover.
August 30, 2013
Sacrifice is the sequel to Executive Pink, but I didn't realize when I picked this book as my introduction to Paust's work. He does drop in the necessary backstory as you go along, though, so it's possible to follow the storyline without reading the first.
Sacrifice is the story of a former special prosecutor who's been framed, sent to prison....and is offered an 'out' if he consents to be the test subject for a drug that may change the patterns of human thought worldwide. The drug also has positive sexual side effects, though, so many are viewing it as a cash cow rather than a way to save humanity from greed and war. Powerful people will do just about anything to stop the drug manufacturers from succeeding.
The story is written as a series of weblog entries from the main character, who has already taken the mind-altering drug which renders him more logical and more globally-minded. He's apparently in hiding even now as he recounts what happened during the drug's development. I found it interesting how his voice changes, where he has extraordinarily complex sentence structure and vocabulary while ruminating, and yet early on in the story he relates himself as still thinking and talking like an undrugged (normal) human.
I did find the plot a little difficult to follow in places, but during sequences when the story question was pretty much linear (ie, run for your life from the bad guys) it moved along at a nice clip. We also have some interesting characters like a recluse who's living in the woods off the grid...who turns out to be a lot more than just a maniac hermit, and a bitter doctor who's...well, he's a bitter doctor, but I liked him a lot because he reminded me of McCoy.
In the end, it was a fun read, and I'm glad to have enjoyed it.
Sacrifice is the story of a former special prosecutor who's been framed, sent to prison....and is offered an 'out' if he consents to be the test subject for a drug that may change the patterns of human thought worldwide. The drug also has positive sexual side effects, though, so many are viewing it as a cash cow rather than a way to save humanity from greed and war. Powerful people will do just about anything to stop the drug manufacturers from succeeding.
The story is written as a series of weblog entries from the main character, who has already taken the mind-altering drug which renders him more logical and more globally-minded. He's apparently in hiding even now as he recounts what happened during the drug's development. I found it interesting how his voice changes, where he has extraordinarily complex sentence structure and vocabulary while ruminating, and yet early on in the story he relates himself as still thinking and talking like an undrugged (normal) human.
I did find the plot a little difficult to follow in places, but during sequences when the story question was pretty much linear (ie, run for your life from the bad guys) it moved along at a nice clip. We also have some interesting characters like a recluse who's living in the woods off the grid...who turns out to be a lot more than just a maniac hermit, and a bitter doctor who's...well, he's a bitter doctor, but I liked him a lot because he reminded me of McCoy.
In the end, it was a fun read, and I'm glad to have enjoyed it.
June 24, 2013
An electronic copy of this book was sent to me as a reviewer for IndePENdants. It passed their rating system on all aspects.
This was an interesting story. I did not read the first book in the series "Executive Pink" first although in retrospect it would have made some of what happened in this book easier to understand. Perhaps if I had read the first book some of what I considered far fetched might not have seemed such a stretch. I won't spoil it, but the coincidence of finding the hogan the way they did and with it equipped as it was seemed just a bit too strained to believe. Once I got past that, however, everything related to it and is inhabitant worked for me.
It reads easily and smoothly. I read it in a single day and it would make a great book to read at the beach or on an airplane. I would have given it a five except for a couple of the plot devices that were just a little too convenient.
This was an interesting story. I did not read the first book in the series "Executive Pink" first although in retrospect it would have made some of what happened in this book easier to understand. Perhaps if I had read the first book some of what I considered far fetched might not have seemed such a stretch. I won't spoil it, but the coincidence of finding the hogan the way they did and with it equipped as it was seemed just a bit too strained to believe. Once I got past that, however, everything related to it and is inhabitant worked for me.
It reads easily and smoothly. I read it in a single day and it would make a great book to read at the beach or on an airplane. I would have given it a five except for a couple of the plot devices that were just a little too convenient.
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